Formats represented include: pamphlets, libretti, clippings, newspapers, scores, manuscript items, small cards, periodicals, small volumes, broadsides (some very large), epithalamia (pieces produced on the occasion of a wedding), and one photo album. The bulk of the material, chiefly in the Italian language, dates from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. The Guido Mazzoni Pamphlet Collection spans the years 1572 through 1946, with approximately 46,825 pieces in the collection. As Guido Mazzoni was the protegé of Giosué Carducci, that poet is most well-represented also, as Mazzoni was one of the leading Dante scholars in Italy of his time, materials on Dante Alighieri and his works number in the thousands. The literary, political, and scientific individuals represented by the collection are too numerous to mention in this introduction, but more detailed information can be found under the section for each subject area listed in this guide. Smaller but rich subject collections relate to Italian education social life and customs in Italy archaeology music, especially opera and popular music art history and religious history. The largest and most developed subject areas, with thousands of pamphlets in each series, relate to Italian history from the inception of population on the Italian peninsula through the early 1940s, with emphasis on the 18th and 19th centuries Italian language and literature from its earliest manifestations through the 1930s Italian and European politics, ranging from the Etruscans to the rise of Fascism in the 1930s and biographical works on Italian notables. There are also some publications in Greek, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, and Eastern European languages. About 80 percent of the material is in the Italian language: other common languages include Latin, French, English, German. There are many illustrated publications, fine engravings, woodcuts, and items with map inserts. Formats represented in the collection include: pamphlets, offprints, clippings, full-issue newspapers (many from the Piedmont), libretti, scores, manuscript items, small cards, periodicals, small volumes, political broadsides, epithalamia (pieces produced on the occasion of a wedding), and one handmade photo album. Mazzoni collected many rare pieces from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries broadsides from Napoleonic, Medicean, and Borbonic Italian regions are numerous.
Many of the pieces were sent to Mazzoni from former students or colleagues and are inscribed to him. Given Mazzoni's background in academics, his friendships with publishers, and his residence in Padova and Firenze, many of the authors are Jewish. Popular literary and cultural serials abound, many with writings by noted authors, including women writers. Topics range widely and include Italian politics, particularly the rise of Socialism and Fascism Italian humanities, especially poetry, theater, and opera Dante studies patriotic writings, including some by Mussolini and others in his regime and the history and context of both World Wars.
The approximately 49,648 pieces span the years 1572 through 1946, with the bulk dating from the mid-18th to the early 20th centuries. This collection of print materials, many of them rare and ephemeral, was assembled over many decades by Guido Mazzoni, an Italian Senator, Dante scholar, professor, and bibliophile.
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