PAST SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
THE 2007 HAMMER LECTURES
The King Library Press Department of Special Collections University of Kentucky Libraries cordially invites you to attend two presentations on the book arts
Andrea Mantegna and the Book in the Early Renaissance Dott. Gino Castiglioni
Foreign Private Press Printers in 20th-Century Italy Sig. Alessandro Corubolo
THE GREAT HALL Margaret I. King Library Friday, 20 April 2007/ 7:30 P.M. — Free & Open to All —
Dott. Gino Castiglioni
is a bibliographical scholar and has published
several studies on illuminated manuscripts
of the Italian Renaissance.
Sig. Alessandro Corubolo
is a scholar of Italian publishing and typography
and has published in the fields of 17th and 18th
century engraving, typography/ and book design.
Both study modern art and typography and have written extensively on private presses and have organized exhibitions of fine books. They both give classes on these subjects at the University of Verona.
Working with an Amos dell'Orto hand press, made at Monza in 1855, these two printers have produced forty-six volumes, chiefly of poetry, illustrated by Italian artists. Their work has been exhibited in Milan and Bassano and at the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach. In America, their work has been seen in New York (Cooper Union) as well as in university libraries in Seattle, Eugene, San Francisco, Reno, and Salt Lake City.
At their Officina Chimèrea in Verona, they have published works of T. S. Eliot, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Kerouac, Frank O Hara, Stephen Spender and James Joyce.