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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies -----Original Message----- The 2004 Panizzi Lectures at the British Library The Polished Cornestones of the Temple: Queenly Libraries of the Enlightenment The main focus is Spain and England, but there must be some coverage of Italian books and the topic may be of interest to italian-studies members. The Panizzi lectures are published by British Library Publications. The aim is to publish within a year of the lecture series. In addition the Panizzi Lectures are recorded by the BL Sound Archive; anyone wishing to consult the audio recordings of the 2003 Lectures and the forthcoming 2004 Lectures should contact Jamie Andrews, Curator of Drama and Literature, Sound Archive ( <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]). ******************** The 2004 Panizzi Lectures at the British Library The Polished Cornerstones of the Temple: Queenly Libraries of the Enlightenment A Series of Three Lectures by Maria Luisa López-Vidriero Monday 22 November: A Weakness for Reading: Heavy Books in Light Hands. Monday 29 November: Libraries Under the Philosophical Eye: Caroline of Ansbach and Elizabeth Farnese. Monday 6 December: Towards a Female Literary Canon. This series of lectures looks at the impact of women's educational projects on female reading and book collecting in the royal courts of the eighteenth century. Monarchs are international figures who also provide a behaviour-model for their national subjects; so they give us an excellent standpoint from which to study particular national patterns within the wider context of European written culture. A database of over six thousand bibliographical records has been compiled from the handwritten catalogues and inventories of the libraries of Spanish and English queens, princesses and infantas. The main part of the study is devoted to two queens: Caroline of Ansbach (1638-1727), wife of George II, and Elizabeth Farnese (1692-1766), wife of Philip V. By comparing and contrasting these two great collections we can attempt to move beyond Protestant-Catholic intellectual and religious differences and begin to define a European eighteenth-century female literary canon. Maria Luisa López-Vidriero is the Director of the Royal Library in Madrid. She is also co-Director of the Institute for the History of the Book and Reading in Salamanca, and has published widely in this field. The lectures are at 6:15pm in the Conference Centre at the British Library. Tickets are available from the British Library Box Office, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB. Tel: (020) 7412 7222. Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> . Admission free. ************************************************************************** Experience the British Library online at www.bl.uk Help the British Library conserve the world's knowledge. Adopt a Book. www.bl.uk/adoptabook ************************************************************************** ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html