Catalogues of funds

Catalogues of funds

 

Musical Scores from the Risorgimento to the First World War: 1846-1919, Rome, Fratelli Palombi, 1978, 125 p., (out of print). Frontespizio
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Introduction Section I: 1846-1860
Introduction Section II: 1861-1900
Introduction Section III: 1905-1919 Catalogue-repertory of one of the most unique collections held by the library, consisting of 470 scores of popular music of a patriotic nature (songs, hymns, military marches, songs of occasion).
Carlo Cattaneo e l’Archivio Triennale negli opuscoli della Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea, Rome, Fratelli Palombi, 1982, 141 p., (out of print). Frontespizio Index The fonds studied here consist of much of the printed material collected by Carlo Cattaneo, exiled in Lugano, to create a Triennial Archive of Things Italian from the advent of Pius IX to the fall of Venice.

Periodici italiani 1914 – 1919, edited by Maria Lucia Cavallo and Ettore Tanzarella, Rome, Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea, 1989, 211 p., (out of print).

Frontespizio
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Prefazione

The printed catalogue of the Italian-language periodicals from the First World War held by the Library aims to promote knowledge of a particularly significant collection by updating Walter Maturi’s study.

Periodici dei secoli XVIII e XIX, edited by Adriana Martinoli, Rome, Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea, 1989, 376 p., (fuori commercio). Frontespizio Index The printed catalogue of the important collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century periodicals owned by the Library, one of the most comprehensive collections of journalism of the period in Italy.
A Nation to Regenerate. Catalogue of Italian Editions 1789-1799, edited by Valeria Cremona, Rosanna De Longis, Lauro Ross i, Naples, Vivarium, 1994, 492 p. (in trade). Frontespizio
Index The valuable collection of Italian printed works on political subjects from the last decade of the 18th century, the initial nucleus of the Risorgimento Section of the National Library from which the Library of Modern and Contemporary History originated.
Effemeridi patriottiche: editoria d’occasione e mito del Risorgimento nell’Italia unita (1860-1900). Bibliography essay, edited by Fabrizio Dolci, Rome, Library of Modern and Contemporary History, 1994, XXIX, 257 p., (out of print). Frontespizio
Index The ‘myth of the Risorgimento’ through the ephemeral and occasional publications (for civil solemnities, royal genetliacs, etc.) tracked down with meticulous research in the Library’s important Risorgimento collection.
Illustrated Posters of the Great War, edited by Marzia Miele and Cesarina Vighy, Rome, Fratelli Palombi, 1997, 115 p., (in trade). Frontespizio Indice Introductory essays The volume reproduces, entirely in colour, the collection of illustrated posters relating mainly to war loans from the First World War held by the Library.
Stefano Lecchi. A Photographer and the Roman Republic of 1849, edited by Maria Pia Critelli, Rome, Retablo, 2001, 167 p., (in trade). Frontespizio
Index Lecchi produced the first war reportage. The Library possesses his precious photographs depicting places in Rome or related to the defence of the Roman Republic of 1849, which constitute a very rare visual documentation of the siege that had just ended.
Non Omnis Moriar Gli opuscoli di necrologio per i caduti italiani nella Grande Guerra Bibliografia analitica, a cura di Fabrizio Dolci e Olivier Janz.Rome, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2003, 317 p., (in trade). Index
Bibliography
List of acronyms Over 2300 obituary publications edited mainly by relatives and friends for Italian fallen soldiers in the Great War are surveyed and analytically described in this volume. A very important and little-known documentary genre of which the library is particularly rich.