Essay On Bibliography And On the Attainments of a Librarian
Essay On Bibliography And On the Attainments of a Librarian
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(22) The revolution produced in bibliography at the end of the ages of ignorance by the wonderful invention of Gutenberg increases the labors of the director while making them easier. Step by step, he follows the literary generations that rapidly succeed one another. Bessarion, Antony of Palermo, Juvenal des Ursins, and Villon open for him this great vista. Then he sees the entry of Agricola, Boiardo, Politian; and, following in their steps, bringing the fifteenth century to its close, Calepino..., Christopher Colum- bus, Philippe de Comines, Despautère, Saint-Gelais, Joseph Pontano, and Pomponazzi the sceptic. What joys the succeeding century offers him! What a harvest for his memories ! What precious monuments for his bibliographical shelves ! What radiance does the century of Frances I and Leo X shed abroad in the world ! Three periods or generations compose this cen- tury of resuscitated learning : the period of Francis I, that of Henry II, and that of Henry IV. During the first period, Paracelsus, Erasmus, Agrippa, appear in philosophy; Ariosto, Bembo, Marot, Sannazaro, in poetry ; Guillaume du Bellay, Macchiavelli, Thomas More, in politics ; Copernicus, Fernando Cortez, Ferdinand Magellan, in scientific discovery; Mantegna, Raphael, in the arts; and Guicciardini, Aldus Manutius, Paulus ^milius and Polydore Virgil, in history.
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