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PETER J. A. N. RIETBERGEN Lucas Holstenius (1596-1661), seventeenth-century scholar, librarian and book-collector. A preliminary note 'La cupidigia d'haver molti libri è una infermità che si porte seco sino all'ultimo periodo' This, to many of the readers of this journal eminent, not to say self-evident truth, was uttered by Lucas Holste, according to one of his many learned and bibliophile correspondents, Luca Torreggiani, archbishop of Ravenna, who sought his friend's advice when he planned to create a library of his own.' I The seventeenth century produced many learned men who, through the sheer bulk of their correspondence, the vast extent of their erudite contact, the weightiness of the many tomes they have left-published or still in manuscript-remain essentially unstudied and thus actually escape from the grip of our knowledge of the Respublica Litteraria, of the world of the Vir- tuosi, though, of course, the mere mention of their names elicits an 'oh, yes' from the listener and reader. Men like Gisbert Cuper (1644-1716), the Dutch antiquary, polymath, university professor and burgomaster, the cor- respondent of so many European scholars and literati; men like Leone Allacci (1586-1669), the Greek-born Byzantinist, physician, theologian and librarian; men like Nicholas Claude Fabri
Quaerendo – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1987
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