Giovan Pietro Vieusseux, Saint Bernard and the Florentine Typography

Desideri, Laura Giovan Pietro Vieusseux, Saint Bernard and the Florentine Typography. JLIS.it, 2021, vol. 12, n. 1, pp. 73-81. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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English abstract

Quando Giovan Pietro Vieusseux dirigeva il Gabinetto di lettura scientifico letterario, inaugurato a Firenze nel 1820, il 20 agosto di ogni anno gli stampatori usavano festeggiare il loro patrono, S. Bernardo abate, con un componimento indirizzato ai propri clienti. Prima la tipografia Pezzati, che stampa l’Antologia fino alla soppressione (1833), e dal 1835 la Galileiana, dai cui torchi escono il Giornale agrario toscano, la Guida dell’educatore e altre pubblicazioni promosse da Vieusseux, hanno offerto al ginevrino i loro componimenti, stampati in plaquettes di poche pagine, difficili da rintracciare. Qui si esaminano i “S. Bernardo” ritrovati.

English abstract

This article addresses an old Florentine tradition which goes back to the first half of the 19th century, when Giovan Pietro Vieusseux was the director of his famous Gabinetto Scientifico e Letterario in Florence: every year, on the 20th of August, the book printers used to celebrate their patron saint, St. Bernard, by offering to their customers a gift booklet containing a short prose or poem. As a publisher of Antologia, J.P. Vieusseux received this gift by the printing house Pezzati until the suppression of the periodical (1833). In 1835, the tradition resumed with the Galileana, which printed the Giornale agrario toscano, Guida dell’educatore, and other works published by initiative of J.P. Vieusseux. These gift booklets, known as “St Bernardo’s”, are hard to trace today. Here we examine few “St. Bernardo’s” item, that we have been able to find.