Abstract
As Christian Bec reminds one in his work on Florentine reading, until a short time ago Italian study of books oscillated between two opposing tendencies: that of considering the to be exclusively an individual work of art, and thus examining it in its internal and proper characteristics (typically the tendency of literary study); and that of considering the mostly on its external characteristics in a bibliological way or as a bibliophile. A merit of scholars like Bec is in having underlined the importance of the as an instrument of cultural circulation, as an instrument for knowing the mental and intellectual milieu of a society, and of having tried to establish, even for Italy, and particularly for Florence, the methodological instruments that would permit undertaking a study of the circulation of the book based on quantitative information.Keywords: bibliophile; Christian Bec; Cicero; Florence; Italy; literary study; Virgil
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