Emanuele Casamassima palaeographer and book historian

This paper aims to present a brief overview on Emanuele Casamassima and his research on palaeography and the history of the book. The following topics are discussed: 1) cataloguing manuscripts according to different models (analytical, short, shared descriptions); 2) restoration of manuscript and printed books, 3) palaeographic doctrines from the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance, 4) importance of sixteenth-century Italian writing masters for the study of the history of handwriting; 5) aspects of the history of the handwriting in the late Middle Ages (the writing of Petrarch and Boccaccio; the humanistic graphic reform); 6) palaeography as a study of graphic structures, with a focus on the cursive tradition, especially during the Roman age (1st-4th centuries) and in the Middle Ages (10th-13th centuries). [Publisher's Text]