British Library Journal (volume 5, number 1, spring 1979)

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A side-light on Panizzi in the letters of Prosper Mérimée
(1979-04)
Brodhurst, Audrey C.
THIS is an attempt to break into a patch of silence and a zone of half-light in the later years of Sir Anthony Panizzi. The silence and obscurity are the result of a historical accident. The bulk of Panizzi's papers and correspondence has been preserved - it is available now to students, either in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Library or in other collections - but there was an illuminating exchange of letters, between Panizzi and the French writer Prosper Merimee, Panizzi's part in which has entirely disappeared. Only one of Panizzi's letters to Merimee has survived, in a copy retained by him. It is printed in Louis Fagan's biography The Life of Sir Anthony Panizzi (1880, vol, ii, pp. 218-20). All others must be presumed lost in the fire which destroyed Merimee's house in Paris in May 1871, during the street battles of the last days of the Paris Commune.
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Gladstone and Panizzi
(1979-04)
Foot, M. R. D.
THERE were several strands in Gladstone's relation with Panizzi, whom he came to call this very true, trusty, hearty friend. Panizzi made his English debut in the 1820s in Liverpool, where John Gladstone was a merchant prince, and he made it under the patronage of William Ewart the future Prime Minister's godfather; but at that time the young W. E. Gladstone was a boy at Eton, and there is no indication that he and Panizzi then met. They first encountered each other over official and literary business in the early 1840s, when Gladstone was a rising Tory politician and Panizzi - twelve years his senior was Keeper of Printed Books in the British Museum. Italian poetry drew them together, and they became closer still through the work they did - all of it arduous and some of it secret - for the benefit of victims of the Neapolitan police, in the 1850s. They then had several years' close official co-operation while Gladstone was a Museum Trustee and Panizzi was Principal Librarian. After Panizzi resigned, Gladstone was one of the friends with whom he kept in touch, and was a frequent visitor when Panizzi was ill.
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Department of Printed Books: acquisitions, Slavonic Division
(1979-04)
Chrastek, D. B.
Department of Printed Books: acquisitions, Slavonic Division.
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Notes on outside contributors
(1979-04)
Notes on outside contributors.
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From _The Times_, 30-1 July 1866
(1979-04)
British Library
A transcript of an exchange of two letters printed in The Times newspaper 30-31 July 1866. The first, from Sydney Smirke, asserts his role as architect of the circular Reading Room in the British Museum. The second, a reply from Antonio Panizzi, responds to the first letter.
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Department of Printed Books: German popular literature as seen in some recent antiquarian acquisitions
(1979-04)
Paisey, D. L.
Systematic acquisition of foreign literature for the British Museum library began in 1834 with regular Government funding, and, particularly under Panizzi, the attention paid to current material was extended also to supplementing the existing holdings of older books on as wide a scale as possible. His declared aim to make this the best library for foreign literature outside the countries concerned was to an extent achieved as an intellectual manifestation of British imperial dominance at its Victorian zenith. Under his direction, antiquarian purchasing, limited only by what came on to the market, was vigorously pursued, and so-called 'popular' literature was acquired as readily as the products of high culture, a necessary development in view of the fact that the foundation collections had represented overwhelmingly establishment interests. For literature, though mostly only for the literate, has from the beginnings of printing catered for various audiences, not merely for the ruling class and its clerical and scholarly servants. The other classes, as they joined and scaled the ladder of literacy, have had books directed at them, in accordance with what society at any time has seen as their needs, more particularly when they became a substantial market, and they also produced their own authors.
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Recent acquisitions: Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books: manuscript acquisitions 1974
(1979-04)
British Library
Recent acquisitions: Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books: manuscript acquisitions 1974.
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Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1965-1975: English Books 1701-1800
(1979-04)
Jannetta, M. J.
Department of Printed Books: acquisitions 1965-1975: English Books 1701-1800.
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Panizzi and Madden
(1979-04)
Borrie, Michael
IN a publication celebrating Antonio Panizzi's centenary, an article on his dealings with his mortal enemy, Sir Frederic Madden, the Keeper of Manuscripts, might seem to strike a jarring note. They nevertheless make a tale well worth the telling. The epic feud between these two great public servants is a fascinating, if unedifying, episode in the history of the British Museum. Panizzi's side has been told: Madden was a splenetic fuss-pot who obstructed him at every opportunity through jealousy and irrational hatred. Madden's version, set down in his diary- over thirty years, portrays Panizzi, 'the Italian dog' as a cunning, scheming charlatan consumed with personal ambition and malice towards himself. There is some truth in both these caricatures. Panizzi dealt with opposition like a mafioso, and Madden's dislike of him turned into an obsessive hatred that made his own life at the Museum a misery. But their relationship seems to have begun equably enough.
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Some hitherto unpublished Panizziana from Italy
(1979-04)
Reidy, Denis V.
THE municipal library in the quiet and elegant city of Reggio Emilia is a hitherto unexplored treasure house of unpublished Panizzi material. It was at Reggio that Antonio Panizzi spent four years at the ginnasio and met Gaetano Fratuzzi, the retired Professor of Rhetoric and librarian at that library, who first introduced him to what would turn out to be his life's work. In contrast to those Italian libraries that are named after a local illustrissimo, even though they do not possess any document by or about him, the Biblioteca Municipale A. Panizzi contains a wealth of Panizziana, ranging from a school essay in Panizzi's hand, the only surviving example of Panizzian juvenilia, to Panizzi's personal papers from his British Museum days which are for the most part in manuscript. Some of these Panizziana include original alternative plans for the British Museum Reading Room proposed by Panizzi and the architect Sydney Smirke, manuscript memos from Panizzi and George Baker - one of the building contractors - concerning points of construction and design of the Reading Room, proofs of the invitations to the breakfast to celebrate the opening on 2 May 1857, Panizzi's evidence before the Select Committee on Building (in manuscript), letters to Panizzi from Gladstone, Disraeli, Palmerston, and other important figures of the day, and Panizzi's personal scrap-book which contains cuttings from newspapers and other publications in which views, opinions and criticisms of the Reading Room are expressed.
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British Library Journal (volume 5, number 1, spring 1979)

British Library Journal (volume 5, number 1, spring 1979)

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