FUMAGALLI, GIUSEPPE. - Bibliographer, b. in Florence on 27 July 1863, d. there on 11 May 1939. He directed the Braidense Library in Milan, the Estense in Modena, and the University of Bologna; he founded the Italian Book Institute and was among the patrons of the Italian Bibliographical Society.

His principal works are: Bibliotheca bibliographica italica (written in collaboration with G. Ottino; Rome 1889 and 1895); Lexicon typographicum Italiae (Florence 1905; the work is still useful today, but it lacks scientific rigor and presents some defects, despite the Giunte e correzioni, published in Florence in 1939; today it is completed by M. Parenti, Nuova giunta al Lexicon, etc., Milan 1941, and id., Seconda giunta, Florence 1949); Bibliografia (Milan 1916; a complete reworking of G. Ottino's bibliography manual; 4th ed. edited by O. Pinto, ibid. 1935).

Bibliography5 works

BIBL.: Bibliografia delle opere in N. Vian, G. F.: Bibliografia, Florence 1940. - G. Avaszi, G. F. bibliografo, in Il libro italiano, 3 (1939), pp. 351-59; D. Fava, G. F. e l'opera sua, in Accad. e biblioteche d'Italia, 14 (1940), pp. 154-55; A. Sorbelli, G. F., in Il risorgimento grafico, 37 (1940-41), pp. 177-81; M. Armanni, G. F. bibliofilo, ibid., pp. 269-72; A. Boselli, G. F. bibliografo, ibid., pp. 207-303.

Alessandro Pratesi

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