FUMAGALLI, GIUSEPPE. - Bibliographer, b. in Firenze on 27 July 1863, d. there on 11 May 1939. He directed the Biblioteca Braidense in Milano, the Estense in Modena, and the University of Bologna; he founded the Istituto italiano del libro and was among the promoters of the Società bibliografica italiana.
His principal works are: Bibliotheca bibliographica italica (written in collaboration with G. Ottino; Roma 1889 and 1895); Lexicon typographicum Italiae (Firenze 1905; the work is still useful today, but lacks scholarly rigor and contains certain defects, notwithstanding the Giunte e correzioni, published in Firenze in 1939; it is now supplemented by M. Parenti, Nuova giunta al Lexicon, etc., Milano 1941, and id., Seconda giunta, Firenze 1949); Bibliografia (Milano 1916; a complete reworking of G. Ottino’s manual of bibliography; 4th ed. edited by O. Pinto, ibid. 1935).