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Marco Besso, scholar and bibliophile, clearly emerges from the presentation he himself makes of Riccardo De Bury's Philobiblon, a work he offered in 1914 in Trieste, his hometown:

“ I love to present to the Italian public, in the following pages, the nestor of bibliophiles, the author of the oldest treatise on bibliophilia, which has come down to us. This is Richard de Bury, Chancellor of Edward the Third and bishop of Durham, the most famous of the ancient episcopal see of England. There, in the last years of his life, de Bury wrote the treatise of which, closing the prologue, he says: Placuit nobis more veterum Latinorum Braeco vocabulo Philobiblon Amabiliter nuncupare. I felt encouraged and almost authorized to this presentation, not because I think I measure myself against such a conspicuous character, nor because I believe myself to be up to the office, but because I feel I have intense and constant love with de Bury in common. of the book, love that accompanies me, as it accompanied him from dawn to dusk of life; because I too, in my long and semisecular wanderings, within and outside the borders of my country, always had the first and greatest care for the sarcinualae librorum that have followed me everywhere. This spiritual company o

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