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PAUL F. GEHL Curriculum Vitae

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS: 1987- Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of , The Newberry , 1984-87 Associate Director of Research and Education, The 1981-84 Assistant Director of Research and Education, The Newberry Library 1979-81 Visiting Lecturer in Christianity, Dept. of the History and Literature of Religions, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 1978-81 Assistant Director, Religion and Ethics Institute, Inc., Evanston, Illinois

EDUCATION: 1976 Ph.D. (History), University of Chicago 1972 M.A. (History), University of Chicago 1971 A.B. Classics (History major), John Carroll University

FELLOWSHIPS: Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti (1993-94) Newberry Library/British Academy Exchange (1989) American Council of Learned Societies (1987-88) American Academy in (1977-78)

BOOKS: A Moral Art: Grammar, Culture and Society in . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. A Meditation in Rome . New York: Russell Maret, 2012.

ONLINE : Humanism For Sale. Making and Marketing School in , 1450-1650. Published by the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies, 2009: www.humanismforsale.org/text

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES: “A Libertine in Print (and Not): Bibliographizing Pietro Lasena,” La Bibliofilía 115 (2013), 105- 111. “Advertising or Fama ? Local Markets for Schoolbooks in Sixteenth-Century Italy.” In Print Culture and Peripheries in Early Modern Europe: A Contribution to the in Small European and Spanish Cities . Edited by Benito Rial-Costas. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. 69-99. Co-authored with Kevin M. Stevens, “Cheap Print: A Look Inside the Lucini/Sirtori Stationery Shop at (1597-1613), La Bibliofilía 112 (2010), 281-327. “The Calligraphic Tradition in Chicago Graphic Design, 1900-1950,” Bibliología 5 (2010), 127-163. “Off the Press and Into the Classroom: Using the of Antonio Mancinelli,” History of Education and Children's Literature 3 (2008), 19-30.

“The Maiuscole Moderne of Giovambaptista Verini Fiorentino: From Music Texts to Calligraphic Musicality,” In Writing Relations, American Scholars in Italian , Essays for Franca Petruci Nardelli and Armando Petrucci . Edited by Deanna Shemek and Michael Wyatt. Florence: Olschki, 2008. Pp. 41-70. “Grammatica Despauteriana : L’adattamento di libri di testo provenienti dal Nord Europa per il mercato editoriale italiano, 1540-1600,” Bibliología 3 (2008), 51-69. “Moral Analogies in Print: Emblematic Thinking in the Making of Early Modern Books,” Philosophica 70 (2002, but 2004), 91-107. [Special issue, Diagrams and the Anthropology of Space , edited by Kenneth J. Knoespel.] “Religion and Politics in the Market for Books: The Jesuits and Their Rivals,” Papers of the of America 97 (2003), 435-460. Co-authored with Kevin M. Stevens, “The Eye of Commerce: Visual Among the Makers of .” In The Art Market in Italy . Edited by Sara Matthews Grieco. : Istituto di Studi Rinascimentali, 2003. Pp. 273-281. “La storia dei tipi può essere una buona storia?” Progetto grafico 1 (July 2003), 34-38. This talk, to ATypIRoma 2002, was republished in the original English as a small book under the title A Meditation in Rome , 2012 (see above). “Latin Orthopraxes.” In Latin Grammar and Rhetoric in the Middle Ages . Edited by Carol Dana Lanham. London: Continuum, 2002. Pp.1-21. “Military Courtesy in Sixteenth-Century Lithuania: Il Cavaliere of Domenico Mora,” Archivum Lithuanicum 3 (2001), 55-76. “’Mancha uno alfabeto intero’: Recording Defective Book Shipments in Counter-Reformation Florence,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 93(1999), 316-358.

“Day-by-day on Credit: Binders and Book Sellers in Florence,” La Bibliofilía 100 (1998), 391-409.

“Describing (and Selling) Bindings in Sixteenth-Century Florence,” Italian Studies 53 (1998), 38-51.

“Credit-Sales Strategies in the Late Cinquecento Book Trade.” In Libri tipografi biblioteche. Ricerche storiche dedicate a Luigi Balsamo . Edited by Arnaldo Ganda and E. Grignani. Florence: Olschki, 1997. Pp. 193-206.

“Libri per donne: le monache clienti del libraio Piero Morosi, 1588-1607.” In Donna e disciplina . Edited by Gabriella Zarri. Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1996. Pp. 67-82.

“The 1615 Statutes of the Sienese Guild of Stationers and Booksellers. Provincial in Early Modern Tuscany,” I Tatti Studies 6 (1995), 215-253.

“Preachers, Teachers and Translators: The Social Meaning of Latin in Trecento Tuscany,” in Viator 25 (1994), 289-323.

Co-authored with Kevin M. Stevens, “Giovanni Battista Bosso and the Paper Trade in Sixteenth- 2 Century Milan,” La Bibliofilía , 96 (1994), 43-90.

“Watermark Evidence for the Competitive Practices of Antonio Miscomini,” The Library , ser. 6, vol. 15 (1993), 281-305.

“An Augustinian Catechism from Fourteenth-Century Florence, the Epigrammata of Prosper of Aquitaine,” Augustinian Studies 19 (1990), 93-110.

“Latin Readers in Fourteenth-Century Florence: Schoolkids and their Books,” Scrittura e civiltà 13 (1989), 387-440.

“Competens silentium: Varieties of Monastic Silence in the Middle Ages,” Viator 18 (1987), 125-160.

“An Answering Silence: Medieval and Modern Claims for the Unity of Truth Beyond Language,” Philosophy Today (Fall 1986), 224-233.

“Philip of Harveng on Silence,” Proceedings of the Illinois Medieval Association 2 (1985), 168- 181. Partial text on-line at: www.luc.edu/publications/medieval/vol2/gehl.html.

“Mystical Language Models in Monastic Educational Psychology,” Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 14 (1984), 219-243.

“From Monastic Rhetoric to Ars Dictaminis : Traditionalism and Innovation in the Schools of Twelfth-Century Italy,” American Benedictine Review 34 (1983), 33-47.

“Some Problems in Cataloging Medieval Grammaticalia,” Res Publica Litterarum 5, 2(1982), 85-91.

“Apropos of Catalogue Notices and the History of Grammatical Pedagogy,” Revue d'Histoire des Texte s 8 (1978), 303-307.

PUBLISHED ESSAYS, TRANSLATIONS, PROJECTS:

“One Hundred Years of Poetry. Designing the Magazine, 1912-2012: A Detailed Look at Our Typographic History,” illustrated essay for the Poetry Foundation website, Fall 2012: www.poetryfoundation.org /article/244922#article

Various entries in The Newberry 125. Stories of Our . Chicago: The Newberry Library, 2012.

“Foreword,” to Jason Dewinetz, Alphabetum Romanum, The Letterforms of Felice Feliciano, ca. 1460, . Vernon, B.C.: Greenboathouse Press, 2010.

Various entries for the Oxford Companion to the Book . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 3

“Chicago Graphic Designers” (Talk to the and Society of Typographic Arts, October 17, 2007). Text and slides in preparation for online publication at: www.sta.org

“Celebrating Robert Williams,” Chicago Calligraphy Collective Newslettter , March 2007, 2-3.

“Norma Rubovits and Her Collection at the Newberry Library in Chicago,” Society of Marbling 2006 Annual , 21-24.

“The Newberry Alphabet: A Note on ,” Typography Papers 6 (2005), 17-18.

“Book Arts” and “Printing” entries for The . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 87-88 and 646-648. Full text with additional illustrations online at: encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org.

“Education” and “Universities” entries for Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia . Edited by Christopher Kleinhenz. New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. 313-315 and 1107-1109.

“The Making of a Chicago Eccentric,” foreword to John Mansir Wing, The Chicago Diaries of John M. Wing, 1865-1866 , ed. by Robert Williams. Carbondale and Chicago: Southern Illinois University Press and the Caxton Club of Chicago, 2002. Pp. ix-xiii.

Guest editor, history of design issue of InForm (quarterly journal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts / Chicago ), September 2001.

“Florence in Chicago,” in Chicago Calligraphy Collective Letter , Winter 2001, 4-10.

“Recent Trends in the History of the Italian Book,” talk presented to the Western European Studies Section of the American Library Association, July 10, 2000; full text available on line at http://www.newberry.org/printing-history-and-book-arts-recent-trends-history-italian-book

“The Professional Bookman: Middleton at Ludlow,” Caxtonian 6 (1998), 1.

“From Clay Tablets to CDs: A Short History of the Written Word,” The Chicago Calligraphy Collective Letter , Summer 1998, 6-13.

“What's This Purchase Prize For, Anyway?” The Chicago Calligraphy Collective Letter , Winter 1998, 2.

“Bertram Lord Ashburnham” entry in the Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 184: Nineteenth- Century British Book Collectors and Biographers . Atlanta: Bruccoli Clark Leman, 1997. Pp. 10- 20.

“Chicago ?” in Personal Treasures. Chicago: Caxton Club, 1995. Pp. 3-8.

4 “Some Thoughts on Politics and Moral Education” in REI Newsletter July 1994.

“Books on View,” in Bookways 8 (1993), l2-13.

Co Author (with Elizabeth Zurawski), “ Bound By Elizabeth Kner: the 1950-51 Project for the Newberry,” Journal 31 (1993), 1-35. Reprinted in Hungarian translation with new illustrations as “Inkunábulumok Kner Erzébet köteseben,” Magyar Grafika 38 (1994), 19-25 and 37-47

Translations of Simone Prudenzani and other fourteenth-century poets for Newberry Consort recording, Il Solazzo, Music for a Medieval Banquet . Harmonia Mundi CD, 1992.

A Bookplate By Eric Gill . Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1990. 8 pp.

Co-author (with Richard H. Brown), “The Newberry Library Today, a Community of Learners.” In Humanities' Mirror, at the Newberry, 1887-1987 . Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1987. Pp. 37-42.

“Texts and Textures: Dirty Pictures and Other Things in Medieval Manuscripts,” Corona 3 (1982), 68-77.

The Roman Imperial Cult . Illustrated Slide Lecture A4. Evanston: Religion and Ethics Institute, 1979. 8pp., 24 slides.

Cybele and Attis . Mystery Religions Lecture 8. Evanston: Religion and Ethics Institute, 1979. 8pp., 24 slides.

LIBRARY EXHIBITS/CATALOGS :

Co- (with Barbara Korbel and Giselle Simon), Marbled Papers and Fine Bindings by Norma B. Rubovits , The Newberry Library, Chicago, September 30 - December 31, 2010.

Co-curator (with Jenny Schwartzberg), Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Children’s Books at The Newberry Library , September 27, 2008 - January 14, 2009.

[Catalogue essay] “Nothing…About Books: Reading Textures in the Books of Anton Würth.” In Anton Würth, in Form von Buch . Offenbach: Klingspor , 2008. Pp. 20-25.

Curatorial contributor, Recent Acquisitions at the Newberry Library , March – May 2008.

Local curator, Disbound and Disbursed: The Leaf Book Considered . Caxton Club exhibit hosted by the Newberry Library April 15- July 15, 2005.

[Foreword], The Press at Colorado College: Pressroom as Classroom . Colorado Springs: Colorado College, 2004. Pp. 9-10. 5

[Introduction], Inland Printers : The Fine Press Movement in Chicago, 1920-1945 , Chicago: The Caxton Club, 2003. Pp. 5-13.

Miniature exhibits in the Newberry Library spotlight series on Napoleon I & Josephine (2003), Papal Rome (2003), Second Empire Paris (2004), the Klaus Stopp collection (2004), Marie Antoinette (2005), Copytright issues (2006), Multi-Lingual Typography (2007), Printed Ephemera (2008).

[Catalogue essay], “Something Added, Thoughts on Process,” in Jerome Book Arts Fellowship Exhibition VII . Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 2001. Pp. 4-5.

Curator, Florentine Humanism and the Church Fathers , The Newberry Library, Chicago, April - July 2000.

Curatorial contributor, The Joy of Collecting, Recent Acquisitions at the Newberry Library , May – July 1999.

Curatorial contributor, Living Treasures of the Newberry Library , April - September 1998.

Curatorial contributor, The Hebrew Renaissance , The Newberry Library, Chicago, May – July, 1997.

Curatorial contributor and sometime juror, Explorations , the annual juried exhibit of the Chicago Calligraphy Collective, 1995 – 2005.

Co-curator, Personal Treasures: Favorite Books of Caxton Club Members , January - March 1995.

Curator, A Century of and Book Loving in Chicago , Caxton Club centennial exhibit, January - March 1995.

Curator, Ernst F. Detterer: Chicago Teacher, Designer and Collector , 1889-1947 , August - October 1990.

[Foreword] Chicago of Fifteenth Century Italian Woodcuts from the Biblioteca Classense in Ravenna (Ravenna: Longo, 1989).

Co-curator, An Uncommon Collector: Frederic Ives Carpenter (1861-1925), An Exhibit of Renaissance Imprints at the Newberry Library , December 1985 - February 1986

Curatorial Assistant, Faith, Law and Dissent, The Inquisition in the Early Modern World , The Newberry Library, Chicago, October - December 1985.

JURYING AND JUDGING: For design and book-arts competitions of the Association of 6 American University Presses, Chicago Book Clinic, Chicago Calligraphy Collective, Chicago Hand Bookbinders, , Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Guild of Bookworkers, Minnesota Arts.

BOOK REVIEWS: Have appeared in Analytical and Enumerative , La Bibliofilía , Bulletin du Bibliophile , History of Education Quarterly , Italica , Journal of Interdisciplinary History , Modern Language Review , Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America , Parenthesis , Printing History , Publishing Research Quarterly , Religious Studies Review , Renaissance Quarterly , Sixteenth-Century Studies, Speculum , etc.

PERSONAL: Born: September 24, 1949 at West Bend, Wisconsin

Citizenship: U.S.A. (fifth-generation German-American)

Languages: Native speaker of English; near fluency in spoken Italian; reading knowledge of French, German, Spanish, Latin.

Memberships: American Historical Association; Medieval Academy of America; American Printing History Association; Caxton Club; Society of Italian Historians; Early Book Society.

Service: Current or past service on the boards or committees of the American Printing History Association, Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Caxton Club, Hamilton Wood Type Museum, Press at Colorado College, Religion and Ethics Institute, Seminary Co-op Bookstores, La Bibliofilía . Currently on the advisory boards of the Archivio italiano per la storia della pietà , Litterae Caelestes , and rarebooksinfo.com.

Contact: [email protected] 312-255-3645 1/13

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