PAUL F. GEHL Curriculum Vitae PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS: 1987- Custodian of the John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing, The Newberry Library, Chicago 1984-87 Associate Director of Research and Education, The Newberry Library 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 Rome (1977-78) BOOKS: A Moral Art: Grammar, Culture and Society in Trecento Florence . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. A Meditation in Rome . New York: Russell Maret, 2012. ONLINE BOOK: Humanism For Sale. Making and Marketing School Books in Italy, 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 History of Printing 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 Milan (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 Textbooks 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 Archives, 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 Bibliographical Society of America 97 (2003), 435-460. Co-authored with Kevin M. Stevens, “The Eye of Commerce: Visual Literacy Among the Makers of Books in Italy.” In The Art Market in Italy . Edited by Sara Matthews Grieco. Ferrara: 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 Cinquecento 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 Publishing 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, EDITING 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 Collection . Chicago: The Newberry Library, 2012. “Foreword,” to Jason Dewinetz, Alphabetum Romanum, The Letterforms of Felice Feliciano, ca. 1460, Verona . 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 Caxton Club 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 Provenance,” Typography Papers 6 (2005), 17-18. “Book Arts” and “Printing” entries for The Encyclopedia of Chicago . 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 chapter), 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 Collecting?” 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), “Incunables Bound By Elizabeth Kner: the 1950-51 Project for the Newberry,” Guild of Bookworkers 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),