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Kathryn Gucer

is currently Visiting Research Scholar at the Folger Shakespeare Library, where she writing a book on cross-cultural information exchange in early modern England and Europe.  She was an NEH Long-term Fellow in 2011-2012.
The Folger’s Mazarinades: Libraries within Libraries
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The Folger’s Mazarinades: Libraries within Libraries

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A guest post by Kathryn Gucer In 1652, Gabriel Naudé argued passionately for the importance of libraries and collecting books in a brief pamphlet, Advis a nosseigneurs de Parliament. Naudé repudiates a proposal by the parliament of Paris to break…