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PostSubject: Italy: Statist plunders thousands of rare books at Girolamini Library   Italy: Statist plunders thousands of rare books at Girolamini Library Icon_minitimeSun Aug 12, 2012 7:47 pm
For months the alarm has been resounding throughout the insular world of antiquarian books: beware of volumes bearing the stamp of the storied Girolamini Library in Naples. They could be hot.

The library's former director, Marino Massimo De Caro, was arrested in May, accused of systematically despoiling the library he had been charged with keeping safe, stealing books and selling them on the open market or directly to collectors. And sharp sleuthing on the part of a professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta has raised questions about Mr De Caro and the sale of other, possibly forged, books.

The unravelling of Mr De Caro was precipitated by a chance visit to the library in March by Tomaso Montanari, a professor of art history at the University of Naples and a contributor to the daily newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano. What he saw there - books piled haphazardly and empty shelves, with garbage strewed about - immediately went into print, and that prompted a petition signed by hundreds of Italian intellectuals questioning Mr De Caro's appointment as director.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/plunder-of-rare-books-a-global-conspiracy-20120812-242n1.html#ixzz23NY6c5Qf
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