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'The Eccentricities of a Scholar’s Library' with John V. Fleming (A Virtual Event)

Please join us on Sunday, August 29 at 3 p.m. when Professor John Fleming discusses his extensive personal library, which includes 16th century Italian editions of the works of Petrarch as well as 10 folio volumes of The Cornelius à Lapide’s Great Commentary from the 1700s. His collection, despite being that of a scholar rather than a collector, takes an interest in the provenance of many of his books, most of which he has purchased second hand. His talk promises to be an unapologetically eccentric tour through some of them, somewhat in the fashion of Tristram Shandy.

Register here: https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrcOiorDIpH9IPPySlc48ZlrwqGB1NDod8

Date:
Sunday, August 29, 2021
Time:
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Audience:
  Friends of Princeton University Library     Member of the Public  
Categories:
  Friends of the Princeton University Library Event  
John V. Fleming, the Louis W. Fairchild Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature emeritus, has been an active member of the Friends of the Princeton University Library for many years. He taught at Princeton from 1965 until his retirement in 2006. He served as the University’s chief marshal for more years than he can remember, did two stints as chairman of the English Department, and is the unofficial dean of masters of Princeton undergraduate colleges.

This event is part of the Friends of the Princeton University Library Small Talks Series held each month on a Sunday at 3 p.m. 

View recordings of previous events.

Join the Friends of the Princeton University Library. Friends receive a newsletter, two issues of the Princeton University Library Chronicle, and are invited to participate in a variety of activities and events, including exhibition openings, lectures and talks, gala dinners, workshops on topics such as preservation, bookbinding, and print collecting.

To request disability-related accommodations for this event, please contact pulcomm@princeton.edu at least 3 working days in advance.