Le volume intitulé Savoir/pouvoir. Les bibliothèques, de l’Antiquité à la modernité se présente comme un ouvrage construit – résultat d’une enquête plurielle qui s’attache à examiner un phénomène majeur de culture et de civilisation : l’essor des bibliothèques en Orient comme en Occident, depuis les origines jusqu’à nos jours.

The age of Giotto, Dante, and Boccaccio, the fourteenth century in Italy, known as the trecento, was a pivotal moment in art history and in European culture. The studies in this volume present new approaches to art in this important but often neglected period of the early Renaissance.

Reviewed in The Burlington

"(...) scholars will benefit from Stoesser’s exacting analysis of precisely how artists navigated the commercial and creative aspects of marketing their works to clients – especially in Genoa – during the first half of the seicento. Few other authors go to the effort of explaining the foundations of artistic practice on a commercial level, to outline the main tenets of the theoretical discourse that subsumed the creation of many of these works, or of reviewing arcane source material (the reader learns, for example, that it took over one hundred different motions to load a musket, information cited to substantiate the accuracy of details in Cornelis’s military works)."

Timothy Standring, in: The Burlington Magazine, February 2019