General Bibliography on Alessandro Volta - Pavia Project Physics ...
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118 GEORGIA SANTANGELO-CARLA GARBARINO<br />
<strong>Volta</strong> jr at the beginning of 1900) owned by the Istituto Lombardo in Milan. 5<br />
Other references have been collected from indexes of journals like Isis, from<br />
‘Eureka’, the history of science, technology, and medicine database of the RLG<br />
(Researc Libraries Group), and from volumes dealing with <strong>Volta</strong> and his time.<br />
Special thanks go to the staffs of the Library of the Istituto Lombardo, the<br />
University Library of <strong>Pavia</strong>, the Biblioteca Nazi<strong>on</strong>ale Marciana of Venice, the<br />
Biblioteca Nazi<strong>on</strong>ale of Naples, the Public Library of Como, and the Libraries of the<br />
<strong>Physics</strong> Departments of the Universities of <strong>Pavia</strong> and La Sapienza in Rome.<br />
This bibliographical tool, 6 the digital editi<strong>on</strong> of <strong>Volta</strong>’s collected works, 7 the<br />
publicati<strong>on</strong> of the Regesto of his manuscripts 8 and the rec<strong>on</strong>structi<strong>on</strong> of his physics<br />
cabinet with 140 original instruments 9 make available to historians of science an<br />
unprecedented wealth of tools to analyse <strong>Volta</strong>’s life and works.<br />
We hope that our effort will be useful and that we shall be able to update it<br />
periodically.<br />
ID., Aggiunte alle Opere e all’Epistolario di <strong>Alessandro</strong> <strong>Volta</strong>. Edizi<strong>on</strong>e Nazi<strong>on</strong>ale sotto gli auspici<br />
dell’Istituto lombardo di scienze e lettere e della Società italiana di fisica, FERRETTI-TORRICELLI,<br />
ANGELO and MASSARDI, FRANCESCO eds., Bologna: Zanichelli, 1966.<br />
ID., Indici delle Opere e dell’Epistolario di <strong>Alessandro</strong> <strong>Volta</strong>. Edizi<strong>on</strong>e Nazi<strong>on</strong>ale sotto gli auspici<br />
dell’Istituto lombardo di scienze e lettere [e] della Società italiana di fisica …, FERRETTI-TORRICELLI,<br />
ANGELO ed., Milano: Rusc<strong>on</strong>i, 1974-1976.<br />
5 BEVILACQUA, FABIO and FERRARESI, ALESSANDRA and BONERA, GIANNI eds., Regesto dei<br />
manoscritti del Cartellario Voltiano, Milano: Hoepli, 2002.<br />
6 Available <strong>on</strong>-line at the web site: http://ppp.unipv.it/<strong>Volta</strong>/Pages/FFormBiblio<strong>Volta</strong>.htm. We are<br />
working towards adding a ‘field’ with the actual locati<strong>on</strong> of each title.<br />
7 BEVILACQUA, FABIO and BONERA, GIANNI and FALOMO, LIDIA eds., <strong>Alessandro</strong> <strong>Volta</strong>. Edizi<strong>on</strong>e<br />
Nazi<strong>on</strong>ale delle Opere e dell’Epistolario, CD-ROM, Milano: Hoepli, 2002.<br />
8 BEVILACQUA, FABIO and FERRARESI, ALESSANDRA and BONERA, GIANNI eds., Regesto dei<br />
manoscritti del Cartellario Voltiano, Milano: Hoepli, 2002.<br />
9 The catalogue is <strong>on</strong>-line at the web site: http://ppp.unipv.it, and a printed editi<strong>on</strong> is forthcoming:<br />
BEVILACQUA, FABIO and BELLODI, GIULIANO and FALOMO, LIDIA eds., Gli strumenti di <strong>Alessandro</strong><br />
<strong>Volta</strong>: Il Gabinetto di fisica dell’Università di <strong>Pavia</strong>, Milano: Hoepli, 2002.