Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section One: Slaying the Tyrant, 1536-2011 -- Folder 1. The Republic of Letters: Its Fascist Legacy -- Folder 2. Humanistic and Imperial Ambition -- Folder 3. The Republic of Letters and Its Imperial Context -- Folder 4. The Tyrant in the Field: Intelligence Gathering, Economy, and the Maintenance of Empire -- Folder 5. The Politics and Economy of Grain -- Folder 6. Sexual Politics and Imperial Documentation Projects -- Folder 7. The (Com)passionate Hand -- SOCIAL INTERSECTION: 1565-1995, between Mexico City, the Mountains of Chiapas, Bologna, Friuli, and Los Angeles -- Section Two: Wings for My Courage -- Shelf List 1. Cataloguers, Compilers, and the State -- Frapporsi 1. Claiming Space on the Shelf -- Shelf List 2. Noses/Political Gnosis -- Frapporsi 2. The Father's Nose (and Bowels): The Education of Sons and Daughters -- Shelf List 3. Gender in the Public Library -- Frapporsi 3. The Importance of Social Relations in Libraries to Investigations of Gender and History -- Shelf List 4. Catalog, Capitalism, Spatial Arrangements -- Frapporsi 4. Spatial and Temporal Location -- Shelf List 5. Work Habits, Movements, Transcription -- Frapporsi 5. Against Academic Arguments: Tarabotti and Mozzoni -- Shelf List 6. Hands, Instruments of Writing -- Frapporsi 6. Hands That Take Up the Pen in Specious Reasoning -- Shelf List 7. Debauchery, Erudition -- Frapporsi 7. The Bestiality and Deceit of Political Erudition -- Shelf List 8. Daughters in the Order of Political Knowledge -- Frapporsi 8. Tyranny (and Freedom) from the Daughter's Perspective -- Shelf List 9. Bibliographic Categories and Armies of Nuns -- Frapporsi 9. A Bibliographic Army of Nuns -- Shelf List 10. The Librarian as Political Actor.

Frapporsi 10. Women, Liberty, the State -- Gender and the Library as Fictions of Research -- SOCIAL INTERSECTION: 1536-2011, between San Diego, Milan, Rome, Venice, Florence, and Paris -- Section Three: Gender, Erudition, and the Italian Nation -- Enter Allart -- Lexicon -- Allargare (and restringere) -- Amazon -- Archives -- Body parts and intellect -- Carraresi -- Chinese -- Coquetteries -- Dominate -- Dreams of the nation -- Erudite relations -- Fear -- Filial relations -- Florence -- French lessons -- Insults and compliments -- Italy and Italian -- Making scenes -- Mixing -- Organization/classification -- Past and present -- Placing copies of the Histoire de la république de Florence in Florence -- Political relations with books -- Preface -- Process -- Protection -- Rules -- Study as consolation -- Translation -- Tyranny -- Vanity -- What we share -- Withholding -- Women of Italy -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.