Time for a public appeal! I’m trying to get hold of an exhibition catalogue, for an exhibition held at the town hall in Viterbo on 21 June 1997-10th January 1998, title: Il Mitreo di Vulci : Montalto di Castro, Palazzo del Comune, 21 giugno 1997-10 gennaio 1998, which is 43 p. and was written by a certain A.M. Sgubini Moretti (although the name may not be obvious, I think).
Copies exist in various Italian libraries: in Florence, in what might be Rome, and so on – a Google search on the title will bring up some OPACs.
But how on earth can I get hold of a copy? And especially the colour illustrations?
Suggestions, however off the wall, very welcome!
O.k. Here’s a start.
A. M. Sgubini Moretti is Anna Maria Sgubini Moretti
http://books.google.com/books?id=Uzm1U-rnRt0C&pg=PT65&lpg=PT65&dq=Anna+Maria+Sgubini+Moretti,+Vulci,+mitreo&source=bl&ots=Z9yepAvega&sig=__DNOX2DHI4jFyvSgZOuH3Y0vwg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tV8NU6KBGpDkoASokYKACw&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Anna%20Maria%20Sgubini%20Moretti%2C%20Vulci%2C%20mitreo&f=false
Here’s her C.V.
https://www.academia.edu/851213/Testimonianza_di_un_culto_mitriaco_a_Colle_Arsiccio_di_Magione_Pg_in_RdA_XXX_2006_pp._77-_91
Anna Maria Sgubini Moretti in Mysteria Mithrae, 259-276 for the Mithraeum at Vulci (no more on this)
Mysteria Mithrae described here: http://www.cbt.biblioteche.provincia.tn.it/oseegenius/resource?uri=54274
You might like this paper on a different mithraeum found in Etruria: https://www.academia.edu/851213/Testimonianza_di_un_culto_mitriaco_a_Colle_Arsiccio_di_Magione_Pg_in_RdA_XXX_2006_pp._77-_91
This is as close as I can come:
http://www.culturaitalia.it/opencms/opencms/system/modules/com.culturaitalia_stage.liberologico/templates/viewItem.jsp?language=it&case=&id=oai%3Awww.internetculturale.it%2Fmetaoaicat%3Aoai%3Abncf.firenze.sbn.it%3A21%3AFI0098%3AArsbni2%3ACFI0382537
Thank you very much for these ideas. I wonder if she is online, now I think about it.
A bit naughty, but I sometimes use screen capture (ctrl + print screen) and paste into a ‘paint’ document as a jpeg with some on-line material sections where I don’t want the inconvenience of trawling university libraries or the British Library – and I only need a few pages of a reference text. But of course the difficulty you have is finding the relevant page in the first place.
Regards:
SU
Nothing wrong with that. I use Abbyy Finereader as OCR, and this comes with a util to OCR screen grabs. But as you say, if it isn’t online…
Try Amazon.it – they’ve unearthed some rare pieces for me.
I didn’t know there *was* an Amazon.it. Will try it. Thank you!
Roger, the Assessore (Assessoressa if a woman) alla Cultura of the comune of Montalto di Castro should have a file. Their website, easy to find: http://bit.ly/MontaltoDiCastro • Their e‑mail address, less so: Whether they’ll answer their e‑mail is another matter, Italian comuni rarely answer, even when written courteously and in Italian: the blame often lies in the way the servers are managed, with a commercial website developer/manager running the show and often finding it simpler to trash incoming e‑mail!
Thank you very much for this suggestion – I had not thought of this.
A few years ago Italian libraries never responded to emails. I suspect that a trip out there is the only way. Which might not be a bad thing, of itself!