Stolen Book - Stolen Books. De Caro and the Girolamini Thefts – More from Italy 2. Dear Fellow- Presidents,This is to inform you about the latest developments in the “De Caro- Affair”. During the meeting in Naples at the end of September, the Chief- Prosecutor, Dr Francesco Piscitelli, assured both Fabrizio Govi, President of ALAI, and myself, that the Girolamini- Affair and the accompanying issues of Philobiblon/Bloomsbury and Christian Westergaard, had nothing to do with each other. Although I would not claim the recent reactions as an immediate follow- up to the Naples- Meeting, I strongly believe that this meeting moved some things in the right directions: all the books of the Philobiblon/Bloomsbury auction – originally scheduled for early June, postponed to the end of September – as well as the eleven books that had been confiscated from the stock of the Danish bookseller Christian Westergaard, have just been released. This interview is, of course, scandalous, not only because of the fact that in a civilized country where the ! It is also a scandal because the interviewer – I refuse to say: reporter – had not even tried to receive a statement from both ILAB and ALAI. We have refused to file a law- suit against both the reporter and Mr De Caro, but the President of ALAI, Fabrizio Govi, and the former Director of the Italian National Libraries, Dr Daniele Danesi, have responded to this interview in a serious and widely read newspaper in Italy. ALAI has also placed this note on its website, and has also opened a section on its website where intellectuals, librarians, and, of course, booksellers, can sign this protest – and so far quite a few have signed it. We have been unable to provide you with a correct English translation of the statements of Fabrizio Govi and Dr Daniele Danesi, we have therefore attached the pdf of the Italian Newspaper article, as well as an Italian transcript of the articles, and an English Google translation of those articles (it can help understanding the Italian version. Passages that were too obscure have been kept in italics). We would be happy if you, dear Fellow- Presidents, would forward this information to your members, and, if possible, load it up to your website. Kind regards,Norbert Donhofer, President of ILAB> > > Click here to read the article and an English translation. De Caro and the Girolamini Thefts – More from Italy 1. A letter from ILAB President Norbert Donhofer: Dear Fellow- Presidents,Shortly after my visit at Naples where I had met with Italian authorities, I received a letter from Dott. Rossana Rummo from the 'Ministero dei beni e delle attivit. The title of this letter was. Our Italian colleagues have translated not only her letter to me but also Fabrizio Govi's and my answer to her, as well as Dott. Rummo's response to our letter. We are forwarding all the three letters to you. Feel free to forward those to your members and/or publish them on your website. Kind regards,Norbert Donhofer, President of ILAB> > > Scroll down to open the pdf file. De Caro and the Girolamini Thefts - List of the books which had been confiscated or withdrawn from auction No 5. Zisska & Schauer (Munich) in May 2. ABELL, Matched set of wooden whistles (these are like the commonly known tin whistle, only in wood) by Chris Abell. One each in: A, B-flat, C and D. Each made in ebony with silver rings and fipples. Lyrics to 'Stolen' song by DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL: We watch the season pull up its own stakes And catch the last weekend of the last week Before the go. Do you think you have the fastest computer at ASSEMBLY Summer 2016? Now it's good time to tune your PC. The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen Children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies. The Summer Math and Science Honors Academy (SMASH) is a free of cost, STEM-intensive college preparatory program for underrepresented high school students of color. SMASH boasts a rigorous 5-week, 3-year summer. Dear Fellow- Presidents,Following our strategy to bringing as much light as possible in the Girolamini thefts, the Committee had asked the Munich based auction house Zisska & Lacher (formerly Zisska & Schauer) to provide us with a list of the books which had been confiscated or withdrawn from their auction No 5. May of 2. 01. 2 (the books from the Girolamini library). The auction house had agreed to sending us such a list, but, unfortunately, they could provide us only with a hard paper copy. The reason for this is that the PC of the then responsible manager – Herbert Schauer – had been confiscated by the Bavarian Police as well, and no other electronic copy of this list was available. We have, however, managed to create a SEARCHABLE pdf- document after we had scanned some 8. The list starts with the few books which were confiscated by the authorities before the auction had started. The next part of the list – some 5. The last and most extensive part of the document covers all the withdrawn items of auction 5. Zisska & Lacher have provided us also with a huge file of illustrations of the first 4. It is simply impossible to pick out the illustrations of the withdrawn items from this file, and add these to the catalogue descriptions. This would cost a lot of time, energy, and money. More than 3,000 cases of beer were stolen from an Atlanta craft brewery early Tuesday. Two trailers that contained 3,272 cases of beer were taken from SweetWater Brewing Company on Ottley Drive, company spokeswoman Tucker. OCEAN CITY, MD – (August 25, 2015): The Ocean City Police Department Animal Control Unit recently rescued a young puppy that had been stolen from its foster home in West Virginia. Animal Control Officers began an. The Committee will, however, not hesitate to forward this file of images to anybody who might be interested in receiving it. The Committee believes it to be important that with providing our affiliates with this pdf- document unforeseeable difficulties like the ones our member Christian Westergaard had to face, can be avoided. If any of our affiliates has another copy of one the books which were withdrawn by Zisska & Schauer in 2. The latest developments in this case – the arrest of the Danish dealer Christian Westergaard and the confiscation of eleven books out of his stock – gives ILAB no other choice as to announce an official note of protest against the department of investigation. This note of protest will be sent to officials in both the Ministry of Culture of Italy and the Ministry of Justice of Italy, and it will be spread out to librarians, journalists, and the public worldwide. MEMORANDUM OF ILAB TO THE ITALIAN JUDICIARYIn March 2. Professor Tomaso Montanari first brought to light a cultural theft, which then appeared to be limited to the Girolamini Library, based in Naples. We now know that the Director of the library at the time, Marino Massimo de Caro, widened his trail in plundering through other libraries in Italy as well: Montecassino, Naples Municipal Library, Ministry of Agriculture Library, a Seminary in Padua, and the Ximines Observatory Library in Florence. Soon after the discovery of the theft the Italian authorities announced that four books from the Girolamini Library were offered in Auction 5. May 2. 01. 2) at the Munich Auction House Zisska and Schauer, and arranged for them to be seized by the German police. The auction house thereupon recalled all books from this consignment - a total of 5. German authorities in Munich, where these books have been stored to this day. The President of ILAB at the time - Arnoud Gerits - then informed the members of ILAB in an open letter and he immediately offered his assistance and cooperation to the Italian investigating authorities to uncover the truth of this scandal. When Tom Congalton was elected the new President of ILAB in the autumn of 2. The stolen generations has become a central story in contemporary Australia and this telling, by a member of that generation, goes to the heart of our sense of self.Italian authorities of ILAB’s willingness to assist in every conceivable manner to get to the bottom of this case. Both offers, as well as many others made subsequently, went unanswered by the Italian authorities. On April 8 in 2. 01. President of the Italian Association of Antiquarian Booksellers, ALAI, Fabrizio Govi, attempted to relate the criminal route of Marino Massimo de Caro in a speech in the Library of Congress; in the edition of the “The New Yorker” of December 1. Nicholas Schmidle described in detail how the former Director of the Girolamini Library was further implicated. Both of these, the speech made by Fabrizio Govi and Nicholas Schmidle’s article, were also brought to the attention of the Italian authorities. In 2. 01. 3 the Italian antiquarian bookseller Giuseppe Solmi was arrested by the Italian Carabinieri, and released a short time later. The charge: dealing in books stolen from one of the libraries in which Marino Massimo de Caro was operating. On the 2nd of August of the same year the auctioneer Herbert Schauer was arrested on the strength of a European arrest warrant, and deported to Italy several weeks afterwards. The charge: dealing in books stolen from one of the libraries in which Marino Massimo de Caro was operating and participation in a criminal association. DVLA is warning motorists to be on the lookout for stolen V5C vehicle registration certificates when buying a used vehicle. Has your car or bike been stolen? If so, then you can send an e-mail to CarsOnline and we'll list the details on this page (with photograph), under the makers / manufacturers name.You can leave any personal details with. Herbert Schauer was condemned to a five- year prison sentence early this summer, but meanwhile the arrest of Mr. Schauer was lifted by the Italian Court of Cassation. The latest case in relation to this affair concerns the Danish antiquarian bookseller Christian Westergaard. He was arrested several weeks ago in front of his family. The charge: dealing in books stolen from one of the libraries in which Marino Massimo de Caro was operating. To be sure, Christian Westergaard was released the same day, but the eleven books that had been secured by the Danish police during a mutual assistance procedure remained in safekeeping by the Danish police. The most astonishing thing about the latter case is the fact that all eleven books were also included in the catalogue of Zisska and Schauer's Auction 5. German authorities since May 2. For all eleven of the books that had been secured by him, Christian Westergaard was subsequently able to prove when, where and from whom he had acquired them. This includes also books he had acquired from the Macclesfield Auction at Sotheby’s in London (2. It was only a few days before the start of the first auction of Philobiblon/Bloomsbury (Rome) when the Carabinieri confiscated all lots of the auction by order of the court at Naples. It was suspected that some books of this auction had been stolen from the Girolamini library. The President of ALAI, Fabrizio Govi, appointed two independent experts to check the books, and Mr. Parkin reported that not a single book of the auction could be traced back to an Italian Public Library. ILAB protests against this unprofessional approach by the Italian authorities in the strongest terms.
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