Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Gifts

COSENZA gift. .Mrs. Mario E. Cosenza has presented
the papers of her late husband. Professor Mario Emilio
Cosenza (Ph.D., 1906), which include the records
and files for his monumental work. Biographical and Biblio¬
graphical Dictionary of the Italian Humanists and of the World
of Classical Scholarship in Italy, 1300-1SOO. Dean Emeritus of
Brooklyn College, Professor Cosenza was an authority on
Petrarch, the Italian Renaissance, and the Italian humanists, and
his notes on these subjects are also present in the collection.

Davis gift. Assisting us in completing our file of the first editions
of Coleridge, Professor Robert Gotham Davis has presented a
fine copy of the first London edition of Specimens of the Table
Talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1835,
the year after Coleridge's death.

Del Rio gift. An important and fascinating collection, the
"Bolivarian Collection of Documents," relating to the South
American soldier, statesman, and revolutionary leader, Simon
Bolivar, has been presented to the Libraries by Mr. Daniel A.
del Rio. The collection, comprising 172 documents and letters,
is dated mainly in the first three decades of the nineteenth cen¬
tury and deals with the revolutions in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia,
Chile, and Venezuela led by El Lihertador, Simon Bolivar. A
decree on public instruction, as well as a military certificate,
are signed by Bolivar and dated in Lima in 1825. There are also