Paul Colomb de Batines
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Paul Colomb de Batines | |
|---|---|
| Born | 14 November 1811 |
| Died | 14 January 1855 (aged 43) Florence |
| Occupations | Librarian Bibliographer |
Paul Colomb de Batines (14 November 1811 – 14 January 1855) was a 19th-century French bibliographer, librarian and bibliophile. His name remains attached to his great work, a Bibliografia dantesca, "scholarship treasure" (Paolo Trovato, Un falso visconte, due edizioni elettroniche e altri libri su Dante, 451 via della letteratura, della scienza e dell’arte, issue 5, 2010) which is - still in the early twenty-first century - a valuable tool for any literary history study of Dante's work.
In 1829, Colomb de Batines created the library of Gap.[1]
In the 1840s, he took the title "vicomte de Batines" after he left France and settled in Florence.
