important and substantial introduction by Adriana Arfelli dealing with Malvasia and his work. A new edition of the Felsina pittrice, with an abridgement of the original text and an introduction by Marcella Brascaglia, was brought out in Bologna by Alfa in 1971. A part of the vast accumulation of working notes that Malvasia used for his Felsina pittrice still survives and can be found, bound in two large manuscript volumes, in the Archiginnasio Municipal Library. Felsina pittrice has been criticized for its inaccuracies and unfavorably compared to Le vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti moderni (1672) by Malvasia's contemporary, Giovanni Pietro Bellori, on the grounds of that Malvasia's text is a mere compilation of facts embellished with poetic language, lacking in critical assessments and governed by no theoretical framework other than a provincial attachment to his native city. Recent scholarship has taken Malvasia more seriously as an art historian and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts is preparing the first scholarly, critical edition since 1841, accompanied by the first English translation, of the complete text of the Felsina pittrice (three of the planned sixteen volumes of which have been published by 2017). Malvasia also published Le pitture di Bologna (1686), a companion gallery guide of works by the artists discussed in the Felsina pittrice, and Marmora Felsinea, an extended study of the ancient epigraphic material to be found in the environs of Bologna. References Notes Bibliography (Vol. I, Vol. II). Pace, Claire (1982). "Review: Carlo Cesare Malvasia: The Life of Guido Reni by Catherine Enggass, Robert Enggass", The Burlington Magazine, vol. 124, no. 950 (May), pp. 306–308. External links Felsina pittrice, 1678, catalog record at HathiTrust of digitized versions of copies at the Getty Research Institute Digitized edition of Le pitture di Bologna : che nella pretesa, e rimostrata sin'hora da altri maggiore antichita, & impareggiabile eccellenza nella pittura, con manifesta evidenza da fatto, rendono il passeggiere disingannato ed instrutto dell'Ascoso, accademico gelato. Monti, Bologna 1706 Malvasia project at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. 1616 births 1693 deaths Writers from Bologna Painters from Bologna Italian art historians Italian biographers Biographers of artists 17th-century biographers University of Bologna alumni 17th-century Italian writers 17th-century Italian historians 17th-century Italian painters Academic staff of the University of Bologna Italian antiquarians Italian art collectors Italian art critics