{"id":1249,"date":"2025-04-17T06:12:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urancient\/?page_id=1249"},"modified":"2025-04-17T11:09:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:09:29","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urancient\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The books in the Ancient World Gallery were collected by Talbot R. Selby<\/strong>, a former Classical Studies professor at the University of Richmond. Selby\u2019s Classics career was inspired largely by the University of North Carolina\u2019s Berthold Louis Ullman, a famed classicist who helped write the popular textbook <\/span>Latin for Americans.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Due to Selby\u2019s service in World War II, the G.I. Bill helped fund his education. He received not only a Bachelor\u2019s and a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Rome, where he attended the Sapienza University in 1952. In 1956, he returned to Rome, building a massive collection of rare books. In the 1970s, he was the Chairman of the Board at St. Stephen\u2019s School in Rome<\/a>,<\/span> stepping in with colleague Bill Benton to keep it from closing. He was also a founding member of the Mediterranean Society of America, was on the Board of Directors of St. Christopher\u2019s School in the 1960s, and taught at the University of Richmond for twenty-eight years before retiring. At the time of his death, Selby was working on a translation of a Filippo Villani volume (#86).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to being an excellent classicist, Selby was passionate about gardening, cooking, and bluegrass. He also owned a wine store in Midlothian, called Chez Edouard, in the late 70s and early 80s. As a professor, he was known for his intelligence and sense of humor. The books in the Gallery are only a small part of his collection: his children, <\/span>Talbot H. Selby, Sarah Ely Kelly, Barbara S. Wells, Marjorie S. Jurek, and Elizabeth S. McCarthy, donated these to the University upon his death.<\/span><\/p>\n

For a detailed catalog of books in the collection, see https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urancient\/books-catalog\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Research by Ava Scott, '25)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

Bibliography<\/h3>\n
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Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. \u201cB.L. Ullman.\u201d Last modified 2024. https:\/\/classics.unc.edu\/about-us-2\/departmental-history-3\/b-l-ullman\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Selby, Talbot R. \u201cFilippo Villani and His \u2018Vita\u2019 of Guido Bonatti.\u201d Renaissance News<\/em> 11, no. 4 (Winter 1958): 243\u2013248. https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/renaissance-news\/article\/abs\/filippo-villani-and-his-vita-of-guido-bonatti\/A9F824B2E54DEBD96947EA58DB18B306<\/a>.<\/span>\u200bCambridge University Press & Assessment<\/span>+2<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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