We've recently experienced some of the benefits and pitfalls of using Google Books as a resource for the study of the Neapolitan past. We report on this experience in the June 12, 2009 issue of
The Chronicle of Higher Education, available today online in an article entitled
"Google Books Mutilates the Printed Past"
and accessible free for the next week.
Mutilation — of kingdoms and of scholarship — emerges as a key theme.