The project “EDITEF” (L’édition italienne dans l’espace francophone à la première modernité) responds to a pressing need to update current knowledge of the production, diffusion and conservation of works published in Italian in the French-speaking parts of early modern Europe – works which constitute essential corpora for understanding the spread of Humanism and the Renaissance in Continental Europe.The EDITEF project aims at coordinating innovative research on people active in the production, marketing and conservation of Italian books and their French translations in early modern Europe. It proposes an original approach to studying the inter-regional circulation of these works, focusing on the ways and means of marketing, transportation and peddling, and taking into account the role of the great trading fairs. The analysis of inventories and legacies left by collectors, as well as letters exchanged by bibliophiles will enable us to gain a clearer idea of the amplitude of a phenomenon that may aptly be termed as “bibliophilic Italianism” and help us to map the presence of Italian books within the concerned regions. The EDITEF project also intends to develop several digital tools aimed at furthering the exploitation of collected data and efficiently diffusing the results. Foremost among them will be a multifunctional gateway that will potentially become an essential means of information transfer for all researchers working on the history of Italian books during the early modern period. This gateway will provide access to two databases: one biographical, dedicated to the actors of the Italian publishing industry in French-speaking Europe; the other bibliographical, dedicated to collections.