Author: Brian Richardson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521576932
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The spread of printing to Renaissance Italy had a dramatic impact on all users of books. As works came to be diffused more widely and cheaply, so authors had to adapt their writing and their methods of publishing to the demands and opportunities of the new medium, and reading became a more frequent and user-friendly activity. Printing, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy focuses on this interaction between the book industry and written culture. After describing the new technology and the contexts of publishing and bookselling, it examines the continuities and changes faced by writers in the shift from manuscript to print, the extent to which they benefited from print in their careers, and the greater accessibility of books to a broader spectrum of readers, including women and the less well educated. This is the first integrated study of a topic of central importance in Italian and European culture.
Author: Brian Richardson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521893022
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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The emergence of print in late fifteenth-century Italy gave a crucial new importance to the editors of texts, who determined the form in which texts from the Middle Ages would be read, and who could strongly influence the interpretation and status of texts by adding introductory material or commentary. Brian Richardson here examines the Renaissance circulation and reception of works by earlier writers including Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio and Ariosto, as well as popular contemporary works of entertainment. In so doing he sheds light on the impact of the new printing and editing methods on Renaissance culture, including the standardisation of vernacular Italian and its spread to new readers and writers, the establishment of new standards in textual criticism, and the increasing rivalry between the two cities on which this study is chiefly focused, Venice and Florence.
Author: Brian Richardson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108477690
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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The first comprehensive guide to women's promotion and use of textual culture, in manuscript and print, in Renaissance Italy.
Author: Evelyn Lincoln
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300243130
Category : Prints, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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Author: Dennis E. Rhodes
Publisher: London : Pindar Press
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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This selection of 57 studies by Dr. D. E. Rhodes focuses on the history of printing in Italy from the earliest printers of the 15th century to the flourishing of regional presses in the 16th and 17th centuries. The author is a leading authority on early printed books, and the present volume brings together for the first time a number of important articles on early printing in Venice, Rome, Mantua and Milan, and also covers the presses of Southern Italy, and the smaller Italian towns. The articles have been up-dated where necessary, with the addition of bibliographical notes and an index. There is a preface by George Painter.
Author: Brian Richardson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107425521
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Even after the arrival of printing in the fifteenth century, texts continued to be circulated within Italian society by means of manuscript. Scribal culture offered rapidity, flexibility and a sense of private, privileged communication. This book is a detailed treatment of the continuing use of scribal transmission in Renaissance Italy. Brian Richardson explores the uses of scribal culture within specific literary genres, its methods and its audiences. He also places it within the wider system of textual communication and of self-presentation, examining the relationships between manuscript and print and between manuscript and the spoken or sung performance of verse. An important contribution to a lively area of the history of the book, this study will be of interest both for the abundance of new material on the circulation of texts in Italy and as a model for how to study the cultures of manuscript and print in early modern Europe.
Author: Martin Davies
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Aldus Manutius belongs to that select group of historical figures whose name has become an adjective. From the spring of 1495 the Aldine Press undertook a vast and novel programme of making the written remains of Greek Antiquity widely and systematically available to the scholarly public of Renaissance Europe. Besides this, Aldus printed many Latin and Italian texts in cheaper formats in the famous Aldine italic. This new study introduces 'the prince of printers' under his various aspects, as scholar and businessman, editor and typographer, in commemoration of the quincentenary of his first publication. The beautifully reproduced illustrations are drawn largely from Aldines in the unrivalled collections of The British Library.
Author: Victor Scholderer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: James Johnson
Publisher: San Francisco : Windsor Press
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Author: Davis & Orioli (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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