Manuscript Culture In Renaissance Italy
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Author | : Brian Richardson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-07-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107425521 |
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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 | : Brian Richardson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-10-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521888476 |
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This book is an analysis of the circulation of texts in Renaissance Italy: in print, manuscript, and spoken word.
Author | : Brian Richardson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2020-03-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108477690 |
Download Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The first comprehensive guide to women's promotion and use of textual culture, in manuscript and print, in Renaissance Italy.
Author | : Brian Richardson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9780521893022 |
Download Print Culture in Renaissance Italy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1999-08-05 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9780521576932 |
Download Printing, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Joseph R. Hacker |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2011-08-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 081220509X |
Download The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The rise of printing had major effects on culture and society in the early modern period, and the presence of this new technology—and the relatively rapid embrace of it among early modern Jews—certainly had an effect on many aspects of Jewish culture. One major change that print seems to have brought to the Jewish communities of Christian Europe, particularly in Italy, was greater interaction between Jews and Christians in the production and dissemination of books. Starting in the early sixteenth century, the locus of production for Jewish books in many places in Italy was in Christian-owned print shops, with Jews and Christians collaborating on the editorial and technical processes of book production. As this Jewish-Christian collaboration often took place under conditions of control by Christians (for example, the involvement of Christian typesetters and printers, expurgation and censorship of Hebrew texts, and state control of Hebrew printing), its study opens up an important set of questions about the role that Christians played in shaping Jewish culture. Presenting new research by an international group of scholars, this book represents a step toward a fuller understanding of Jewish book history. Individual essays focus on a range of issues related to the production and dissemination of Hebrew books as well as their audiences. Topics include the activities of scribes and printers, the creation of new types of literature and the transformation of canonical works in the era of print, the external and internal censorship of Hebrew books, and the reading interests of Jews. An introduction summarizes the state of scholarship in the field and offers an overview of the transition from manuscript to print in this period.
Author | : Jonathan James Graham Alexander |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : ART |
ISBN | : 9780300203981 |
Download The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"Hand-painted illumination enlivened the burgeoning culture of the book in the Italian Renaissance, spanning the momentous shift from manuscript production to print. J. J. G. Alexander describes key illuminated manuscripts and printed books from the period and explores the social and material worlds in which they were produced. Renaissance humanism encouraged wealthy members of the laity to join the clergy as readers and book collectors. Illuminators responded to patrons' developing interest in classical motifs, and celebrated artists such as Mantegna and Perugino occasionally worked as illuminators. Italian illuminated books found patronage across Europe, their dispersion hastened by the French invasion of Italy at the end of the 15th century.--
Author | : Alison Knowles Frazier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015-03 |
Genre | : Christian saints |
ISBN | : 9780772721815 |
Download The Saint Between Manuscript and Print Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"The essays in this volume examine the impact of printing on the expression, representation, and reproduction of sanctity on the Italian peninsula between 1400 and 1600 and how the imperatives of cult were expressed in various media, both old and new. In so doing, they advance a fuller and more nuanced understanding of both cult and media, and mark the nexus of cult and media as a site of cultural production and innovation. They are thus initial steps in a new area and an invitation to further study of saints of all sorts--canonized, popularly recognized, or self-proclaimed--in the fluid media environment of early modernity."--
Author | : Diane Wolfthal |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2004-07-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9047405587 |
Download Picturing Yiddish Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This is the first comprehensive study of the images in five profusely illustrated Yiddish books from sixteenth-century Italy: a manuscript of Jewish customs, and four printed volumes - two books of customs, a chivalric romance, and a book of fables.
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Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2014-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1783161582 |
Download The Arthur of the Italians Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardner’s 1930 The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature. Arthurian material reached all levels of Italian society, from princely courts with their luxury books and frescoed palaces, to the merchant classes and even popular audiences in the piazza, which enjoyed shorter retellings in verse and prose. Unique assemblages emerge on Italian soil, such as the Compilation of Rustichello da Pisa or the innovative Tavola Ritonda, in versions made for both Tuscany and the Po Valley. Chapters examine the transmission of the French romances across Italy; reworkings in various Italian regional dialects; the textual relations of the prose Tristan; narrative structures employed by Italian writers; later ottava rima poetic versions in the new medium of printed books; the Arthurian-themed art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; and more. The Arthur of the Italians offers a rich corpus of new criticism by scholars who have brought the Italian Arthurian material back into critical conversation.