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Manuscript culture in Renaissance Italy / Brian Richardson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PQ4075 .R53 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richardson, Brian (Brian F.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italian literature--15th century--Criticism, Textual.
- Italian literature.
- Italian literature--16th century--Criticism, Textual.
- Transmission of texts--Italy--History--To 1500.
- Transmission of texts.
- Transmission of texts--Italy--History--16th century.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance--Italy.
- Manuscripts, Renaissance.
- Authors and readers--Italy--History--15th century.
- Authors and readers.
- Authors and readers--Italy--History--16th century.
- History.
- Criticism, Textual.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- "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 is the first 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"--Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780521888479
- 0521888476
- OCLC:
- 430344509
- Online:
- Cover image
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