A marvelous solitude : the art of reading in early modern Europe / Lina Bolzoni ; translated by Sylvia Greenup.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bolzoni, Lina, author.

Contributor:

Greenup, Sylvia, translator.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Bernard Berenson lectures on the Italian Renaissance

The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance

Standardized Title:

Meravigliosa solitudine. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--Europe--History.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--Psychological aspects.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Europe.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

Physical Description:

ix, 246 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"The experience of reading, in the modern age, is often presented as intimate, personal, transformative-a journey wherein the reader may both recognize and redesign the self. In A Marvelous Solitude, Lina Bolzoni examines the equivalent rituals and myths that learned men associated with reading between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. During this period, European men of letters-from Petrarch to Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Montaigne, and Tasso-began to represent reading itself as a dialogue between reader and author."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Petrarch and the Magical Space of the Library

The Text as a Body and the Resurrection of the Ancients

Portraits, or the Desire to see the Author

Reading, Writing and the Construction of the Self

Machiavelli's Letter to Vettori

Montaigne's Tower

Tasso and the Dangers of Reading.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780674660236

0674660234

OCLC:

1376342212