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A Marvelous Solitude : The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe / Lina Bolzoni and translated by Sylvia Greenup.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bolzoni, Lina, author.
- Series:
- Church universal.
- The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance Delivered at Villa I Tatti Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books and reading--Europe--History.
- Books and reading.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- The sense of reading as an intimate act of self-discovery--and of communion between authors and book lovers--has a long history. Lina Bolzoni returns to Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Montaigne, and Tasso, exploring how Renaissance humanists began to represent reading as a private encounter and a dialogue across barriers of time and space.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of llustrations
- Introduction
- 1. Petrarch and the Magical Space of the Library
- 2. The Text as a Body and the Resurrection of the Ancients
- 3. Portraits, or The Desire to See the Author
- 4. Reading, Writing, and the Construction of the Self
- 5. Machiavelli's Letter to Vettori
- 6. Montaigne's Tower
- 7. Tasso and the Dangers of Reading
- Epilogue: Ruskin, Proust, and the "Miracle of Reading"
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-29490-4
- 0-674-29491-2
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