Printing the Event : The Press As Mass Medium in Italy and Germany in the First Age of Print.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cassini, Stefano.

Series:

Studies in Early Modern and Contemporary European History Series

Studies in Early Modern and Contemporary European History Series ; v.9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and history.

Communication and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2026.

Summary:

Printing the Event explores the relationship between events and the printing press from its advent around 1450 to ca.1515.Beginning with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the most diverse events were accompanied (and recorded) by printed and illustrated material.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Printing the Event. An Introduction

1 Media Events. State of the Art

2 Contributions

News in Early Italian Printing. Strategies of Collaboration and Commercialization

1 The Jews of Trento, 1475-1476

2 The Pazzi Conspiracy, 1478

3 The First Voyage of Columbus, 1492-1493

4 The War between Venice and the League of Cambrai, 1509-1510

5 Conclusion

Before the Event. Printed Invitations in the Incunabula Period

1 Introduction

2 Survey of Incunabula Invitations

3 Outliers

4 Media Events

Appendix: List of printed Schützenbriefe and invitations to assemblies/diets based on the data from the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke

The Voice of the Anchor. News and Events in Aldus Manutius's Prefaces

2 The War

3 Religion and Contemporary Context

3.1 The Jubilee Year and Aldus's Christian Humanism

3.2 Pope Leo X and European Colonialism

4 Marketing and Advertising

Italian War Chronicles in Hernando Colón's Universal Library. The Case of Perosino della Rotonda

1 Hernando Colón's Universal Library. A Repository for European Popular Print

2 The Dispersion of Colón's Library

3 A (Almost) Forgotten Bestselling Cantimbanco

4 Lost and Found. El concilio del Re de Francia (ca. 1517)

Appendix. Transcription of El concilio del re de Francia (Paris, BNF, 4-YD-9)

The Material Culture of Mobility. A Pilgrim's Books between Italy, the Holy Land, and Switzerland

Ferdinand of Aragon and the Importance of Print

2 A Cohesive Communication Strategy

3 The Legacy of the Trial

Boosting an Anti-Jewish Narrative with Humanist Means. Nikolaus Marschalk and Sternberg 1492

1 The Example of Sternberg, 1492

2 From News to Memory. The Case of Nikolaus Marschalk's Mons Stellarum

3 Re-narrating and Re-inventing the Sternberg Events.

4 Humanist Antisemitism?

Publications About the Poor Conrad Uprising (1514) in Context. Broadsides, Letters, and Print Runs in Early Modern Germany

1 Publications About Events in Early Modern Germany

2 Poor Conrad Uprising

2.1 Intended Audience

3 Estimating the Size of Audiences with the Help of Print Runs

4 Conclusion

The French Conquest of Milan in Venetian and Milanese Prints

1 The Event

2 Venice

3 Milan

4 Overview

The 1472 Comet and the Reactions of its Observers. Words, Manuscripts, Print

2 The Comet and the Early Printed Book as Mass Medium

3 Conclusions

Information, Propaganda, and Entertainment. Francesco Allegri in Renaissance Venice

1 Who was Francesco Allegri?

2 Venice, the Turks, and a "Governmental Journalist"

3 How Allegri Worked

Prato, 6 July 1484. The Miracle of Santa Maria delle Carceri as a Media Event

Contributors.

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ISBN:

3-11-222171-0

9783112221716

OCLC:

1555344265