MANUSCRIPT CULTURE IN RENAISSANCE

Informationen zum Autor Brian Richardson is Professor of Italian Language at the University of Leeds. Klappentext This book is an analysis of the circulation of texts in Renaissance Italy: in print, manuscript, and spoken word. Zusammenfassung This book is a detailed treatment of the continuing use of scribal transmission in Renaissance Italy and offers both an abundance of new material on the circulation of texts and a model for how to study the cultures of manuscript and print in early modern Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The contexts and characteristics of manuscript circulation; 2. Handwriting and the work of copyists; 3. The manuscript circulation of lyric and burlesque poetry; 4. The manuscript circulation of prose; 5. Authors and their readers: dedications and other paratexts; 6. Orality, manuscript and the circulation of verse; Conclusion; Index of manuscripts; Bibliography; General index.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Richardson, Richardson Brian
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.2009
• EAN: 9780521888479
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88847-9
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: general, Italian, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval