Marvelous Solitude - The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe

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.

About the author

Lina Bolzoni is Professor Emerita of Italian Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. She is the author of The Gallery of Memory and The Web of Images, among other titles.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Lina Bolzoni, Bolzoni Lina
• Assisted by: Sylvia Greenup (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2023
• EAN: 9780674660236
• ISBN: 978-0-674-66023-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance Delivered at Villa I Tatti
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europe, European History, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, European history: Renaissance, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600