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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lina Bolzoni, Bolzoni Lina
• Con la collaborazione di: Sylvia Greenup (Traduzione)
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 05.12.2023
• EAN: 9780674660236
• ISBN: 978-0-674-66023-6
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance Delivered at Villa I Tatti
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; 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