Print Culture in Renaissance Italy: The Editor and the Vernacular Text, 1470-1600

Print Culture in Renaissance Italy: The Editor and the Vernacular Text, 1470-1600

by Brian Richardson
ISBN-10:
0521420326
ISBN-13:
9780521420327
Pub. Date:
06/16/1994
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
0521420326
ISBN-13:
9780521420327
Pub. Date:
06/16/1994
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Print Culture in Renaissance Italy: The Editor and the Vernacular Text, 1470-1600

Print Culture in Renaissance Italy: The Editor and the Vernacular Text, 1470-1600

by Brian Richardson

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Overview

The emergence of print in late fifteenth-century Italy gave a crucial new importance to the editors of texts, who could strongly influence the interpretation and status of texts by determining the form and context in which they would be read. Brian Richardson examines the Renaissance production, circulation and reception of texts by earlier writers including Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio and Ariosto, as well as popular contemporary works of entertainment. In so doing he sheds light on the impact of the new printing and editing methods on Renaissance culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521420327
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 06/16/1994
Series: Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 284
Product dimensions: 6.06(w) x 9.29(h) x 1.02(d)

Table of Contents

1. Printers, authors and the rise of the editor; 2. Editors and their methods; 3. Humanists, friars and others: editing in Venice and Florence, 1470–1500; 4. Bembo and his influence, 1501–1530; 5. Venetian editors and 'the grammatical norm', 1501–1530; 6. Standardisation and scholarship: editing in Florence, 1501–1530; 7. Towards a wider readership: editing in Venice, 1531–1545; 8. The editor triumphant: editing in Venice, 1546–1560; 9. In search of a cultural identity: editing in Florence, 1531–1560; 10. Piety and elegance: editing in Venice, 1561–1600; 11. 'A true and living image': editing in Florence, 1561–1600; Conclusion.
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