The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance

The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 492
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9789004208490
ISBN-13 : 9004208496
Rating : 4/5 (496 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance by : Angela Nuovo

Download or read book The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance written by Angela Nuovo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers the first English-language survey of the book industry in Renaissance Italy. Whereas traditional accounts of the book in the Renaissance celebrate authors and literary achievement, this study examines the nuts and bolts of a rapidly expanding trade that built on existing economic practices while developing new mechanisms in response to political and religious realities. Approaching the book trade from the perspective of its publishers and booksellers, this archive-based account ranges across family ambitions and warehouse fires to publishers' petitions and convivial bookshop conversation. In the process it constructs a nuanced picture of trading networks, production, and the distribution and sale of printed books, a profitable but capricious commodity. Originally published in Italian as Il commercio librario nell’Italia del Rinascimento (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1998; second, revised ed., 2003), this present English translation has not only been updated but has also been deeply revised and augmented.


The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance Related Books

The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance
Language: en
Pages: 492
Authors: Angela Nuovo
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-17 - Publisher: BRILL

GET EBOOK

This work offers the first English-language survey of the book industry in Renaissance Italy. Whereas traditional accounts of the book in the Renaissance celebr
On Tyranny
Language: en
Pages: 359
Authors: Leo Strauss
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

GET EBOOK

On Tyranny is Leo Strauss’s classic reading of Xenophon’s dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advant
Loss and the Other in the Visionary Work of Anna Maria Ortese
Language: en
Pages: 319
Authors: Vilma DeGasperin
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

GET EBOOK

Combines theme and genre analysis in a study of the Italian author, from her first literary writings in the 1930s to her novels in the 1990s.
Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Silvia Valisa
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Toronto Italian Studies

GET EBOOK

Combining close textual readings with a broad theoretical perspective, this book is a study of the ways in which gender shapes the characters and narratives of
The Bilingual Text
Language: en
Pages: 247
Authors: Jan Walsh Hokenson
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-03 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

Bilingual texts have been left outside the mainstream of both translation theory and literary history. Yet the tradition of the bilingual writer, moving between