Manuscript Culture in Renaissance Italy

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Manuscript Culture in Renaissance Italy
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Brian Richardson
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:332
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreLiterary studies - classical, early and medieval
Literary studies - c 1500 to c 1800
ISBN/Barcode 9781107425521
ClassificationsDewey:850.9002
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 10 July 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Even after the arrival of printing in the fifteenth century, texts continued to be circulated within Italian society by means of manuscript. Scribal culture offered rapidity, flexibility and a sense of private, privileged communication. This book is a detailed treatment of the continuing use of scribal transmission in Renaissance Italy. Brian Richardson explores the uses of scribal culture within specific literary genres, its methods and its audiences. He also places it within the wider system of textual communication and of self-presentation, examining the relationships between manuscript and print and between manuscript and the spoken or sung performance of verse. An important contribution to a lively area of the history of the book, this study will be of interest both for the abundance of new material on the circulation of texts in Italy and as a model for how to study the cultures of manuscript and print in early modern Europe.

Author Biography

Brian Richardson is Professor of Italian Language at the University of Leeds.