Print Culture in Renaissance Italy: The Editor and the Vernacular Text, 1470 1600 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521893022)

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.

Author: Brian Richardson
ISBN-10: 052189302X
ISBN-13: 9780521893022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/03/2002
Pages: 284
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.16w x 0.73d