A marvelous solitude the art of reading in early modern Europe

"The experience of reading, in the modern age, is often presented as intimate, personal, transformative-a journey wherein the reader may both recognize and redesign the self. In A Marvelous Solitude, Lina Bolzoni examines the equivalent rituals and myths that learned men associated with reading...

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1. Verfasser: Bolzoni, Lina (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Greenup, Sylvia (ÜbersetzerIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England Harvard University Press 2023
Schriftenreihe:The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance
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Zusammenfassung:"The experience of reading, in the modern age, is often presented as intimate, personal, transformative-a journey wherein the reader may both recognize and redesign the self. In A Marvelous Solitude, Lina Bolzoni examines the equivalent rituals and myths that learned men associated with reading between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. During this period, European men of letters-from Petrarch to Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Montaigne, and Tasso-began to represent reading itself as a
Beschreibung:ix, 246 Seiten
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24 cm
ISBN:9780674660236
978-0-674-66023-6