Ephemeral City: Cheap Print and Urban Culture in Renaissance Venice - Rilegato

Salzberg, Rosa

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0719087031 ISBN 13: 9780719087035

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

Ephemeral city explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance. In contrast to the familiar image of Venice as the tranquil, ordered 'Serenissima', it evokes the noisy, shifting, transient life of the city at street-level, and offers the first view of one of the city's most productive and creative industries from the bottom up. The result is a new and unexpected vision of Renaissance culture, characterised by the fluid mobility and dynamic intermingling of texts, ideas, goods and people.

The book follows the flood of cheap print (pamphlets, fliers and broadsheets) that streamed from Venetian presses from the late fifteenth century - the most visible and accessible products of the press, often peddled in the streets and declaimed by public performers. Closely intertwined with oral culture, such texts helped to open up new publics for literature, providing information and entertainment to diverse audiences and transforming the city into an epicentre of vernacular literature and performance. Examining the ways in which the production and dissemination of cheap print infiltrated the Venetian urban environment and changed the course of the city's cultural life, the book also traces how local authorities sought to channel these flows by escalating censorship and control over the course of the sixteenth century.

The book will be of interest to scholars and students of early modern European and Italian Renaissance culture and society and the history of the book and communication.

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Recensione:

'This vivid study gives for the first time solid form to an elusive topic, viewing this thriving and distinctive sector of the city's commerce both from street level and from the perspective of the state and the Roman Church as they struggled to control it.' --Emeritus Professor Brian Richardson, University of Leeds

'It is only very occasionally that a book comes along that opens up an entirely new field, but this is certainly the case with this sparklingly original study. Rosa Salzberg brings this forgotten world vividly to life in a work of great charm and outstanding forensic skill.' --Professor Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews

'A hugely impressive work that throws new light on the less known aspects of the Renaissance's largest publishing centre... This is a brilliant example of the most beautifully written, and entertaining, scholarship.' --Filippo De Vivo, Birkbeck College, London

L'autore:

Rosa Salzberg is Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance History at the University of Warwick
Rosa Salzberg is Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance History at the University of Warwick

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0719087031
• ISBN 13: 9780719087035
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 199