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

Salzberg, Rosa

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1784993441 ISBN 13: 9781784993443

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2016

Riassunto

Ephemeral city explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance. It offers the first view of one of the city's most productive and creative industries from the bottom up and a new and unexpected vision of Renaissance culture, characterised by the fluid mobility and dynamic intermingling of texts, ideas, goods and people.

Closely intertwined with oral culture and often peddled in the streets, cheap printed texts helped to open up new audiences for literature, providing information and entertainment to a diverse public 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 Venice's urban environment and changed the course of its cultural life, the book also traces how local authorities responded by escalating censorship and control over the course of the sixteenth century.

Ephemeral city 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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1784993441
• ISBN 13: 9781784993443
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 199