The Gallery of Memory Literary and Iconographic Models in the Age of the Printing Press

Bolzoni, Lina/ Parzen, Jeremy (Translator)

ISBN 10: 1487524951 / ISBN 13: 9781487524951

Editore: Univ of Toronto Pr, 2019

reprint edition. 336 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock. Codice articolo __1487524951

Riassunto:

Lina Bolzoni's impressive study of the memory culture of sixteenth-century Italy appears here for the first time in English translation. Since its original incarnation as La stanza della memoria: Modelli letterari e iconografici nell'età della stampa, published by Einaudi of Torino in 1995, Bolzoni's study has been praised by critics and ranked with the classic texts in its field - those by Paolo Rossi, Frances Yates and Mary Carruthers.

The book takes as its starting point a striking paradox: that the antique tradition of the art of memory - created by an oral culture - reached its moment of greatest diffusion during an age that saw the birth of the printed book. Bolzoni's examination of this phenomenon, in which archaic and modern elements came together in a precarious equilibrium, reveals the profound ties that existed at the time between memory and creativity, and between words and images.

Drawing on the multiplicity of practices that relied on techniques of memory, Bolzoni presents diagrams, cipher alphabets, rebuses and emblemlike pictures characteristic of the late-Medieval and early-modern periods, indicating their use for literary games and preaching. In doing so, she skilfully reconstructs a particular mentality, a way of apprehending words and images that was of central importance for a long period of time but that has since been forgotten.

Informazioni sull?autore: Lina Bolzoni is Professor of Italian Literature, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Jeremy Parzen earned his Ph.D. in Italian Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is an independent scholar living in New York City.

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Titolo: The Gallery of Memory Literary and ...
Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr
Data di pubblicazione: 2019
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Brand New