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A Marvelous Solitude

The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe

By: Lina Bolzoni

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A Marvelous Solitude

The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe

By: Lina Bolzoni

A preeminent Renaissance scholar illuminates early modern encounters with books, in which literature became a portal to self-awareness and miraculous communion between author and reader. The experience of reading is often presented as personal and transformative—a journey of self-discovery and, perhaps, renewal. In A Marvelous Solitude, Lina Bolzoni examines the early modern roots of this attitude toward the readerly act. Between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, European men of letters increasingly came to see books as something more than compendia of knowledge: they could also help readers understand the human condition. As Bolzoni shows, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Montaigne, and Tasso all presented reading as a private encounter and a dialogue with the author. For many Renaissance intellectuals, reading was instrumental to the construction of the self, which was enriched by contact with other learned men. These readers imagined the book as a mirror image of its author, with whom they held a secret affinity. In their letters to one another, humanists described the book as a body, reflecting the notion that reading literature placed its author in the room with oneself. Reading the work of a deceased author became akin to a necromantic rite, as the writers of bygone times were resurrected and placed in contemporary conversation. The vogue for hanging portraits of authors in libraries and studios ensured that the image of the creator was never far from his words, cementing bonds of friendship across barriers of time. These myths—charming, fragile, and powerful—invested the readerly encounter with miraculous properties that lingered in the hearts of the Romantics. And something of those wonders persists today, in the intimate feeling that reading yet provokes.

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Harvard University Press

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0674294904

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The Gallery of Memory

Literary and Iconographic Models in the Age of the Printing Press

By: Lina Bolzoni

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The Gallery of Memory

Literary and Iconographic Models in the Age of the Printing Press

By: Lina Bolzoni

This 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.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802043305

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9780802043306

Shakespeare's Memory Theatre

Recollection, Properties, and Character

By: Lina Perkins Wilder

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Shakespeare's Memory Theatre

Recollection, Properties, and Character

By: Lina Perkins Wilder

Wilder examines the excessive remembering of figures such as Romeo, Falstaff, and Hamlet as a way of defining Shakespeare's theatricality.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521764556

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9780521764551

A Marvelous Solitude

The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe

By: Lina Bolzoni

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A Marvelous Solitude

The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe

By: Lina Bolzoni

The sense of reading as an intimate act of self-discovery--and of communion between authors and book lovers--has a long history. Lina Bolzoni returns to Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Montaigne, and Tasso, exploring how Renaissance humanists began to represent reading as a private encounter and a dialogue across barriers of time and space.

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The Gallery of Memory

Literary and Iconographic Models in the Age of the Printing Press

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A Marvelous Solitude

A Marvelous Solitude

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Shakespeare's Memory Theatre

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A Marvelous Solitude

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The Gallery of Memory

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