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 betw...

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Main Author:	Bolzoni, Lina (Author)
Other Authors:	Greenup, Sylvia (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English Italian
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2023.
Series:	Bernard Berenson lectures on the Italian Renaissance.
Subjects:	Books and reading > Europe > History. Books and reading > Psychological aspects. Literature > History and criticism. Livres et lecture > Europe > Histoire. Livres et lecture > Aspect psychologique. Littérature > Histoire et critique. HISTORY / Europe / Italy. Books and reading. Literature. Europe. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Summary:	"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 dialogue between reader and author."--