Editorial: Harvard University Press
Colección: The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance Delivered at Villa I Tatti
Número de páginas: 256 págs.
Fecha de edición: 15-12-2023
EAN: 9780674660236
ISBN: 978-0-674-66023-6
Precio (sin IVA): 45,50 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 47,32 €
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.