Author: Horatio Forbes BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : it
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Venetian Printing Press
Author: Horatio Forbes BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : it
Pages : 536
Book Description
Music Printing in Renaissance Venice
Author: Jane A. BernsteinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019977160X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
Book Description
Venetian music print culture of the mid-sixteenth century is presented here through a study of the Scotto press, one of the foremost dynastic music publishers of the Renaissance. For over a century, the house of Scotto played a pivotal role in the international book trade, publishing in a variety of fields including philosophy, medicine, religion, and music. This book examines the mercantile activities of the firm through both a historical study, which illuminates the wide world of the Venetian music printing industry, and a catalog, which details the music editions brought out by the firm during its most productive period. A valuable reference work, this book not only enhances our understanding of the socioeconomic and cultural history of Renaissance Venice, it also helps to preserve our knowledge of a vast musical repertory.
Print Culture and Music in Sixteenth-century Venice
Author: Jane A. BernsteinPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195141083
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This volume examines the commerce of music and its connection to the printing and publishing industry in mid-sixteenth century Venice. It presents a broad portrayal of the Venetial music booktrade and explores business strategies.
Bound in Venice
Author: Alessandro Marzo MagnoPublisher: Europa Editions
ISBN: 160945152X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
This early history of printed literature “delves into the delectable intrigues of Renaissance Venice with a degree of detail that will mesmerize readers” (La Repubblica). This accessible yet erudite history traces the incredible rise of publishing in the Republic of Venice, the Renaissance’s era of global capital of culture and trade. While a number of Venetian innovators drove this new enterprise, one in particular, Aldus Manutius, stands head and shoulders above the rest. Manutius tirelessly promoted the concept of reading for pleasure, and his Aldine Press commissioned the first modern typeface. Beginning in Venice and subsequently across much of the civilized world, bound printed editions of the Talmud, the Koran, the works of Erasmus of Rotterdam, and classics of Greek and Latin poetry and theater began to circulate for the first time, leading to an unprecedented diffusion of human knowledge, and bringing about the birth of the modern world.
The Venetian Discovery of America
Author: Elizabeth HorodowichPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108687245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Few Renaissance Venetians saw the New World with their own eyes. As the print capital of early modern Europe, however, Venice developed a unique relationship to the Americas. Venetian editors, mapmakers, translators, writers, and cosmographers represented the New World at times as a place that the city's mariners had discovered before the Spanish, a world linked to Marco Polo's China, or another version of Venice, especially in the case of Tenochtitlan. Elizabeth Horodowich explores these various and distinctive modes of imagining the New World, including Venetian rhetorics of 'firstness', similitude, othering, comparison, and simultaneity generated through forms of textual and visual pastiche that linked the wider world to the Venetian lagoon. These wide-ranging stances allowed Venetians to argue for their different but equivalent participation in the Age of Encounters. Whereas historians have traditionally focused on the Spanish conquest and colonization of the New World, and the Dutch and English mapping of it, they have ignored the wide circulation of Venetian Americana. Horodowich demonstrates how with their printed texts and maps, Venetian newsmongers embraced a fertile tension between the distant and the close. In doing so, they played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.
Early Venetian Printing Illustrated
Author: Ferdinando OnganiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music printing
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A collection of facsimile illustrations of pages from early printed books, initials, borders, title-pages, printers' marks, art bindings, etc., with short introductions by Carlo Castellani (p. 9-[20]) on Venetian printing, printers' marks, water-marks and music printing; also a note on bindings (p. 217-218).
The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance
Author: Angela NuovoPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004208496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
This work offers the first English-language survey of the book industry in Renaissance Italy. Whereas traditional accounts of the book in the Renaissance celebrate authors and literary achievement, this study examines the nuts and bolts of a rapidly expanding trade that built on existing economic practices while developing new mechanisms in response to political and religious realities. Approaching the book trade from the perspective of its publishers and booksellers, this archive-based account ranges across family ambitions and warehouse fires to publishers' petitions and convivial bookshop conversation. In the process it constructs a nuanced picture of trading networks, production, and the distribution and sale of printed books, a profitable but capricious commodity. Originally published in Italian as Il commercio librario nell’Italia del Rinascimento (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1998; second, revised ed., 2003), this present English translation has not only been updated but has also been deeply revised and augmented.
Music Printing in Renaissance Venice
Author: Jane A. BernsteinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195102314
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
Venetian music print culture of the mid-sixteenth century is presented here through a study of the Scotto press, one of the foremost dynastic music publishers of the Renaissance. For over a century, the house of Scotto played a pivotal role in the international book trade, publishing in a variety of fields including philosophy, medicine, religion, and music. This book examines the mercantile activities of the firm through both a historical study, which illuminates the wide world of the Venetian music printing industry, and a catalog, which details the music editions brought out by the firm during its most productive period. A valuable reference work, this book not only enhances our understanding of the socioeconomic and cultural history of Renaissance Venice, it also helps to preserve our knowledge of a vast musical repertory.
The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
Author: Elizabeth L. EisensteinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521299558
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
A full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change, first published in 1980.
The Floating Book
Author: Michelle LovricPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140884284X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 595
Book Description
Venice, 1468. Sosia Simeon, a free-spirited sensualist, is the lover of many men in the fabled city, though married to one she despises. On the edge of the Grand Canal, Wendelin von Speyer sets up the first printing press in Venice and looks for the book that will make his fortune. When he tempts fate by publishing Catullus, the poet whose desperate and unrequited love inspired the most tender and erotic poems of antiquity, a scandal is set in motion that will change all their lives forever.