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Brilliant Discourse: Pictures and Readers in Early Modern Rome
Evelyn Lincoln
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Description for Brilliant Discourse: Pictures and Readers in Early Modern Rome
Hardback. Sixteenth-century Roman presses turned out hundreds of technical treatises and learned discourses written in the vernacular. This book follows the story of the Roman illustrated book from the printed page back out to the Renaissance streets, piazzas, palaces, convents and bookshops where these publications, carefully shepherded through the press. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 colour images + 120 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; ACN; AKLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 204 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1280.
Sixteenth-century Roman presses turned out hundreds of technical treatises and learned discourses written in the vernacular. Covering topics as diverse as the cultivation of silkworms, the lives of the saints, and the order of the cosmos, they made esoteric knowledge accessible to a broad spectrum of readers. Many of these books were illustrated with beautiful etchings, engravings, or woodcuts, and some were written in the form of theatrical and engaging dialogues. For writers, publishers, printers, and artists, bringing such books into the world changed the lives of those involved in their production. The process of publication, a risky business in ... Read more
Sixteenth-century Roman presses turned out hundreds of technical treatises and learned discourses written in the vernacular. Covering topics as diverse as the cultivation of silkworms, the lives of the saints, and the order of the cosmos, they made esoteric knowledge accessible to a broad spectrum of readers. Many of these books were illustrated with beautiful etchings, engravings, or woodcuts, and some were written in the form of theatrical and engaging dialogues. For writers, publishers, printers, and artists, bringing such books into the world changed the lives of those involved in their production. The process of publication, a risky business in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300204193
SKU
9780300204193
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About Evelyn Lincoln
Evelyn Lincoln is professor of the history of art and architecture and Italian studies at Brown University.
Reviews for Brilliant Discourse: Pictures and Readers in Early Modern Rome
'Evelyn Lincoln’s lucid, imaginative, and well-researched volume provides reassurance. . .because she has found a significant niche in which the material object and the cultural object are inextricable. . .The illustrated book becomes, in the figurative if not the literal sense, a work in three dimensions. Which in the end is true of Brilliant Discourse itself, a beautifully produced volume ... Read more