A marvelous solitude

• Verfasst von: Bolzoni, Lina [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: A marvelous solitude
• Titelzusatz: the art of reading in early modern Europe
• Mitwirkende: Greenup, Sylvia [ÜbersetzerIn]
• Werktitel: Una meravigliosa solitudine
• Verf.angabe: Lina Bolzoni ; translated by Sylvia Greenup
• Verlagsort: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: ix, 246 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 24 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance
• ISBN: 978-0-674-66023-6
• Schlagwörter: (s)Buch / (s)Lesen / (s)Literatur / (s)Psychologie / (g)Europa
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Übersetzung von : italienischBolzoni, Lina, 1947 - : Una meravigliosa solitudine
• RVK-Notation: AN 39100
• RVK-Notation: EC 2010
• K10plus-PPN: 1848078870

Abstract

"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