Greeks, books and libraries in Renaissance Venice
What does writing Greek books mean at the height of the Cinquecento in Venice? The present volume provides fascinating insights into Greek-language book production at a time when printed books were already at a rather advanced stage of development with regards to requests, purchases and exchanges of...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter
2021, ©2021
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | What does writing Greek books mean at the height of the Cinquecento in Venice? The present volume provides fascinating insights into Greek-language book production at a time when printed books were already at a rather advanced stage of development with regards to requests, purchases and exchanges of books; copying and borrowing practices; relations among intellectuals and with institutions, and much more. Based on the investigation into selected institutional and private libraries – in particular the book collection of Gabriel Severos, guide of the Greek Confraternity in Venice – the authors present new pertinent evidence from Renaissance books and documents, discuss methodological questions, and propose innovative research perspectives for a sociocultural approach to book histories. |
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| Item Description: | "Some of the contributions presented in this volume discuss material presented previously during the workshop Biblioteche private e produzione di libri manoscritti greci a Venezia nel Cinquecento (Private libraries and production of Greek manusript books in sixteenth-century Venice) held in Turin on 29th-30th June 2017" |
| Physical Description: | X, 401 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-3-11-057529-3 978-3-11-057708-2 |