Rosa Salzberg

Ephemeral city

Cheap print and urban culture in Renaissance Venice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780719087035
• ISBN-10: 0719087031
• Artikelnr.: 41195101

Autorenporträt

Rosa Salzberg is Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance History at the University of Warwick

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. 'Every piece of rubbish given to the press': defining and
debating cheap print 2. 'Through the piazzas and on the Rialto Bridge': the
landscape of the ephemeral city 3. 'A trade open to any mortal man':
mobility and versatility in the Venetian printing industry 4. 'In the
mouths of charlatans': pamphlets from print shop to piazza 5. 'Extreme
disorder and confusion': policing the ephemeral city Conclusion
Bibliography Index