Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers Volume 20

by Anthony Grafton

Book Overview

The style of reading in Renaissance Europe, as seen in the margins of books and in the texts of Renaissance intellectuals themselves, is deftly charted in this welcome volume from Anthony Grafton. Growing out of the Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures that Anthony Grafton gave at the University of Michigan in 1992, this book describes the interaction between books and readers in the Renaissance, as seen in four major case studies. Humanists Alberti, Pico,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472034383
• ISBN13: 9780472034383
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"