This book studies the uses of orality in Italian society, across all classes, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, with an emphasis on the interrelationships between oral communication and the written word. Part 1 concerns public life in the states of northern, central, and southern Italy. Part 2 centres on private entertainments and cons
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