Aldus Manutius: The Invention of the Publisher: Renaissance Lives
Autor Oren Margolisen Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 dec 2023
Aldus Manutius is perhaps the greatest figure in the history of the printed book: in Venice, Europe’s capital of printing, he invented the italic type and issued more first editions of the classics than anyone before or since, as well as Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, the most beautiful and mysterious printed book of the Italian Renaissance.
This is the first monograph in English on Aldus Manutius in over forty years. It shows how Aldus redefined the role of a book printer, from mere manual laborer to a learned publisher. As a consequence, Aldus participated in the same debates as contemporaries such as Leonardo da Vinci and Erasmus of Rotterdam, making this book an insight into their world too.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781789147797
ISBN-10: 1789147794
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 20 color plates, 20 halftones
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Seria Renaissance Lives
ISBN-10: 1789147794
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 20 color plates, 20 halftones
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Seria Renaissance Lives
Notă biografică
Oren Margolis is a lecturer in renaissance studies at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of The Politics of Culture in Quattrocento Europe: René of Anjou in Italy.
Cuprins
Note on Names and Translations
Introduction
1 Carpi and Venice
2 After Daedalus
3 Divine Impressions
4 The Printer as Prince
Epilogue: Utopia
Chronology
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
Introduction
1 Carpi and Venice
2 After Daedalus
3 Divine Impressions
4 The Printer as Prince
Epilogue: Utopia
Chronology
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index
Recenzii
"Aldus Manutius is the bibliophile’s bibliophile . . . Anyone who has sat in the park with a paperback has Aldus to thank for freeing the book from the library, the desk, the metal chain that sometimes bound books to shelves . . . Margolis’s biography – the first in English for forty years – was occasioned by the 500th anniversary of Aldus’s death, an anniversary that prompted a flurry of international exhibitions, catalogues and scholarship . . . Margolis’s book is an elegant visual biography that beautifully reproduces woodcuts, fonts, paintings, coins, letters, dedications, prefaces. It’s a cultural history of Aldus the myth, not Aldus the man. A stylish book, worthy of its stylish subject."
"The central argument of Oren Margolis’s short, excellent new biography is that Aldus’s primary concern was not the books themselves, but the intellectual programme they represented. Far from being an inky-fingered pressman, Margolis’s Aldus is a serious, sometimes waspish humanist, determined to shape the scholarship of his day by bringing the classical Greek corpus into print in rigorously edited texts."
"Valuable for scholars of the history of the book. . . . Recommended."
"Margolis consciously eschews the idea of a conventional biography, announcing early on that he will instead argue for Manutius’s role as the inventor of publishing as we know it today . . . Margolis consistently displays both breadth and depth of knowledge in his analysis of early modern printing, Renaissance humanism, and the book trade . . . an erudite and well-researched book about an important figure of the Italian Renaissance . . . As the title suggests, Aldus Manutius was responsible for the invention of the modern publisher."
"Margolis’s study of Aldus Manutius is a hugely thoughtful, stimulating, and innovative reassessment of the career of this key Renaissance figure. He seeks to understand the persistent myths which have accreted around Aldus by recontextualizing them with unexpected and illuminating connections and through detailed and fresh analysis of certain phases and achievements in his life. The result is a vivid and persuasively argued view of Aldus’s cultural significance."