A Marvelous Solitude : The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe
ISBN: 9780674294912
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Harvard University Press
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Subjects: General Works/ Reference;

The sense of reading as an intimate act of self-discovery--and of communion between authors and book lovers--has a long history. Lina Bolzoni returns to Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Montaigne, and Tasso, exploring how Renaissance humanists began to represent reading as a private encounter and a dialogue across barriers of time and space.


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