The Book Trade in the Italian Renaissance

by Angela Nuovo

This work offers the first English-language survey of the book industry in Renaissance Italy. Where traditional accounts of the book in the Renaissance celebrate authors and literary achievement, this study examines the nuts and bolts of a rapidly expanding trade that built on existing economic practices while developing new mechanisms in response to political and religious realities. Approaching the book trade from the perspective of its publishers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900430097X
• ISBN13: 9789004300972
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 492 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"