| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 332 pages, viii pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Toronto Italian studies |
|
Toronto Italian studies.
|
| Contents |
1. Making knowledge visible : the Accademia Veneziana -- 2. Trees of knowledge and rhetorical machines -- 3. Memory games -- 4. Body and soul : the nature of images -- 5. How to translate words into images : memory and invention -- 6. The art of memory and collecting |
| Summary |
Lina Bolzoni's impressive study of the memory culture of sixteenth-century Italy appears here for the first time in English translation. Since its original incarnation as La stanza della memoria: Modelli letterari e iconografici nell'età della stampa, published by Einaudi of Torino in 1995, Bolzoni's study has been praised by critics and ranked with the classic texts in its field -- those by Paolo Rossi, Frances Yates and Mary Carruthers. The book takes as its starting point a striking paradox: that the antique tradition of the art of memory -- created by an oral culture -- reached its moment of greatest diffusion during an age that saw the birth of the printed book. Bolzoni's examination of this phenomenon, in which archaic and modern elements came together in a precarious equilibrium, reveals the profound ties that existed at the time between memory and creativity, and between words and images. Drawing on the multiplicity of practices that relied on techniques of memory, Bolzoni presents diagrams, cipher alphabets, rebuses and emblemlike pictures characteristic of the late-Medieval and early-modern periods, indicating their use for literary games and preaching. In doing so, she skilfully reconstructs a particular mentality, a way of apprehending words and images that was of central importance for a long period of time but that has since been forgotten.-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-318) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the Italian |
|
Lina Bolzoni is Professor of Italian Literature, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. Jeremy Parzen earned his Ph. D. in Italian Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is an independent scholar living in New York City |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Manuzio, Paolo, 1512-1574.
|
| SUBJECT |
Manuzio, Paolo, 1512-1574 fast |
| Subject |
Accademia Veneziana.
|
| SUBJECT |
Accademia Veneziana fast |
| Subject |
Printing -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 16th century
|
|
Mnemonics.
|
|
Italian literature -- Italy -- Venice -- History and criticism
|
|
Italian literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism
|
|
Early printed books -- Italy -- Venice -- 16th century -- Bibliography
|
|
Illustration of books -- Italy -- 16th century
|
|
Memory -- History -- 16th century
|
|
CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Book Printing & Binding.
|
|
DESIGN -- Book.
|
|
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades.
|
|
HISTORY -- Renaissance.
|
|
Memory
|
|
Illustration of books
|
|
Early printed books
|
|
Intellectual life
|
|
Italian literature
|
|
Mnemonics
|
|
Printing
|
|
Bild
|
|
Erinnerung
|
|
Literatur
|
|
Semiotik
|
|
Boekdrukkunst.
|
|
Literatuur.
|
|
Illustraties.
|
|
Geheugentraining.
|
|
Bild.
|
|
Gedächtnis.
|
|
Geschichte.
|
|
Italienisch.
|
|
Literatur.
|
|
Semiotik.
|
| SUBJECT |
Venice (Italy) -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
|
|
Venice (Italy) -- Imprints
|
| Subject |
Italy
|
|
Italy -- Venice
|
|
Italienisch.
|
| Genre/Form |
e-books.
|
|
Bibliographies
|
|
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
|
History
|
|
Livres numériques.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Parzen, Jeremy, translator.
|
| ISBN |
9781442681330 |
|
1442681330 |
|
9781282028500 |
|
1282028502 |
|
9786612028502 |
|
6612028505 |
|
