By Malcolm Walsby, Graeme Kemp (editors)
Books revealed within the 15th century were the topic of a lot in-depth study. by contrast, the start of the 16th century has no longer attracted an identical scholarly curiosity. This quantity brings jointly reviews that constitution the improvement of printing and bookselling all through Europe through the 16th and 17th centuries. It provides new learn and research at the effect of the Reformation, on how texts have been transmitted and at the complicated relationships that affected the construction and sale of books. the result's a wide-ranging reappraisal of an important interval within the historical past of the published book.Contributors contain Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik, J??rgen Beyer, Amy Nelson Burnett, Neil Harris, Brenda M. Hosington, Johannes Hund, Henning P. J??rgens, Justyna Kiliaczyk-Ziba, Hans-J?¶rg K??nast, Urs Bernhard Leu, Matthew McLean, Andrew Pettegree, David Shaw, Christoph Volkmar, Hanno Wijsman and Alexander Wilkinson.
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Venice strangely produced few writers of its own, so major new works often had a first edition in a minor centre, close to the author’s home, before migrating to the presses of the Serenissima. Such was the case of the two great fifteenth-century chivalric romances, Pulci’s Morgante (Florence 1478? first surviving edition 1482) and Boiardo’s Orlando 6 ╇ Information about books in Italian printed outside Italy can be found in the Shorttitle Catalogue of Italian Books, as well as through the Edit16 project; but a specific bibliography dedicated to the theme is that by N.
E. it took a raw material (paper), enhanced it (printing), and sold it as an expensive product (books) to people who had no real need of it. The process called not only for technical and design skills to make these early impressed artefacts resemble the luxury manuscripts they were supplanting, but also significant investment to keep the firm afloat while sales generated revenue, as well as access to transport systems that could move the books widely and swiftly. Venice became the Taiwan of the Renaissance printing industry: it flooded markets near and far with products that were of better quality and, despite the distribution costs, cheaper than what was turned out locally.
24 ╇ Most notably in Spanish. Jean Peeters-Fontainas, Bibliographie des impressions espagnoles des Pays-Bas méridionaux, 2 vols. (Nieuwkoop, 1965). 25 ╇ F. Claes, Lijst van Nederlandse woordenlijsten en woordenboeken gedrukt tot 1600 (Nieuwkoop, 1974). ╛╛╛printing in the low countries in the early 16th century15 Artois, of Walloon Flanders, and the familiar tongue of the Burgundian court. It was also, crucially, the dominant language of the developing genres of narrative recreational literature.