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Item Number: 108661
Title: I classici che hanno fatto l’Italia. Per un nuovo canone bio-bibliografico degli autori italiani
Author: Govi, Fabrizio
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9786600149288
Description: Modena: Regnani, 2010. 31cm., hardcover, 415pp. catalogue, 10pp. color plates, numerous b&w text illus. Summary: In comparison to Printing and the Mind of Man, which describes more than four hundred printed works that have marked the history of man in all major fields of knowledge, I Classici Che Hanno Fatto L'talia (or The Classics That Have Made Italy), offers itself as an ideal listing of only Italian authors (by birth or adoption), illustrating the history of Italian culture through a selection of works from the thirteenth century to the present. The publishing history of a text, whether a masterpiece or the work of a pioneering era, can be broken into two parts: information on the production and dissemination of works such as print runs, reprints, counterfeits, privileges, trade agreements, etc; and the mutual relationship between the press and the readers, showing how the printed book has influenced the way people read and write. Each work explained in the book calls special attention to editorial strategies such as format, font, illustrations, dedications, etc. The Classics That Have Made Italy is not just a list of prominent texts defining Italian history or a history of the Italian book from a typographic standpoint, but also a chronological overview of known printed texts. This book will be a great reference for collectors, as well as those who have never experienced the joy of leafing through an old book in original text. Each selected work provides the edition, background information, references to other editions, historical and cultural significance of the work, brief biography of the author, and an index. An essay examining the transformation of Italy from the fifteenth century is included by John Ragone.
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