Even after the arrival of printing in the fifteenth century, texts
continued to be circulated within Italian society by means of
manuscript. Scribal culture offered rapidity, flexibility and a
sense of private, privileged communication. This book is a detailed
treatment of the continuing use of scribal transmission in
Renaissance Italy. Brian Richardson explores the uses of scribal
culture within specific literary genres, its methods and its
audiences. He also places it within the wider system of textual
communication and of self-presentation, examining the relationships
between manuscript and print and between manuscript and the spoken
or sung performance of verse. An important contribution to a lively
area of the history of the book, this study will be of interest
both for the abundance of new material on the circulation of texts
in Italy and as a model for how to study the cultures of manuscript
and print in early modern Europe.
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