Presentation copy. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Contents: Preface / Walter Kaiser -- Introduction / David S. Zeidberg -- Tra il Giglio e l'Ancora. Uomini, idee e libri nella bottega di Manuzio / Piero Scapecchi -- The manutius publicity campaign / Martin Lowry -- Pietro Bembo's edition of Petrarch and his association with the Aldine Press / Cecil H. Clough -- Die Aldina der griechischen Epistolographen (1499) / Martin Sicherl -- The Aldine Italic / Nicolas Barker -- Aldo e l'invenzione dell'Indice / Carlo Vecce -- Aldus, Greek, and the shape of the "classical corpus" / Ralph Hexter -- Benedetto Bordon, Aldus Manutius and LucAntonio Giunta. Old links and new / Lilian Armstrong -- Bordon, D�rer and Modes of Illuminating Aldines / Helena K. Sz�pe -- Le Aldine miniate della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana / Angela Dillon Bussi -- Reading the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in the Cinquecento. Marginal notes in a copy at Modena / Dorothea Stichel -- Was there an Aldine bindery? / Anthony Hobson -- The Latin grammar of Aldus Manutius and its Fortuna / Kristian Jensen -- Paulus Manutius In Aedibus Populi Romani. The campaign for Rome / H. George Fletcher -- Aldus Manutius's influence in the hispanic world / Clive Griffin. Subjects: Manuzio, Aldo 1449 or 1450-1515 ; Congresses. Murphy, Franklin D. 1916- ; Homenajes. Printing Italy Venice History ; Congresses. Humanism Italy Venice History ; Congresses. 3 Kg.

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Title: Aldus Manutius and Renaissance culture : essays in memory of Franklin D. Murphy : acts of an international conference, Venice and Florence, 14-17 June 1994 / edited by David S. Zeidberg with the assistance of Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi
Publisher: Florence : L.S. Olschki
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 882224575X
ISBN 13: 9788822245755
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st edition.
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Weight: 3 kilograms
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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