A Marvelous Solitude: The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe by Lina Bolzoni

A Marvelous Solitude: The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe

Lina Bolzoni with Sylvia Greenup (Translator)

272 pages first pub 2003 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history
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A preeminent Renaissance scholar illuminates early modern encounters with books, in which literature became a portal to self-awareness and miraculous communion between author and reader.The experience of reading is often presented as personal and ...

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