With the advent of the printing press throughout Europe in the last quarter of the fifteenth century, the key Latin texts of Italian humanism began to be published outside Italy, most of them by a small group of printers who, in most cases, worked in close collaboration with lec…
In Divine Art, Infernal Machine, Eisenstein, author of the hugely influential The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, has written a magisterial and highly readable account of five centuries of ambivalent attitudes toward printing and printers. Once again, she makes a compellin…
There is a longstanding confusion of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's one-time business partner, with the notorious Doctor Faustus. The association is not surprising to Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, for from its very early days the printing press was viewed by some as black magic. For the mo…
In Divine Art, Infernal Machine, Eisenstein, author of the hugely influential The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, has written a magisterial and highly readable account of five centuries of ambivalent attitudes toward printing and printers. Once again, she makes a compellin…
Through entries on 291 Italian books (451 editions) published in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, covering the years 1558-1603, this catalogue represents a summary of current research and knowledge of diffusion of Italian culture on English literature in this perio…
"Through entries on 291 Italian books (451 editions) published in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, covering the years 1558-1603, this catalogue represents a summary of current research and knowledge of diffusion of Italian culture on English literature in this peri…
I. The introduction of printing in Florence: Bernardo Cennini and his family enterprise (1471-1472) -- Giorgio di Niccolò Baldesi, Giovanni di Piero da Magonza, and partners (1470-1473) -- Wool trade and printing -- II. Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna's first years of activity --…
The emergence of the book was an event of world historical importance, and heralded the dawning of modernity. In this history of that momentous process, the authors mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, with the study of modes of conscious…
Instructional texts and print symbolism: Christopher Plantin, Hieronymus Hornschuch, and Joseph Moxon -- An emergent typographic imaginary in William Caxton's Paratexts -- Robert Copland, Thomas Blague, and the printer-author dialogue -- Protestant printing and humanism in Bewar…
