The Journal of the Society for Renaissance Studies presents a special issue on Paratexts, Dissemination and the Book Market in Early Modern Venice (1500-1650), with articles from GEMS members Ruben Celani, Claudia Crocco, Teodoro Katinis, Eleonora Serra and Lies Verbaere. This collaboration consists of research across literature and linguistics.
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Featured articles
- Gazing at the Venetian hub from a paratextual lens: An introduction
Claudia Crocco and Teodoro Katinis - Advertising grammars and dictionaries in the Venetian printing market: A linguistic analysis of title pages
Eleonora Serra - ‘L’arte in prattica’: Reconstructing Orazio Toscanella’s language ideology
Claudia Crocco and Eleonora Serra - ‘Come parto imperfetto’: Paratexts and organization in a sixteenth-century book of secrets
Ruben Celani - The vernacularization of Paduan medicine and philosophy in the seventeenth century: Troilo Lancetta’s Raccolta medica, et astrologica
Craig Martin - ‘Materie piacevolissime da leggere e utili da essequire’: The introductory letters in Leonardo Fioravanti’s Capricci medicinali
Teodoro Katinis - ‘By consultation of elevated minds’: The role of paratexts in Giovanni Battista Calderari’s comedies
Lies Verbaere - Advertising doubt in early modern Italy: Doubt and ignorance in early modern paratexts
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