The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries - Hardcover
by Andrew Hui
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691243320ISBN-10:691243328UPC:9780691243320Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Books & Reading, Renaissance, EuropeBook Topic:RenaissanceSize:9.30 x 6.20 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.541Product ID:SCP92GVD8E
The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries
A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance library
With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance studiolo--a "little studio"--and reveals how these spaces dedicated to self-cultivation became both a...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691243320ISBN-10:691243328UPC:9780691243320Book Category:Literary Criticism, HistoryBook Subcategory:Books & Reading, Renaissance, EuropeBook Topic:RenaissanceSize:9.30 x 6.20 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.541Product ID:SCP92GVD8E
Andrew Hui is associate professor of humanities at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. He is the author of A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter (Princeton) and The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature.
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