A Marvelous Solitude. The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe, Hardback

The sense of reading as an intimate act of self-discovery—and of communion between authors and book lovers—has a long history. Lina Bolzoni returns to Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Montaigne, and Tasso, exploring how Renaissance humanists began to represent reading as a private encounter and a dialogue across barriers of time and space.

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Author(s): Lina Bolzoni
• Illustration(s): 55 photos
• Translator: Sylvia Greenup
• Number of pages: 256
• Collection: The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance Delivered at Villa I Tatti
• Publication date: 2023
• Dimensions: 163 x 244 x 27
• Cover type: Hardback