1st Edition

Interactions between Orality and Writing in Early Modern Italian Culture

270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

Investigating the interrelationships between orality and writing in elite and popular textual culture in early modern Italy, this volume shows how the spoken or sung word on the one hand, and manuscript or print on the other hand, could have interdependent or complementary roles to play in the creation and circulation of texts. The first part of the book centres on performances, ranging from... Read more
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Biography

Brian Richardson is Emeritus Professor of Italian Language at the University of Leeds, UK. Luca Degl’Innocenti and Chiara Sbordoni are Postdoctoral Fellows in Italian at the University of Leeds, UK.