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Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The experience of reading, in the modern age, is often presented as intimate, personal, transformative-a journey wherein the reader may both recognize and redesign the self. In A Marvelous Solitude, Lina Bolzoni examines the equivalent rituals and myths that learned men associated with reading between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. During this period, European men of letters-from Petrarch to Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Montaigne, and Tasso-began...
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