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Interactions between orality and writing in early modern Italian culture /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Degl'Innocenti, Luca (Editor), Richardson, Brian (Brian F.) (Editor), Sbordoni, Chiara (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
Subjects:
Italian literature > 16th century > History and criticism.
Italian literature > 17th century > History and criticism.
Oral tradition > Italy > History.
Oral tradition in literature.
Oral communication > Italy.
Language and culture > Italy.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Luca Degl'Innocenti and Brian Richardson
  • ORAL PERFORMANCES AND WRITTEN TEXTS. Oral and Manuscript Cultures in Early Modern Italy / Peter Burke
  • Paladins and Captains: Chivalric Clichés and Political Propaganda in Early Modern Italian War Poems / Luca Degl'Innocenti
  • Performance, Print, and the Italian Wars: Poemetti Bellici and the Case of Eustachio Celebrino's La presa di Roma / Jessica Goethals
  • Ahimé, ahi, o, deh: Interjections and Orality in lamenti during the Italian Wars / Florence Alazard
  • Orality and Print: Singing in the Street in Early Modern Venice / Iain Fenlon
  • Levels of Orality in the Published Scenarios of Flaminio Scala / Richard Andrews
  • Theories on Linguistic Variety in Renaissance Italy: Between Regional Identities and Oral Performance / Chiara Sbordoni
  • FUNCTIONS OF ORALITY IN THE WRITTEN WORD. Orality, Literacy, and Historiography in Neapolitan Vernacular Urban Chronicles of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries / Chiara De Caprio and Francesco Senatore
  • And the Voice of the People Climbed Parnassus: Lingua Napolitana from Street Dialect to Canon / Lorenza Gianfrancesco
  • Traces of Orality in Machiavelli's Prose / Jean-Louis Fournel
  • Nature versus Grammar: Annibal Caro's Apologia as a Manifesto for Orality / Stefano Jossa
  • ORALITY, THE LEARNED, AND LEARNING. Not by Books Alone: The Spoken Life of the Learned / Françoise Waquet
  • Oral, Manuscript, and Printed Circulation: The Many Lives of Benedetto Varchi's Lectures in the Accademia degli Infiammati of Padua / Roberta Giubilini
  • The Private and Public Sessions of the Accademia dei Ricovrati: Orality, Writing, and Print in Seventeenth-Century Padua / Warren Boutcher
  • Il passaggiere / The Passenger (1612): Benvenuto Italiano's Dialogues for Learning Spoken Italian / Vilma De Gasperin.