Ephemeral city : cheap print and urban culture in Renaissance Venice /
'Ephemeral City' explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance. It offers the first view of one of the city's most productive and creative industries from the bottom up and a new and unexpected vision of Renaissance culture, char...
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 'Every piece of rubbish given to the press' : defining and debating cheap print
- 'Through the piazzas and on the Rialto Bridge' : the landscape of the ephemeral city
- 'A trade open to any mortal man' : mobility and versatility in the Venetian printing industry
- 'In the mouths of charlatans' : pamphlets from print shop to piazza
- 'Extreme disorder and confusion' : policing the ephemeral city
- Conclusion.