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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: study
    sub title: the inner life of Renaissance libraries
  name:
    name part: Hui, Andrew
    name part: 1980-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 303 pages, [16] pages of plates (some color) : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: With the advent of the printing press in Europe, the possibility of assembling a personal library became more and more attainable for the cultural elite. In this book, Andrew Hui traces the historical development of the Renaissance studiolo, a personal study and library, from Petrarch to Montaigne, considering literary representations of the studiolo in Rabelais, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Marlowe as well as its presence in the visual arts. He explores the ways in which Renaissance writers and scholars engaged with these personal libraries, both real and imaginary, as places for research and refuge and the impact of their legacy on writers of our own age, such as Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino. Hui is interested in how these workspaces shaped the interior lives of their occupants, and how the bookish sanctuary they offered was cast as both a remedy and a poison for the soul. Painters of the period, for example, depicted such Biblical figures as the Virgin Mary and St. Jerome in studies surrounded by books, and some writers extolled the studiolo as a space for salutary self-reflection. But other writers suggested that too much time spent reading and amassing books could lead to bibliomania: it drove Don Quixote to madness, Faustus to perdition, Prospero to exile. Individual chapters focus on the invention of the studiolo as seen through Federico da Montefeltro's Gubbio Studiolo and Raphael's School of Athens, Rabelais's parodies of erudition and classification, the transformation of private study into self-conscious spectacle in The Tempest and more. While primarily drawing on works from Renaissance Europe, the chapters range across time and geography, incorporating a more global and comparative approach by drawing on texts from the classical tradition of China. Throughout the book, Hui weaves in accounts of his own life with books and libraries, arguing that to study the history of reading, scholars must also become aware of their own history of readings.
  table of contents: Part I. Bibliophilia -- Antiquity Face to Face -- Invention of the Studiolo -- Bookishness and Sanctity -- How to Build a Library with Montaigne -- Part II. Bibliomania -- Ark, Abyss, Abundance -- The World as Text in Don Quixote -- The Tempest as Wunderkammer -- Faustus in His Study -- Epilogue: The Wordless Library.
  note: Andrew Hui.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Private libraries
    topic: History
    temporal: 1400-1600
  subject:
    topic: Humanists
    topic: Books and reading
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Private libraries
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Books and reading
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Learning and scholarship
    topic: History
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bibliophilia
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Bibliomania
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
  subject:
    topic: ART / History / Renaissance
  classification: Z997.A1 H85 2025
  classification: 027/.109
  identifier: 9780691243320
  identifier: 0691243328
  identifier: 9780691243337
  identifier: 0691243336
  identifier: 2024004204
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240624
    record change date: 20260615203424.0
    record identifier: in00005645604