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Lina Bolzoni's impressive study of the memory culture of sixteenth-century Italy appears here for the first time in English translation. Since its original incarnation as La stanza della memoria: Modelli letterari e iconografici nell'età della stampa, published by Einaudi of Torino in 1995, Bolzoni's study has been praised by critics and ranked with the classic texts in its field -- those by Paolo Rossi, Frances Yates and Mary Carruthers. The book takes as its starting point a striking paradox: that the antique tradition of the art of memory -- created by an oral culture -- reached its moment of greatest diffusion during an age that saw the birth of the printed book. Bolzoni's examination of this phenomenon, in which archaic and modern elements came together in a precarious equilibrium, reveals the profound ties that existed at the time between memory and creativity, and between words and images. Drawing on the multiplicity of practices that relied on techniques of memory, Bolzoni presents diagrams, cipher alphabets, rebuses and emblemlike pictures characteristic of the late-Medieval and early-modern periods, indicating their use for literary games and preaching. In doing so, she skilfully reconstructs a particular mentality, a way of apprehending words and images that was of central importance for a long period of time but that has since been forgotten.--
Printing --- Italian literature --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Graphic arts --- Ottovolante (Group of writers) --- History --- History and criticism. --- Manuzio, Paolo, --- Manutius, Paulus, --- Manucius, Paulus, --- Manuccius, Paullus, --- Mannuccius, Paullus, --- Manuce, Paul, --- Accademia Veneziana. --- Accademia Veneziana --- Academia Veneta --- Academia Venetiana --- Academia della Fama --- In Academia Veneta --- Printer old books --- Early printed books --- 094:159.9 --- 159.953 --- 159.953 Geheugen. Herinnering --- Geheugen. Herinnering --- 094:159.9 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Psychologie: zie ook: Psychiatrie: n-{616.89-008} en n-{615.851} --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Psychologie: zie ook: Psychiatrie: n-{616.89-008} en n-{615.851} --- History and criticism --- Venice (Italy) --- Bneci (Italy) --- Mleci (Italy) --- Mleti (Italy) --- Venecia (Italy) --- Venezia (Italy) --- Venedig (Italy) --- Venetik (Italy) --- Venetsii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Velence (Italy) --- Benetia (Italy) --- Venetia (Italy) --- Wenecja (Italy) --- Venise (Italy) --- Fenice (Italy) --- Benetke (Italy) --- Vinegia (Italy) --- Burano (Italy) --- Murano (Italy) --- Venice (Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom) --- Imprints. --- Intellectual life --- Manutius, Paul, --- Manutius, P., --- Mannvccivs, Pavllvs, --- Mannuccio, Paolo, --- Paulus, Manutius, --- Manucius, Paullus, --- Manutius, Paullus, --- Manuccio, Paolo, --- Manucci, Paolo, --- Mannucius, Paulus, --- Manutio, Paolo, --- Venet︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Book history --- Graphics industry --- anno 1500-1599 --- Venice
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Published in 1764, On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) courted both success and controversy in Europe and North America. Enlightenment luminaries and enlightened monarchs alike lauded the text and looked to it for ideas that might help guide the various reform projects of the day. The equality of every citizen before the law, the right to a fair trial, the abolition of the death penalty, the elimination of the use of torture in criminal interrogations-these are but a few of the vital arguments articulated by Beccaria.This volume offers a new English translation of On Crimes and Punishment alongside writings by a number of Beccaria's contemporaries. Of particular interest is Voltaire's commentary on the text, which is included in its entirety. The supplementary materials testify not only to the power and significance of Beccaria's ideas, but to the controversial reception of his book. At the same time that philosophes proclaimed that it contained principles of enduring importance to any society grappling with matters of political and criminal justice, allies of the ancien régime roundly denounced it, fearing that the book's attack on feudal privileges and its call to separate law from religion (and thus crime from sin) would undermine their longstanding privileges and powers.Long appreciated as a foundational text in criminology, Beccaria's arguments have become central in debates over capital punishment. This new edition presents Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments as an important and influential work of Enlightenment political theory.
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Cooking, Italian --- Cuisine italienne --- Early works to 1800. --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Cooking --- 094:641.5 --- 641 <09> --- 641 <09> Geschiedenis van de voeding --- Geschiedenis van de voeding --- 094:641.5 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Preparation of foodstuffs and meals. Cookery --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Preparation of foodstuffs and meals. Cookery --- Cookery --- Cuisine --- Food preparation --- Home economics --- Cookbooks --- Dinners and dining --- Food --- Gastronomy --- Table --- Food science
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