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The printed book, the most important invention of the Early Modern Period, brought about not only an explosion of knowledge, but also major changes in the perception of texts. This volume investigates the methods by which knowledge was presented to the early modern reader and the organisation of mat... More

Mit De vita solitaria hat Francesco Petrarca ein Werk geschaffen, das aufgrund der groBen ideengeschichtlichen Reichweite seines Themas, das "vita activa-vita contemplativa-Problems, und seiner weiten Verbreitung (mehr als 120 Handschriften) einen guten Einblick in die Geistesgeschichte des 14. und ... More

The thirteen articles in this volume deal with the Neo-Latin emblem book after the birth of the genre with Andrea Alciato's "Emblematum libellus (1531). While the interest in emblematics has grown considerably during the last decades, the seminal Neo-Latin production has received relatively little a... More

This book deals with political propoganda in classical antiquity, exploring the contexts, strategies, and parameters of a fascinating phenomenon that has often been approached with anachronistic models (such as the centrally organized 'propaganda machines' of the 20th-century totalitarian regimes) o... More

This volume provides fascinating insights in the Early Modern reception of a central intellectual figure, Francis Petrarch. It demonstrates the remarkable independence of the Early Modern user's from the author's text.... More