Virgil and the myth of Venice : books and readers in the Italian Renaissance / Craig Kallendorf.

This book, which is the first comprehensive study of its subject, shows that the Roman poet Virgil played an unexpectedly significant role in the shaping of Renaissance Venetian culture. Drawing on reception theory and the sociology of literature, it argues that Virgil's poetry became a best-se...

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Main Author: Kallendorf, Craig (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Morality, Schooling, and the Printed Book in Renaissance Venice -- Accommodation: The Press and the Schools as Purveyors of Values -- Resistance and Containment: The Humanist as Pornographer -- 3. Virgil, Christianity, and the Myth of Venice -- Accommodation: Virgil as poeta theologus -- Resistance and Containment: Piety, Censorship, and the Politics of Printing -- 4. Class, Gender, and the Virgilian Myth -- Accommodation: Books and Social Unification -- Resistance and Containment: Challenges of Class and Gender -- 5. Afterword -- App. 1. Chronology of Latin Editions -- App. 2. Chronology of Italian Editions -- App. 3. The Indices to Moralized Virgilian Passages in Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Aldine 628. 
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