The first two lectures, Where Angels fear to read and Reading Backwards from the Printed Book are on the printing of the first edition of Castiglione's Il libro del coregiano by Andrea D'Asola, at the Aldine Press, Venice 1528. The lectures can be understood individually, but they will make better sense in pairs. Professor Randall McLeod was educated at Harvard and at the University of Toronto, where he is currently a member of the English faculty. A specialist in Renaissance and 17th-century literature, his research interests have been in textual criticism and the editorial tradition. He has written and lectured widely on authors from Shakespeare and Herbert to Keats and Shaw.
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