Ephemeral City
Subtitle: Cheap Print and Urban Culture in Renaissance Venice
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780719087035
Subjects: Printing; Venice (italy), history
Description: 'Ephemeral City' explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance. It offers the first view of one of the city's most productive and creative industries from the bottom up and a new and unexpected vision of Renaissance culture, characterised by the fluid mobility and dynamic intermingling of texts, ideas, goods and people.