International Exchange in the Early Modern Book World

Copyright

Contents

Preface

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

PART 1: The International Book Trade: Business without Borders

1 Sales Channels for Bestsellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe

2 International Publishing and Local Needs: The Breviaries and Missals Printed by Plantin for the Spanish Crown

3 Centre and Periphery? Relations between Frankfurt and Bologna in the Transnational Book Trade of the 1600s

4 Selling Books in the Italian Renaissance: The Correspondence of Giovanni Bartolomeo Gabiano (1522)

5 Plantin and the French Book Market

PART 2: Cultural Transmissions and Political Exchange

6 Books as a Means of Transcultural Exchange between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans

7 ‘Translated and Often Printed in Most Languages of Europe’: Movement and Translations of Italian Histories on the Dutch Revolt across Europe

8 The Pike and the Printing Press: Military Handbooks and the Gentrification of the Early Modern Military Revolution

PART 3: Libraries, Collections, Ownership

9 How to Build a Library across Early-Modern Europe: The Network of Claude Expilly

10 Books without Borders: The Presence of the European Printing Press in the Italian Religious Libraries at the End of the Sixteenth Century

11 Angelica’s Book: The Power of Reading in Late Renaissance Florence

PART 4: Moving Music and Translating Tongues: Literature and Music between Countries

12 Confessional Networks, Cultural Exchange and the Printed Music of Jerome Commelin (c.1550–1597)

13 Sellers and Buyers of Italian Music around 1700: The Silvani Firm and G.B. Bassani’s Music in Italy and Central Europe

14 Translating Renaissance Drama: Networks, Platforms, Apps

15 « Catullum Numquam Antea Lectum […] Lego »: A Short Analysis of Catullus’ Fortune in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

16 Intertraffic: Transnational Literatures and Languages in Late Renaissance England and Europe

Index