Table of Contents

1. Publishing texts; 2. Making and selling books; 3. Women as scribes; 4. Access to texts.

Promotional Information

The first comprehensive guide to women's promotion and use of textual culture, in manuscript and print, in Renaissance Italy.

About the Author

Brian Richardson is Emeritus Professor of Italian Language at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Manuscript Culture in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge, 2009), Printers, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge, 1999) and Print Culture in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge, 1994).