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Il canzoniere a stampa (1470-1530): tradizione e fortuna di un genere fra storia del libro e letteratura. By NADIA CANNATA. (Dipartimento di Studi Romanzi, Universita a di Roma 'La Sapienza', Filologia materiale, 1) Rome: Bagatto Libri. 2000. 475 pp. Lire 60,000. ISBN 88-7806-121-2.
Nadia Cannata's study sets out to investigate the possible links between, on the one hand, the very large printed output (over five hundred editions) of books of verse in Italy between 1470 and 1530 and, on the other hand, the birth, towards the end of this period, of a new Italian literature and the definition of a system of literary genres in which lyric poetry was of foremost significance. These two phenomena were interrelated, she suggests, because the proliferation of verse in print tended to make literature into a marketable commodity, and in this context a reciprocal influence was created between text and form: 'La...
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