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Article: I Giolito e la stampa nell'Italia del XVI secolo.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- December 22, 2006
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Angela Nuovo and Christian Coppens. I Giolito e la stampa nell'Italia del XVI secolo.
Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 402. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2005. 634 pp. + 78 b/w pls. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. CHF 220. ISBN: 2-600-01001-7.
The most obvious initial reaction to any new volume on the Giolito publishing house of Venice would be to inquire how it might differ from Salvatore Bongi's seminal Annali di Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari. The authors of just such a text--Angela Nuovo and Christian Coppens--respond to this inquiry in their introduction, pointing out that although they consider Bongi's text fundamentally important and still useful, ...