Cui dono lepidum novum libellum? : dedicating Latin works and motets in the sixteenth century /

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Imprint:Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (326 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Supplementa humanistica Lovaniensia, 0775-1117 ; 23
Supplementa humanistica Lovaniensia ; 23.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11226395
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Other authors / contributors:Bossuyt, Ignace.
Academia Belgica (Rome, Italy)
ISBN:9789461660541
9461660545
9789058676696
9058676692
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:During the sixteenth century, the traditional act of dedicating a text took on a new meaning due to the wider dissemination of the printed book. As the dedication and other paratexts thus became an almost indispensable part of the publication, they merit careful examination by those who study the presentation and impact of any printed work in its context. Paratexts bridge the gap between the outside World of the reading public and the enclosed world of the book, and often present biographical information concerning the persons involved in the making of the book. In the present volume, general.
Other form:Print version: Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?. Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2008