Privilegi librari ed edizioni privilegiate nella Repubblica di Venezia (1566-1603)

Authors

Erika Squassina
University of the Studies of Milan
ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7966-8737
Keywords: Printing privilege, Publishing innovations, Renaissance, Venice, Book trade

Synopsis

This work provides the legal framework in which the Venetian book trade operated in the years 1566-1603, and is preceded by an equal one pertaining the years 1527-1565. The repertoire documents the systematic use that authors and printers made of the privilege system to ensure exclusivity in the economic exploitation of a work and thus protect their work and investments. The archival and bibliographical sources collected in this volume testify to the entrepreneurial strategies implemented by authors and printers to innovate and diversify editorial production to create products capable of competing on foreign markets. The repertoire also traces the role of the Venetian State in promoting and protecting the local book industry in a context characterized by continuous historical and political changes.

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Privilegi librari ed edizioni privilegiate nella Repubblica di Venezia (1527-1565)

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Author Biography

Erika Squassina, University of the Studies of Milan

She collaborates with the University of Oslo on the project Before Copyright: Printing Privileges and the Politics of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe.

Since 2013 she has been a teaching assistant in the History of Books and Library Science courses at the University of Udine. In 2015 she obtained her doctorate in Book History and Bibliographic Sciences from the same University with a thesis on the Venetian privileges system in the years 1469-1545. In 2016 she was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Cagliari where she worked on the census project of sixteenth-century editions preserved in Sardinian libraries. From 2017 to 2022 she was a researcher in the Early Modern Book Trade project at the University of Udine and the State University of Milan.

In 2019, with Andrea Ottone, she edited the volume Privilegi librari nell'Italia del Rinascimento, and in 2022 she published the book Privilegi librari ed edizioni privilegiale nella Repubblica di Venezia (1527-1565).

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October 8, 2024

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