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

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 1527-1565, and it is followed by an equal one pertaining the years 1566-1603. The repertoire documents the systematic use that authors and printers made of the privileges system to ensure exclusivity in the economic exploitation of a work and thus protect their work and investments. The archival and bibliographic sources collected in this volume testify to the entrepreneurial strategies implemented by authors and printers to innovate and diversify publishing production in order 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 constant historical and political changes.

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

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Author Biography

Erika Squassina

is a researcher at the Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods of the State University of Milan, where she works within the Early Modern Book Trade project. In particular, since 2017 she has been responsible of the sub-project on the book privileges granted in Venice up to 1603 through the study of the archival records in the Venice State Archive.

Since 2013, she has worked as teaching assistant in the courses of Book History and Library Science at the same University of Udine. In 2015 she obtained her doctorate in Book History at the University of Udine with a thesis about the privilege system in Venice over the period between 1469–1545. The following year (2016) she was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Cagliari where she worked at the project of a complete census of sixteenth-century editions in Sardinian libraries. In 2019, with Andrea Ottone, she edited the volume entitled Privilegi librari nell’Italia del Rinascimento.

Published
June 21, 2022

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979-12-80325-40-2

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979-12-80325-62-4

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979-12-80325-57-0