9781472474902

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Introduction / Luca Degl'Innocenti and Brian Richardson

ORAL PERFORMANCES AND WRITTEN TEXTS. Oral and Manuscript Cultures in Early Modern Italy / Peter Burke

Paladins and Captains: Chivalric Clichés and Political Propaganda in Early Modern Italian War Poems / Luca Degl'Innocenti

Performance, Print, and the Italian Wars: Poemetti Bellici and the Case of Eustachio Celebrino's La presa di Roma / Jessica Goethals

Ahimé, ahi, o, deh: Interjections and Orality in lamenti during the Italian Wars / Florence Alazard

Orality and Print: Singing in the Street in Early Modern Venice / Iain Fenlon

Levels of Orality in the Published Scenarios of Flaminio Scala / Richard Andrews

Theories on Linguistic Variety in Renaissance Italy: Between Regional Identities and Oral Performance / Chiara Sbordoni

FUNCTIONS OF ORALITY IN THE WRITTEN WORD. Orality, Literacy, and Historiography in Neapolitan Vernacular Urban Chronicles of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries / Chiara De Caprio and Francesco Senatore

And the Voice of the People Climbed Parnassus: Lingua Napolitana from Street Dialect to Canon / Lorenza Gianfrancesco

Traces of Orality in Machiavelli's Prose / Jean-Louis Fournel

Nature versus Grammar: Annibal Caro's Apologia as a Manifesto for Orality / Stefano Jossa

ORALITY, THE LEARNED, AND LEARNING. Not by Books Alone: The Spoken Life of the Learned / Françoise Waquet

Oral, Manuscript, and Printed Circulation: The Many Lives of Benedetto Varchi's Lectures in the Accademia degli Infiammati of Padua / Roberta Giubilini

The Private and Public Sessions of the Accademia dei Ricovrati: Orality, Writing, and Print in Seventeenth-Century Padua / Warren Boutcher

Il passaggiere / The Passenger (1612): Benvenuto Italiano's Dialogues for Learning Spoken Italian / Vilma De Gasperin.

Italian literature > 16th century > History and criticism.

Italian literature > 17th century > History and criticism.

Oral tradition > Italy > History.

Oral communication > Italy.

Language and culture > Italy.