{"title":"Lina Bolzoni","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLina Bolzoni\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the intricate relationship between literature and the visual arts, offering readers a rich and thoughtful engagement with cultural history. Her works delve into themes of solitude and creativity, inviting reflection on the silent dialogues between text and image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect elegant prose and profound insights that illuminate the intersections of art, literature, and history. Bolzoni's writing is both poetic and analytical, making her books essential for those interested in \u003cem\u003earts and culture\u003c\/em\u003e from a deeply nuanced perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-marvelous-solitude-by-lina-bolzoni-9780674660236","title":"A Marvelous Solitude","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA preeminent Renaissance scholar illuminates early modern encounters with books, in which literature became a portal to self-awareness and miraculous communion between author and reader.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe experience of reading is often presented as personal and transformative—a journey of self-discovery and, perhaps, renewal. In \u003cem\u003eA Marvelous Solitude\u003c\/em\u003e, Lina Bolzoni examines the early modern roots of this attitude toward the readerly act. Between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, European men of letters increasingly came to see books as something more than compendia of knowledge: they could also help readers understand the human condition. As Bolzoni shows, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Montaigne, and Tasso all presented reading as a private encounter and a dialogue with the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor many Renaissance intellectuals, reading was instrumental to the construction of the self, which was enriched by contact with other learned men. These readers imagined the book as a mirror image of its author, with whom they held a secret affinity. In their letters to one another, humanists described the book as a body, reflecting the notion that reading literature placed its author in the room with oneself. Reading the work of a deceased author became akin to a necromantic rite, as the writers of bygone times were resurrected and placed in contemporary conversation. The vogue for hanging portraits of authors in libraries and studios ensured that the image of the creator was never far from his words, cementing bonds of friendship across barriers of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese myths—charming, fragile, and powerful—invested the readerly encounter with miraculous properties that lingered in the hearts of the Romantics. And something of those wonders persists today, in the intimate feeling that reading yet provokes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47429751996652,"sku":"9780674660236","price":80.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674660236.jpg?v=1774559952"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/lina-bolzoni.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}