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Aldus & His Dream Book

Autor Helen Barolini
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 dec 2009
"Aldus and His Dream Book" is a tribute to the life and work of the pioneering scholar-publisher, Aldus Manutius (1449/50-1515). Helen Barolini's text discusses Aldus, his education, his publishing vision, his typographic innovations, and his famous Venetian press. At the same time, this book reproduces all the illustrations, and many of the full pages, from the Aldine press edition of Francesco Colonna's "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili," which many consider the most beautiful book printed in the Renaissance. It also includes a bibliography of works on Aldus and the "Hypnerotomachia." This edition is certain to appeal to the historian, bibliophile, art historian, designer, and student of the many psychologically rich and emblematic illustrations that have delighted and intrigued generations of readers and scholars. The third printing completely resets the text, using digital typefaces that approximate the original even more closely, offers newly reproduced images of the art pages, and includes an updated Bibliography.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780934977227
ISBN-10: 0934977224
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 1
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Italica Press, Inc.

Notă biografică

HELEN BAROLINI was the author of many books, including The Dream Book, for which she won a National Book Award, and Umbertina, and over fifty stories and essays, which have appeared in numerous publications and collections including Best American Essays 1998.Awarded a writing grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for her first novel, Umbertina, Barolini was the author of nine other books and many short stories and essays that have been cited in annual editions of Best American Essays. She received an American Book Award and other honors, was a Resident fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center on Lake Como, and a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. Several of her books appeared in translation in Italy where she lectured as an invited American author.Helen Barolini was born and raised in Syracuse, NY and attended local schools. She attended Wells College, graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse University, and received a Master's degree from Columbia University. She was an exchange student at the University of London where she studied contemporary English literature and then traveled in Europe writing "Letters from Abroad" for the Syracuse Herald Journal. Following studies in Italy, she married the Italian author and journalist Antonio Barolini.In their married life of several moves between Italy and the United States, Helen Barolini became the English translator of Antonio's writings that were published in The New Yorker, Reporter, and other American publications.She was an invited writer at Yaddo and the MacDowell colony and a writer in residence at the Mark Twain Quarry Center of Elmira College.Given the intercultural themes of her work linking her American birth and education with her ancestral Italy, Helen Barolini participated in international conferences, and her work was the subject of many student theses both here and abroad.Barolini was honored by MELUS, the American Italian Cultural Roundtable, the Sons of Italy, the Italian Welfare League and other organizations for her literary work on the Italian American experience. She died in 2023.