Printing the Event

The Press as Mass Medium in Italy and Germany in the First Age of Print

Stefano Cassini, Tobias Daniels, Sandra Toffolo

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2025
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9783112222003
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Printing the Event examines the use of print in the first decades after its invention. It analyzes how in this period print was used not only as a method to reproduce texts but also as a new medium to share news and ideas about current events. Focusing on the German-speaking territories and Italy, the volume aims to shed further light on the initial stages of a medium destined to have a wide-ranging impact on human history.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Printing the Event. An Introduction
• News in Early Italian Printing. Strategies of Collaboration and Commercialization
• Before the Event. Printed Invitations in the Incunabula Period
• The Voice of the Anchor. News and Events in Aldus Manutius’s Prefaces
• Italian War Chronicles in Hernando Colón’s Universal Library. The Case of Perosino della Rotonda
• The Material Culture of Mobility. A Pilgrim’s Books between Italy, the Holy Land, and Switzerland
• Ferdinand of Aragon and the Importance of Print
• Boosting an Anti-Jewish Narrative with Humanist Means. Nikolaus Marschalk and Sternberg 1492
• Publications About the Poor Conrad Uprising (1514) in Context. Broadsides, Letters, and Print Runs in Early Modern Germany
• The French Conquest of Milan in Venetian and Milanese Prints
• The 1472 Comet and the Reactions of its Observers. Words, Manuscripts, Print
• Information, Propaganda, and Entertainment. Francesco Allegri in Renaissance Venice
• Prato, 6 July 1484. The Miracle of Santa Maria delle Carceri as a Media Event