Lytton Strachey: A Biography.

London, Chatto & Windus 1988, cm.17x24, pp.VIII,486, 32 tavole bn.ft. legatura editoriale cartonata, sopracoperta figurata.

Prima ristampa. Firenze, Vallecchi Ed. 1935, cm.13x19,5, pp.304, legatura editoriale cartonata,

Prologo de Guillermo Meneses. Caracas, Macanao Ediciones 1979, cm.23,5x28, pp.190 ill.a colori. legatura editoriale in tutt tela grezza, sopracoperta figurata a colori. Testo in spagnolo.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1994, cm.15,5x23,5, pp.290, legatura editoriale in tela, sopracoperta figurata. Testo Inglese. The emergence of print in late fifteenth-century Italy gave a crucial new importance to the editors of texts, who determined the form in which texts from the Middle Ages would be read, and who could strongly influence the interpretation and status of texts by adding introductory material or commentary. Brian Richardson here examines the Renaissance circulation and reception of works by earlier writers including Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio and Ariosto, as well as popular contemporary works of entertainment. In so doing he sheds light on the impact of the new printing and editing methods on Renaissance culture, including the standardisation of vernacular Italian and its spread to new readers and writers, the establishment of new standards in textual criticism, and the increasing rivalry between the two cities on which this study is chiefly focused, Venice and Florence.

An inaugural lecture given in the University of Cambridge, 15 may 2000. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2000, cm.12x18, pp.73, fascicolo spillato, The text of this inaugural lecture, delivered in Cambridge on 15 May 2000, focuses on contemporary memory and the writing of history in the eighth and ninth centuries, taking the events of 817 and the contemporary accounts as a case study. It discusses how Frankish writers constructed their past in the early Middle Ages, and considers how and why this period should be part of the construction of our own past in the twenty-first century, both in Britain and in continental Europe. The lecture argues that a sense of the past is essential for the expression of a much more general cultural affiliation and sense of identity.