Shadow Castle

Pon, Lisa and Craig Kallendorf (editors): BOOKS OF VENICE (IL LIBRO VENEZIANO).|THE, New Castle, Delaware, and Venice, Italy Oak Knoll Press, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, and La Musa Talia 2009
The Books of Venice (Il libro veneziano) contains a series of essays (in English and Italian) exploring Venetian book history from the Quattrocento through current production, books printed "in the shadow of Aldus Manutius." Venice's books, like her art and architecture, have long been considered one of her greatest glories. Some of the earliest printers in Italy were Venetian, and Venice remained one of the world's premier book producers through the sixteenth century. Great printers like the Remondini and Ongania continued to work there in later centuries, and as this volume shows, Venice continues to support an active printing tradition, both commercially and privately. The volume takes its title from the name of an international conference that was held in Venice on this subject in March 2007. Most of the papers from this conference are included here, in suitably expanded form, providing a survey of the high points of Venetian printing from the fifteenth century through the twenty-first. Case studies focus on outstanding individuals like Aldus Manutius, Erhard Ratdolt, Peter Ugelheimer, Antonio Moretto, Francesco Sansovino, Claudio Merulo, and Apostolo Zeno. Other essays discuss the role of anonymous buyers, readers, and performers, and analyses of archival documents and marks in the books themselves are complemented by studies of how Venetian books arrived in collections throughout Europe. An essay on Venetian libraries by Marino Zorzi serves as an introduction to the volume, and a consideration of the shadowy lacunae in Venetian publishing by Neil Harris concludes the main section. In the fall of 2006, Venice was host to the American master printer Peter Koch, who set to work on a deluxe edition of Joseph Brodsky's poetic ruminations on Venice, "Watermark." At the conclusion of the conference, Koch's book was formally presented at Venice's Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, where Brodsky's book had first been presented eighteen years before. The Books of Venice contains an essay on "Watermark" by Koch from this presentation, along with other essays that set Koch's book into the tradition of fine press printing in Italy. Lisa Pon is Assistant Professor of Art History at Southern Methodist University and exhibition reviews editor of SHARP News. She has published essays in Word & Image, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Print Quarterly, and Art History, and is author of Raphael, Dürer and Marcantonio Raimondi: Copying and the Italian Renaissance Print (Yale University Press, 2004). Her next book concerns an early-fifteenth-century woodcut that becomes a miraculous icon in the Northern Italian city of Forli. Craig Kallendorf is Professor of English and Classics and Cornerstone Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M University. He is the author of several books in book history, including two with a specifically Venetian focus: A Bibliography of Venetian Editions of Virgil, 1470-1599 (Olschki, 1991) and Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance (Oxford, 1999). His catalogue of the Junius Spencer Morgan Virgil collection at Princeton University will be published later this year by Oak Knoll Press Co-published with Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana and La Musa Talia; available in Italy from La Musa Talia (www.lamusatalia.it).

6.75 x 9.5 inches, paperback. 632 pages.

[KW: 9781584562573 PRINTING HISTORY VENICE ITALY BOOK HISTORY BOOK COLLECTING BOOK SELLING LIBRARY HISTORY MANTIUS, ALDUS REMONDINI RATDOLT, ERHARD KOCH, PETER NEW OAK KNOLL PRESS]

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Tad,Williams: Shadowplay, Little, Brown Book Group, März 2008 ISBN: 1841496669
Darkness has fallen on the lands of the sun as an army of misshapen fey spill out from beyond the Shadowline. At their head is Yasammez, dark creature of nightmare. A furtive bargain was struck at the gates of Southmarch and the castle was spared, but centuries of enmity will not be so easily appeased. Meanwhile Barrick, heir to Southmarch and cursed with madness, has crossed the Shadowline into the realm of his people's ancient enemy. There are stranger things than death here stranger and older. Much further south, shadow is also falling over the reign of the Autarch, god-king, and supreme ruler. Quinnitan, junior wife, must flee the royal household or die, her greatest secret as yet hidden even from herself. Ancient blood flows through her veins and she will become a unique weapon in the fight against her greatest terror. And beyond the ken of all but a chosen few, the gods are awakening and the world is changing.

NEUBUCH! 779 Seiten 179 mm x 111 mm x 46 mm Einband:Kartoniert/Broschiert

[KW: Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Fantasy]

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Howe, Maude: SUN AND SHADOW IN SPAIN, Boston Little Brown & Company 1911

Hardcover Very Good+ Small chip in spine. Binding not tight; Dark blue boards with gilt lettering and picture of a castle. Top edge gilt. Numerous photos of artworks and landmarks; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 411 pages

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Chris Kuzneski: Sign of the Cross, PENGUIN GROUP, ISBN: 0141030844
A Vatican priest is found murdered - nailed to a cross in the shadow of Hamlet's castle. He is the first victim in a killing spree that spans the world. Meanwhile in the Roman Catacombs of Orvieto, an archaeologist uncovers a scroll dating back two thousand years. The scroll holds the key to a secret that will rock the foundations of the Church.

NEW 176X42X112

[KW: Englisch; Krimis/Thriller]

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