Virgil and the Myth of Venice Books and

This book, which is the first comprehensive study of its subject, shows that the Roman poet Virgil played an unexpectedly significant role in the shaping of Renaissance Venetian culture. Drawing on reception theory and the sociology of literature, it argues that Virgil's poetry became a best-seller because it sometimes challenged, but more often confirmed, the specific moral, religious, and social values of the Venetian readers.

Craig Kallendorf is Professor of English and Classics at Texas A & M University.

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Introduction

1

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Morality, Schooling, and the Printed Book in Renaissance Venice

31

(60)

Accommodation: The Press and the Schools as Purveyors of Values

31

(50)

Resistance and Containment: The Humanist as Pornographer

81

(10)

Virgil, Christianity, and the Myth of Venice

91

(49)

Accommodation: Virgil as poeta theologus

91

(33)

Resistance and Containment: Piety, Censorship, and the Politics of Printing

124

(16)

Class, Gender, and the Virgilian Myth

140

(65)

Accommodation: Books and Social Unification

140

(38)

Resistance and Containment: Challenges of Class and Gender

178

(27)

Afterword

205

(8)

Appendix 1: Chronology of Latin Editions

213

(5)

Appendix 2: Chronology of Italian Editions

218

(4)

Appendix 3: The Indices to Moralized Virgilian Passages in Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Aldine 628

222

(3)

Select Bibliography

225

(12)

Index Locorum

237

(2)

General Index

239

(8)

Index of Printers

247

(3)

Index of Annotated Copies

250

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Virgil and the Myth of Venice Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance

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