Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Printing the Event. An Introduction 1
4. News in Early Italian Printing. Strategies of Collaboration and Commercialization 9
5. Before the Event. Printed Invitations in the Incunabula Period 27
6. The Voice of the Anchor. News and Events in Aldus Manutius’s Prefaces 51
7. Italian War Chronicles in Hernando Colón’s Universal Library. The Case of Perosino della Rotonda 65
8. The Material Culture of Mobility. A Pilgrim’s Books between Italy, the Holy Land, and Switzerland 89
9. Ferdinand of Aragon and the Importance of Print 105
10. Boosting an Anti-Jewish Narrative with Humanist Means. Nikolaus Marschalk and Sternberg 1492 117
11. Publications About the Poor Conrad Uprising (1514) in Context. Broadsides, Letters, and Print Runs in Early Modern Germany 143
12. The French Conquest of Milan in Venetian and Milanese Prints 159
13. The 1472 Comet and the Reactions of its Observers. Words, Manuscripts, Print 173
14. Information, Propaganda, and Entertainment. Francesco Allegri in Renaissance Venice 189
15. Prato, 6 July 1484. The Miracle of Santa Maria delle Carceri as a Media Event 207
16. Contributors