附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and indexes.
1. Introduction -- 2. Morality, Schooling, and the Printed Book in Renaissance Venice -- Accommodation: The Press and the Schools as Purveyors of Values -- Resistance and Containment: The Humanist as Pornographer -- 3. Virgil, Christianity, and the Myth of Venice -- Accommodation: Virgil as poeta theologus -- Resistance and Containment: Piety, Censorship, and the Politics of Printing -- 4. Class, Gender, and the Virgilian Myth -- Accommodation: Books and Social Unification -- Resistance and Containment: Challenges of Class and Gender -- 5. Afterword -- App. 1. Chronology of Latin Editions -- App. 2. Chronology of Italian Editions -- App. 3. The Indices to Moralized Virgilian Passages in Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Aldine 628.
摘要: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. -- Provided by publisher.
