A Marvelous Solitude

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A Marvelous Solitude is written by Lina Bolzoni and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674294904 (ISBN 10) and 9780674294905 (ISBN 13).

The sense of reading as an intimate act of self-discovery—and of communion between authors and book lovers—has a long history. Lina Bolzoni returns to Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Montaigne, and Tasso, exploring how Renaissance humanists began to represent reading as a private encounter and a dialogue across barriers of time and space.