Jubilee (Dancing rabbits 27.2.16) - Copy - CopyRare Books & Special Collections Events – Upcoming events at Jubilee Library:

Talk One:

The Decameron is a collection of short stories famous for their humour, sexual explicitness, and anti-clericism, and one of the most influential works in the history of European literature.

This talk by Dr Rhiannon Daniels, who is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Bristol, will explore the ways in which publishing this text was marketed and read in sixteenth-century Italy within the newly established culture of print. Jubilee Library holds a number
of Renaissance editions of the Decameron which will be available
to view.

Dr Rhiannon Daniels is the author of Boccaccio and the Book:
Production and Reading in Italy 1340-1520 (2009) and co-editor
of The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio (2015)
Saturday, 5th March 2016
11.30-12.30
£3

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Talk Two:

An Illustrated History of a Renaissance Bestseller Introduction to the Rare Books
& Special Collections:

Talk, Tour & Display of some of the ‘Treasures’ held in the Library Collections – 45,000 rare and unique works given to the Library by past residents of Brighton
Saturday, 27th February 2016
11.30-12.30
£3

Jubilee (Decameron 5.3.16)2 - Copy - Copy

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