The invention of the author : the Privilegio di Stampa in Renaissance Venice / edited by Sabrina Minuzzi.

Venezia : Marsilio, 2017.

111 pages : black and white illustrations, facsimiles ; 19 cm.

First edition.

Authors, or the Inventors of Something New / Sabrina Minuzzi -- Notes on the texts -- A mathematician and the lost astrological instrument -- Medicinal secrets, wine amphoras, and printed texts -- Musicians -- Physicians -- Master calligraphers -- Land surveyors and loan office clerks -- Agronomists -- Architects and engineers -- Exercises in authorship -- An authorship deal.

Includes bibliographical references.