In preparation for the Week of the Italian Language in the World 2024, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto is pleased to support the participation of Chiara Alessia Campagnaro (Operations and Outreach Assistant at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto and recent graduate of the Warburg Institute), at this year’s Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium conference.
Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium
2024 Conference
Communities of Print: Authors, Readers, and Printers in the Early Modern World
26 – 28 September 2024
St Michael’s College
University of Toronto
70 & 81 St Mary Street | Toronto, ON
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Technologies of Printing
Session 2
Making a Good Impression: Margherita Marescotti’s Petitions in the Seventeenth-Century Book Trade
Chiara Alessia Campagnaro
Friday, September 27 | 4:00PM
The Renaissance explosion of print opened up a world of books navigated by authors, artists, printers, booksellers, and readers. Together they created communities of print that reached back to the classical past as they stretched ahead to the future and began moving around the globe. Printing triggered intellectual convergences and ruptures, made and broke fortunes, sparked technological and educational innovations, facilitated scholarly activity and exchange, and turned paper into a vital commodity. The printing press animated communities that were intensely local and expansively global, connecting their members through rivers of ink and reams of paper. It’s long been a commonplace that the Renaissance and Reformation are unthinkable without printing, but our understanding of its impact has expanded as we’ve considered mobility and migration, technology and media, gender and race, sense and space – all have expanded how we understand communities of print emerging and functioning.
Chiara Alessia Campagnaro is a recent graduate from the Warburg Institute in London where she completed an MA in Art History, Curatorship, and Renaissance Culture as a recipient of the American Friends of the Warburg scholarship. She has training in Italian translation and palaeography as well as years of experience as a researcher and writer. Campagnaro’s academic research focuses on the intersection of gender and the book trade in early modern Italy by examining the working lives of Italian women printers. Currently, she is working with the Art Museum at the University of Toronto on the collateral event, Ydessa Hendeles: Grand Hotel at the Venice Biennale.
Organized in partnership with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto, McMaster University, the University of St Michael’s College, and the University of Toronto.