Voices and texts in early modern Italian society / edited by Stefano Dall'Aglio, Brian Richardson, and Massimo Rospocher

Includes bibliographical references and index

The early modern Italian shout / Thomas V. Cohen -- Voicing popular politics: the town crier of Murano in the sixteenth century / Claire Judde de Larivière -- Singing songs of execution in early modern Italy / Una McIlvenna -- Moving words: everyday oralities and social dynamics in Roman trials circa 1600 / Elizabeth S. Cohen -- The lost performance: Giannozzo Manetti and spoken oratory in Venice in 1448 / Brian Jeffrey Maxson -- Orality and writing in diplomatic interactions in fifteenth-century Italy / Isabella Lazzarini -- Singing poetry in compagnia in sixteenth-century Italy / Philippe Canguilhem -- Sixteenth-century Italian Petrarchists and musical settings of their verse / Brian Richardson -- Serafino Aquilano and the mask of Poeta: a denuciation in the eclogue of Tyrinto e Menandro (1490) / Francesca Bortoletti -- "Civic performance" in Renaissance Florence / Paola Ventrone -- Reading modern authors: Aretino as host and Speroni's Dialogo dell'amore / Paolo Procaccioli -- Dantean devotions: Gabriele Barletta's "oral" Commedia in context / Nicolò Maldina -- Vernacular sermons on the psalms printed in sixteenth-century Italy: an interface between oral and written cultures / Élise Boillet -- The battle for the piazza: creative antagonism between itinerant preachers and street singers in late medieval and early modern Italy / Massimo Rospocher -- Orality and sacred music in early modern Italy / Robert Kendrick