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The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe: Panizzi Lectures
By Karen | 16 November 2009
This year’s series of Panizzi lectures will explore the ways in which texts were prepared for publication in Renaissance Europe. Professor Anthony Grafton will recreate the practices of professional correctors—poor devils of literature whose work extended far beyond the specific task of proof correction—and the printers and authors who worked with them. Both great houses such as that of Christopher Plantin and much smaller ones will come in for examination, but the emphasis will be on the former.
There are three lectures in the series:
Tue 8 Dec 2009, 18.15 – 19.30The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe: Practice Makes Imperfect – Professor Grafton launches this year’s series with a description of the world and work of the corrector: it will trace the origins of some of their practices to the world of manuscript book production, others to the new needs of print.
Wed 9 Dec 2009, 18.15 – 19.30 The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe: The View from Inside The Shop – Continuing this year’s Panizzi lectures, this event will explore some of the rich and revealing documents that enable us to watch correctors at work. We will pay special attention to surviving manuscripts and printed books that correctors used, and to what the traces they left behind can tell us about publication and authorship in Renaissance Europe.
Mon 14 Dec 2009, 18.15 – 19.30The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe: The View from the Author’s Study – Join us for the final lecture in this year’s Panizzi series. From the Renaissance to the present, authors have fumed and cursed as they saw what happened to their work in the printing house, and have done their best to take an active part in the process of editing, design and production. We will examine some of the varieties of correction that Renaissance authors and scholars encountered, and some of their manifold responses.
The lectures are free. Tickets must be booked in advance from the British Library Box Office.
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