What were books like in the ancient world? How were the libraries organised? The delightful booklet answers Stefano Manferlotti «Books, booksellers and libraries of the ancient world» published by Langella for the necklace ‘O beetle (pp. 48, 6 euros) and out on June 26th.
In this writing, essential but very well documented, the author takes us into the evocative world of the ancient book. Often giving the floor to protagonists such as Aristophanes, Plutarch, Catullus, Martialtakes us into Greek and Roman bookstores and libraries, both public and private. Portraits of passionate collectors also emerge, who even then were willing to go to great lengths to possess the most beautiful and rarest specimens.
Stefano Manferlotti he is professor emeritus of English literature at the University of Naples Federico II. He has published numerous volumes and essays that cover large sectors of English literature, from Renaissance theater to nineteenth-century novels to modernist and postmodern fiction. Among the most important monographs, we highlight Anti-utopia. Huxley Orwell Burgess (Palermo, Sellerio, 1984), Novel and ethnicity in Great Britain (Naples, Liguori, 1995), James Joyce (Catanzaro, Rubbettino, 1997), Hamlet in parody (Rome, Bulzoni, 2005), Shakespeare (Rome, Salerno Editrice, 2010), Elizabethan red. Essays on Shakespeare (Naples, Liguori, 2017). He has translated works by Dickens, Chesterton, Melville, London, Orwell into Italian. His annotated translation of Orwell’s Animal Farm is imminently published by Marsilio of Venice
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