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Piranesi's Lost Words

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Examines the writings of eighteenth-century Italian engraver and artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Reading Piranesi in the Twenty-First Century

2. Reading Piranesi in the Eighteenth Century

3. How Piranesi Made a Book Out of Fragments of Ancient Texts and Buildings

4. How Piranesi Made a Book Out of Fragments of Modern Texts and Images

5. How Piranesi Made a Book That Questions It All

6. How Piranesi’s Words Got Lost

7. How Piranesi’s Words Got Found

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“In this original and witty interpretation, Minor corrects our too-narrow view of one of the major cultural figures of the eighteenth century.”

—John Beldon Scott, University of Iowa

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