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 March 31, 2011
| Time: | 7-8 p.m. |
| Description: | Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam university professor of history at Princeton University, presents the 2011 Pforzheimer lecture, "Humanists with Dirty Fingers: Correctors in the Renaissance Printing House." Grafton explores the largely forgotten world of Renaissance correctors, the print professionals who not only corrected proofs, as their title suggests, but readied copy for the press, drew up prefaces and tables of contents, compiled indexes and wrote blurbs. Surviving sources, which range from the ledgers that record their salaries to corrected proofs that reveal their practices, make it possible to show that correctors, though underpaid and often badly treated, played several vital roles in the printing shop. |
| Location: | Harry Ransom Center |
| URL: | More about this event... |
| Contact: | Alicia M Dietrich | 512-232-3667 |
| Sponsor: | Harry Ransom Center |
| Admission: | Free, but limited seating |
| Categories: | Everyone, Lecture/talk |
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