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‘ More than meets the page ’: Printing Text and Images in Italy, 1570s - 1700sA one-­day interdisciplinary conference Saturday 4th March 2017 University of Warw ick KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Dr Marika Keblusek (Leiden University) and Dr Angela McShane (RCA/V&#38;A)For Italy, the ‘long seventeenth century’ was a period of considerable financial challenges. This was especially evident on the book market. Nevertheless, thanks to new techniques and formats which mutually related text and images within the same publication, innovative genre s were born that were marketed towards both ends of the audience spectrum, from the learned to the illiterate. ‘ More than meets the page : Printing Text and Images in Italy, 1570s -­‐ 1700s’ aims to investigate the ways in which the consolidation of the book a nd print trade influenced the development of such new book genres from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. The products emerging in the wake of these processes reached consumers throughout distant countries, between Italy and the rest of Eu rope . Moreover, various professionals and skilled workers earned their living thanks to the print market, from the production to the distribution of printed i tems. The new commercial items also contributed to the spread of cultural phenomena, such as the Grand Tour through its souvenir prints that were sometimes incorporated in atlases.More...Abstracts for 20 minute papers, not exceeding 300 words, accompanied by a brief academic cv (100 words), should be sent by 31 August 2016 to: meetsthepage@gmail.comOrganized by HRC Doctoral Fellows Rebecca Carnevali and Gloria Moorman. (Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warw ick ).