Gabriella Romani is associate professor of Italian at Seton Hall UniversityJennifer Burns is associate professor of Italian at University of Warwick

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Jennifer Burns and Gabriella Romani.Readership and Consumerism1.Giacomo Mannironi, The Economics of Reading: Cultural Consumption of Novels and letteratura amena in Eighteenth-Century Venice.2.Roberto Risso, “The Virtue of Wanting.” Galatei and Readers in Nineteenth-Century Italy: Training the Citizen and Educating the Public between Bourgeois Values and the Risorgimento.3.Gabriella Romani, National Readership and Cultural Consumerism in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy: Edmondo De Amicis and the Sentimental Appeal of his Fiction.4.Giulia Brian, A “Question of Rule of Thumb!” Antonio Fogazzaro between Publishers and Readers.Authorship, Readership and the Press5.Martina Piperno, Constructing the Myth of Vico between Press and Literature (1802-1846).6.Fabio Camilletti, Towards an Archaeology of Italian Modernity. Re-thinking the Classicist/Romantic Quarrel.7.Federico Casari, Defining Young Audiences in Post-Unification Italy: Participation and Interaction in the

Gabriella Romani is associate professor of Italian at Seton Hall UniversityJennifer Burns is associate professor of Italian at University of Warwick

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Jennifer Burns and Gabriella Romani.Readership and Consumerism1.Giacomo Mannironi, The Economics of Reading: Cultural Consumption of Novels and letteratura amena in Eighteenth-Century Venice.2.Roberto Risso, “The Virtue of Wanting.” Galatei and Readers in Nineteenth-Century Italy: Training the Citizen and Educating the Public between Bourgeois Values and the Risorgimento.3.Gabriella Romani, National Readership and Cultural Consumerism in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy: Edmondo De Amicis and the Sentimental Appeal of his Fiction.4.Giulia Brian, A “Question of Rule of Thumb!” Antonio Fogazzaro between Publishers and Readers.Authorship, Readership and the Press5.Martina Piperno, Constructing the Myth of Vico between Press and Literature (1802-1846).6.Fabio Camilletti, Towards an Archaeology of Italian Modernity. Re-thinking the Classicist/Romantic Quarrel.7.Federico Casari, Defining Young Audiences in Post-Unification Italy: Participation and Interaction in the

Gabriella Romani is associate professor of Italian at Seton Hall UniversityJennifer Burns is associate professor of Italian at University of Warwick

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Jennifer Burns and Gabriella Romani.Readership and Consumerism1.Giacomo Mannironi, The Economics of Reading: Cultural Consumption of Novels and letteratura amena in Eighteenth-Century Venice.2.Roberto Risso, “The Virtue of Wanting.” Galatei and Readers in Nineteenth-Century Italy: Training the Citizen and Educating the Public between Bourgeois Values and the Risorgimento.3.Gabriella Romani, National Readership and Cultural Consumerism in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy: Edmondo De Amicis and the Sentimental Appeal of his Fiction.4.Giulia Brian, A “Question of Rule of Thumb!” Antonio Fogazzaro between Publishers and Readers.Authorship, Readership and the Press5.Martina Piperno, Constructing the Myth of Vico between Press and Literature (1802-1846).6.Fabio Camilletti, Towards an Archaeology of Italian Modernity. Re-thinking the Classicist/Romantic Quarrel.7.Federico Casari, Defining Young Audiences in Post-Unification Italy: Participation and Interaction in the