The Politics of Revision investigates the role of Italian editors active in major European printing centres (especially Basel, Paris, and Antwerp) during the early Counter-Reformation. The project examines practices of private censorship and textual revision carried out by non-institutional actors, with the aim of reassessing censorship as a negotiated process rather than a purely institutional one, while also exploring how editors functioned as cultural brokers mediating between authors, printers, and authorities. As a further stage of analysis, the project considers the impact of these interventions at the level of both public and private reception. Building on this perspective, it turns to marginalia and reader interventions as privileged sites in which the otherwise elusive dynamics of revision, mediation, and appropriation become visible. This approach opens up new avenues of research into how texts were actively reshaped in use, particularly with regard to the reception and transformation of historiographical and political knowledge across early modern Europe.

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