This article examine handwriting textbooks from 18th-century Europe. In 1774 the court of Vienna charged Johann Ignaz Felbiger with reforming the schools and his book on penmanship (1775) became the standard reference for how to write. In 1776 the Court sought a book on penmanship to be used specifically in Serbian and Vlach schools; the textbook of Zaharija Orfelin (1778) came into being to fill this need. The textbooks of both Felbiger and Orphelin have their basis in Felbiger’s first book on penmanship (1768). We also explore the possibility that other European handwriting manuals served as models for earlier works by Orfelin (1759, 1776).
University of Chieti-Pescara G. D'Annunzio, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-3107-4283
Chapter Title
Da Vienna con amore: il caleidoscopio delle calligrafie settecentesche e il caso Orfelin
Authors
Persida Lazarević Di Giacomo
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-910-2.31
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Publication Year
2019
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Book Title
Il mondo slavo e l’Europa
Book Subtitle
Contributi presentati al VI Congresso Italiano di Slavistica (Torino, 28-30 settembre 2016)
Editors
Maria Cristina Bragone, Maria Bidovec
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Number of Pages
368
Publication Year
2019
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© 2019 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-910-2
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978-88-6453-909-6
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978-88-6453-910-2
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978-88-6453-911-9
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978-88-9273-039-7
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
Series ISSN
2612-7687
Series E-ISSN
2612-7679