Humaniści z dłońmi splamionymi tuszem. Kultura poprawiania w renesansowej Europie
Humanists with Inky Fingers. The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe

Summary/Abstract: Anthony Grafton in his lecture presents a working method of Early-Modern correctors whose job entailed pre-publication reading and revising texts in publishing houses. Referring to numerous sources from the epoch, the researcher indicated that many a time the correctors’ interventions into the texts were far-reaching since they assumed responsibility for the social reception of the work and the public image of the author. At the same time, majority of correctors was much respected neither by their employers, nor by readers, nor by scholars whose treaties they revised. It resulted in low salaries and common dissatisfaction from their fortune, though the job required necessary language predispositions and erudite humanistic knowledge. Grafton also demonstrates that the origin of this profession is linked to circulation of Latin manuscripts and dates back to the late Middle Ages in Italy where the ethos of correctors as well as the basic methods of their work developed, and where arose the convictions that correctors are co-authors of published texts, and that the final shape of the work depends on their commitment.

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