technical causes of anonymity, while at the same time 
     the movement of the Renaissance created new ideas of 
     literary fame and intellectual property.

     It is not entirely self-evident today that typography should 
have been the means and occasion of individualism and self-
expression in society. That it should have been the means of 
fostering habits of private property, privacy, and many forms 
of “enclosure” is, perhaps, more evident. But most obvious is 
the fact of printed publication as the direct means of fame and 
perpetual memory. For, until the modern movie, there had been 
in the world no means of broadcasting a private image to equal 
the printed book. Manuscript culture did not foster any grand 
ideas in this department. Print did. Most of the Renaissance 
megalomania from Aretino to Tamburlaine is the immediate 
child of typography which provided the physical means of