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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