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A Marvelous Solitude motivation & self-esteem It wasn’t the wedding nightA preeminent Renaissance scholar illuminates early modern encounters with books, in which literature became a portal to self awareness and miraculous communion between author and reader. The experience of reading is often presented as personal and transformative a journey of self discovery and, perhaps, renewal. In A Marvelous Solitude, Lina Bolzoni examines the early modern roots of this attitude toward the readerly act. Between the fourteenth and