Bookseller from Florence
19.99 €
In stock
Bookseller from Florence
19.99 €
Renaissance Florence. These words bring to mind images of the beautiful creations of skillful artists and architects. But no less significant were the accomplishments of creators in another field: Florentine manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars and booksellers who brushed off the dust of centuries of ancient knowledge, discovering and disseminating which they created a new enlightened world.
It is in this field that Vespasiano da Bisticci, the "king of booksellers," who is the subject of an exciting new book by Ross King, bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and the Last Supper, Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel, and many others. Manuscripts created under the leadership of Vespasiano, sought to decorate their libraries enlightened monarchs and Roman pontiffs ... But the collapse of the grandiose enterprise of the "king of booksellers" was a foregone conclusion: printing made books available to many. The dramatic political and religious upheavals of the era, the history of philosophical thought and the European world of the period of grandiose and momentous changes are presented by Ross King through the prism of the biography of an extraordinary man, unjustly forgotten by history, Vespasiano da Bisticci - a true titan of the Renaissance.
It is in this field that Vespasiano da Bisticci, the "king of booksellers," who is the subject of an exciting new book by Ross King, bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and the Last Supper, Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel, and many others. Manuscripts created under the leadership of Vespasiano, sought to decorate their libraries enlightened monarchs and Roman pontiffs ... But the collapse of the grandiose enterprise of the "king of booksellers" was a foregone conclusion: printing made books available to many. The dramatic political and religious upheavals of the era, the history of philosophical thought and the European world of the period of grandiose and momentous changes are presented by Ross King through the prism of the biography of an extraordinary man, unjustly forgotten by history, Vespasiano da Bisticci - a true titan of the Renaissance.