Bookseller from Florence

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Bookseller from Florence

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Renaissance Florence. These words bring to mind images of the beautiful creations of skilled artists and architects. But no less significant were the accomplishments of creators in another area: Florentine manuscript hunters, scribes, scientists and booksellers, who brushed the dust of centuries from ancient knowledge, discovering and spreading which they created a new enlightened world.
It is in this area that Vespasiano da Bisticci, the "King of the Booksellers", has achieved tremendous success, to whom the new exciting book by Ross King, bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and the Last Supper, Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel, and many others, is dedicated. Enlightened monarchs and Roman pontiffs sought to decorate their libraries with manuscripts created under the leadership of Vespasiano ... But the collapse of the grand enterprise of the “king of booksellers” was a foregone conclusion: printing made books accessible 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 fateful changes are presented by Ross King through the prism of the biography of an extraordinary person, unfairly forgotten by history, Vespasiano da Bisticci - a true titan of the Renaissance.

Barcode: 9785389207912 SKU: 70157464 Category:
Publication language: Russian

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