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The Bookseller of Florence (Ross King)
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#VespasianodaBisticci #Renaissancemanuscriptculture #Florentinehumanism #printingpresstransition #illuminatedmanuscripts #TheBooksellerofFlorence
Ross King’s The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance is a work of narrative history focused on the world of fifteenth-century Florence and the people who made books before print transformed the trade. Its central figure is Vespasiano da Bisticci, a celebrated bookseller and manuscript entrepreneur whose workshop supplied beautifully produced handwritten books to popes, princes, and scholars across Europe. King uses Vespasiano’s career to explain how manuscripts were collected, copied, decorated, and circulated in the Renaissance, and why classical learning mattered so deeply to humanist culture. The book also examines the arrival of the printing press in Florence and the way this new technology altered book production, intellectual exchange, and the status of scribes and illuminators. It is both a biography and a cultural history, showing how books functioned as works of art, instruments of learning, and agents of historical change.
- Amazon USA Store: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802159834?tag=9natree-20
- Amazon Worldwide Store: https://global.buys.trade/The-Bookseller-of-Florence-Ross-King.html
- Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/the-bookseller-of-florence-the-story/id1641905013?itsct=books_box_link&itscg=30200&ls=1&at=1001l3bAw&ct=9natree
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- Read more: https://english.9natree.com/read/0802159834/
#VespasianodaBisticci #Renaissancemanuscriptculture #Florentinehumanism #printingpresstransition #illuminatedmanuscripts #TheBooksellerofFlorence
Ross King’s The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance is a work of narrative history focused on the world of fifteenth-century Florence and the people who made books before print transformed the trade. Its central figure is Vespasiano da Bisticci, a celebrated bookseller and manuscript entrepreneur whose workshop supplied beautifully produced handwritten books to popes, princes, and scholars across Europe. King uses Vespasiano’s career to explain how manuscripts were collected, copied, decorated, and circulated in the Renaissance, and why classical learning mattered so deeply to humanist culture. The book also examines the arrival of the printing press in Florence and the way this new technology altered book production, intellectual exchange, and the status of scribes and illuminators. It is both a biography and a cultural history, showing how books functioned as works of art, instruments of learning, and agents of historical change.
