The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance by Ross King

The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance

Ross King

496 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective slow-paced

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In the mid-1400s, Vespasiano da Bisticci's bookshop in Florence was said to contain all the wisdom of the world. Vespasiano and his team of scribes and illuminators produced exquisite manuscripts for popes and princes across Europe, rediscovering ...

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