Main entry:

King, Ross, 1962- author.

Title & Author:

The bookseller of Florence : the story of the manuscripts that illuminated the Renaissance / Ross King.

Publication:

[Toronto, Ontario] : Bond Street Books, [2021]
©2021

Description:

viii, 481 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color), facsimiles (some color), map ; 25 cm

Notes:
Place of publication from publisher's website.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-410) and index.
The street of booksellers -- The pure radiance of the past -- Wondrous treasures -- Athens on the Arno -- Wise men from the East -- Vespasiano mangiadore -- Antique letters -- Friends in high places -- The fall of Greece -- The miraculous man -- The decades of the king -- A destiny of dignity and excellence -- The spirit of Palto -- Uomini da bene e letterati -- Hermes the thrice-greatest -- A divine way of writing -- The finest library since antiquity -- The second coming -- Florentinis ingeniis nil ardui est -- For the advantage of all scholars -- Apud sanctum Iacobum de Ripoli -- A reversalof fortune -- How the might are fallen -- The land of oblivion -- Lament for Otranto -- Pardon and deliver us -- The grand conjunction -- Epilogue: Chasing away the darkness.
Issued also in electronic format.

Summary:

"Award-winning and bestselling author Ross King is back with another rich, gripping history--a story of rivalry, new technology and the finest illuminated manuscripts known to history, all set against a Renaissance Florence backdrop. Against the endlessly rich and fascinating backdrop of Renaissance Florence, The Bookseller of Florence brings to light an extraordinary story about the city and its culture--that of Vespasiano da Bisticci, the "king of the world's booksellers," Florence's most indispensable and prolific merchant of knowledge. His bookshop in the heart of Florence was a gathering place for the city's most prominent poets and philosophers, and it was there that Vespasiano and his team of scribes created beautiful illuminated manuscripts for their clients, a cast of powerful popes and wealthy European princes. But in 1476, as Vespasiano began working on one of his most famed and gorgeous works, the Urbino Bible, the printing press came to Florence and threatened his life's work. The Bookseller of Florence tells the story of the people at the forefront of the world's greatest cultural and technological revolution. It explores the clash between old and new and the way it can produce an explosion of fresh ideas, and is the definitive tome on one of the world's most transformative moments in time."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780385692977 (hardcover)
0385692978 (hardcover)

Subject:

Vespasiano, da Bisticci, 1421-1498.
Vespasiano da Bisticci, Fiorentino, 1421-1498.
Booksellers and bookselling Italy Florence Biography.
Booksellers and bookselling Italy Florence History To 1500.
Publishers and publishing Italy Florence History To 1500.
Printing History Origin and antecedents.
Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy Florence.
Printing Italy History 15th century.
Publishers and publishing Italy History 15th century.
Libraires Italie Florence Biographies.
Librairie Italie Florence Histoire Jusqu'à 1500.
Édition Italie Florence Histoire Jusqu'à 1500.
Imprimerie Histoire Origines et antécédents.
Manuscrits de la Renaissance Italie Florence.
Books and reading
Booksellers and bookselling
Intellectual life
Manuscript design
Printing presses
Florence (Italy) Intellectual life To 1500.
Florence (Italy) History 1421-1737.
Florence (Italie) Vie intellectuelle Jusqu'à 1500.
Florence (Italie) Histoire 1421-1737.
Italy Florence

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309789
Call No.: BIB 254948
Status: Available