The bookseller of Florence: the story of the manuscripts that illuminated the Renaissance
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Atlantic Monthly Press
2021
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
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| Abstract: | "The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings-the dazzling handiwork of the city's skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and diffusion of ancient knowledge, imagined a new and enlightened world. At the heart of this activity, which bestselling author Ross King relates in his exhilarating new book, was a remarkable man: Vespasiano da Bisticci. Born in 1422, he became what a friend called "the king of the world's booksellers." At a time when all books were made by hand, over four decades Vespasiano produced and sold many hundreds of volumes from his bookshop, which also became a gathering spot for debate and discussion. Besides repositories of ancient wisdom by the likes of Plato, Aristotle, and Quintilian, his books were works of art in their own right, copied by talented scribes and illuminated by the finest miniaturists. His clients included a roll-call of popes, kings, and princes across Europe who wished to burnish their reputations by founding magnificent libraries. Vespasiano reached the summit of his powers as Europe's most prolific merchant of knowledge when a new invention appeared: the printed book. By 1480, the king of the world's booksellers was swept away by this epic technological disruption, whereby cheaply produced books reached readers who never could have afforded one of Vespasiano's elegant manuscripts. A chronicle of intellectual ferment set against the dramatic political and religious turmoil of the era, Ross King's The Bookseller of Florence is also an ode to books and bookmaking that charts the world-changing shift from script to print through the life of an extraordinary man long lost to history-one of the true titans of the Renaissance"-- |
| Umfang: | viii, 481 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen, Karte |
| ISBN: | 9780802158529 |
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| adam_text | Contents Chapter 1 The Street of Booksellers Chapter 2 The Pure Radiance of the Past 1 13 Chapter 3 Wondrous Treasures 32 Chapter 4 Athens on the Arno 40 Chapter 5 Wise Men from the East 59 Chapter 6 Vespasiano Mangiadore 79 Chapter 7 Antique Letters 99 Chapter 8 Friends in High Places 115 Chapter 9 The Fall of Greece 129 Chapter 10 The Miraculous Man 140 Chapter 11 The Decades of the King 156 Chapter 12 A Destiny of Dignity and Excellence 172 Chapter 13 The Spirit of Plato 184 Chapter 14 Uomini da Bene e Letterati 199 Chapter 15 Hermes the Thrice-Greatest 211 Chapter 16 A Divine Way of Writing 220 Chapter 17 The Finest Library Since Antiquity 231 Chapter 18 248 The Second Coming Chapter 19 Florentinis Ingeniis Nil Ardui Est 266 Chapter 20 For the Advantage of All Scholars 278 Chapter 21 289 Apud Sanctum Iacobum de Ripoli
viii Contents Chapter 22 A Reversal of Fortune 301 Chapter 23 317 How the Mighty Are Fallen Chapter 24 The Land of Oblivion 326 Chapter 25 Lament for Otranto 345 Chapter 26 Pardon and Deliver Us 359 Chapter 27 The Grand Conjunction 368 Epilogue: Chasing Away the Darkness 387 AcknowUdgments 401 Image Credits 405 Selected Bibliography 407 Notes 411 Index 453
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