Ross King

The Bookseller of Florence

The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The bestselling author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling captures the excitement and spirit of the Renaissance in this chronicle of the life and work of "the king of the world's booksellers" and the technological disruption that forever changed the ways knowledge spread

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Atlantic
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 151mm x 228mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 606g
• ISBN-13: 9780802159830
• ISBN-10: 0802159834
• Artikelnr.: 62428050

Autorenporträt

Ross King is the award-winning and bestselling author of Brunelleschi's Dome, Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, The Judgment of Paris, Mad Enchantment, Leonardo and the Last Supper, and Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power, among other books. He and his wife live in Woodstock, Great Britain.

Rezensionen

If you want to celebrate the place that bookmaking and bookselling still have in our lives . . . immerse yourself in Ross King's rich history of Vespasiano da Bisticci, "the king of the world's booksellers," in 15th-century Florence . . . wonderful Simon Schama New York Times