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The Bookseller of Florence is a tour de force, a sweeping, yet meticulous, account of one man's life and work, that in many ways illuminated the cultural achievements of the Italian Renaissance against the political, social, economic, and cultural oscillations expressed in this effervescent period of history. One man who stood out among many is the subject of Ross King's intelligent, well

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The Bookseller of Florence is the story of Vespasiano's career, set against the story of bookmaking during the shift from hand written and illuminated manuscripts bound in velvet and jewels to the mass production of the printing press. ... the claim in Ross King's book is that it was Burkhardt's encounter with a work by Vespasiano in his

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The New York Times -bestselling author of Brunelleschi's Dome captures the Renaissance spirit in this biography of "the king of the world's booksellers." During the Renaissance, Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and diffusion of ancient knowledge, imagined a new and enlightened

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The Bookseller of Florence is a dazzling, instructive and highly entertaining book, worthy of the great bookseller it celebrates'. 'The scope of King's knowledge is staggering and his book bulges with facts. They are at their most enticing when they relate to physical processes such as the details of Vespasiano's manuscript production ….

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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. The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant

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01/25/2021. Art historian King (Brunelleschi's Dome) delivers a richly detailed portrait of 15th-century Florence and the important role booksellers played in disseminating ancient Greek and Latin texts that were vital to the Renaissance.King focuses on Vespasiano da Bisticci, a renowned bookseller and "manuscript hunter" who produced gorgeously illustrated parchment copies of

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Praise for The Bookseller of Florence: "If you want to celebrate the place that bookmaking and bookselling still have in our lives, notwithstanding all those hours captive to the digital glimmer, you could do a lot worse than immerse yourself in Ross King's rich history of Vespasiano da Bisticci, 'the king of the world's booksellers, ' in 15th-century Florence . . .

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"The Bookseller of Florence," by Ross King, tells the history of Renaissance bookmaking through the story of Vespasiano da Bisticci, who rose from humble roots to dominate the trade.

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The Bookseller of Florence. Ross King. National Geographic Books, Apr 13, 2021 - Biography & Autobiography - 496 pages. 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

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Ross King is a renowned expert in the Italian Renaissance. He is the author of numerous bestselling and acclaimed books include Brunelleschi's Dome, Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, Leonardo and the Last Supper and Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies.His love of Renaissance Florence, which he has been studying, writing and lecturing about for over twenty

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The New York Times-bestselling author of Brunelleschi's Dome captures the Renaissance spirit in this biography of "the king of the world's booksellers."During the Renaissance, Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and diffusion of ancient knowledge, imagined a new and enlightened

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The book tells the story of Vespasiano de Bisticci, the prominent book maker and book seller of Florence in the 15th century. Vespasiano supplied books all across Italy, to the Popes, the Medici, the Sforza, and many others including Duke Montefeltro of Urbino - military general and book lover.

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The Bookseller of Florence is a tour de force, a sweeping, yet meticulous, account of one man's life and work, that in many ways illuminated the cultural achievements of the Italian Renaissance against the political, social, economic, and cultural oscil-lations expressed in this eervescent period of history. One man who stood out among many

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Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance. Ross King. Atlantic Monthly, $30 (496p) ISBN 978--8021-5852-9.

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KELLY: Ross King talking there about his latest book, "The Bookseller Of Florence: The Story Of The Manuscripts That Illuminated The Renaissance." Ross King, thank you. KING: Pleasure - thank you.

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Recorded April 29, 2021Celebrated for his skill at "elucidating crucial episodes in the history of art and architecture" (Time), Ross King is the author of m

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As for Vespasiano, the bookseller: In 1480, at the age of 58, he reported on tax returns that he was "no longer in business." By then, King notes, Florence already had two established printing presses. The bookseller would not yield, glorifying "the pen-made book" and refusing even to stock and sell those produced by presses.

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The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance by Ross King has an overall rating of Positive based on 10 book reviews. Features New Books

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Ross King. (2021). The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. pp. xiv + 481 with Selected Bibliography, Notes and Index, $30.00 (Hardcover). ISBN-13: 978--8021-5852-9.

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