A gripping story of ancient wisdom, new technology and 'the king of the world's booksellers', set in Renaissance Florence
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 years, made Vespasiano's long-forgotten story - never written about before - an irresistible next subject. He lives just outside Oxford.
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
*New York Times*
Excellent . . . a fascinating read . . . Though ostensibly a
biography of Vespasiano, he is less the book's subject than its
method: a window on to the intellectual, political and
technological developments of a time in radical ferment . . .
entertaining, witty and expert
*Daily Telegraph*
A brilliant narrative that seamlessly weaves together intellectual
debate, technological exploration and the excitement of new ways of
thinking about ethics, politics and human capability
*Rowan Williams*
A terrific and utterly absorbing read, full of narrative pace and
remarkable breadth and depth of scholarship. It deserves to make
the bestseller lists . . . I haven't enjoyed a history book as much
for years
*John Guy*
The Bookseller of Florence is a way of entering the world of
Renaissance humanism and its fascination with the writings of the
past at a time when these were still - but not for much longer -
handwritten
*Oldie*
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