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The bookseller of Florence : the story of the manuscripts that illuminated the Renaissance

Author

Ross King

Call Number

  • 945.5 K543 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Atlantic Monthly Press 2021.

Physical Description

481 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm

Summary

"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."--Inside front flap of dust jacket.

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