The Bookseller of Florence : : the Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
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Read by James Cameron Stewart.
Born in 1422, Vespasiano da Bisticci 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.
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PUBLISHED
[Old Saybrook, Connecticut] : Tantor, [2021]
Year Published: 2021
Description: 15 audio discs (18 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9798200465798
9798200465804
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Stewart, Cameron.
SUBJECTS
Vespasiano, -- da Bisticci, -- 1421-1498.
Booksellers and bookselling -- Florence -- Biography.
Booksellers and bookselling -- Florence -- History -- To 1500.
Publishers and publishing -- Florence -- History -- To 1500.
Printing -- Origin and antecedents.
Manuscripts, Renaissance -- Florence.
Florence (Italy) -- Intellectual life -- To 1500.
Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737.