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The bookseller of Florence, the story of the manuscripts that illuminated the Renaissance, Ross King

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The bookseller of Florence, the story of the manuscripts that illuminated the Renaissance, Ross King
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The bookseller of Florence
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Ross King
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the story of the manuscripts that illuminated the Renaissance
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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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