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100 1  King, Ross,|d1962-|eauthor. 
245 14 The bookseller of Florence /|cRoss King. 
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520    The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful 
       frescoes and elegant buildings-the dazzling handiwork of 
       the city's skilled artists and architects. But equally 
       important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a 
       different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, 
       scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a 
       thousand years of history and, through the discovery and 
       diffusion of ancient knowledge, imagined a new and 
       enlightened world.   At the heart of this activity, which 
       bestselling author Ross King relates in his exhilarating 
       new book, was a remarkable man: Vespasiano da Bisticci. 
       Born in 1422, he 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.   Vespasiano reached the summit of 
       his powers as Europe's most prolific merchant of knowledge
       when a new invention appeared: the printed book. By 1480, 
       the king of the world's booksellers was swept away by this
       epic technological disruption, whereby cheaply produced 
       books reached readers who never could have afforded one of
       Vespasiano's elegant manuscripts.   A thrilling chronicle 
       of intellectual ferment set against the dramatic political
       and religious turmoil of the era, Ross King's brilliant 
       The Bookseller of Florence is also an ode to books and 
       bookmaking that charts the world-changing shift from 
       script to print through the life of an extraordinary man 
       long lost to history-one of the true titans of the 
       Renaissance. 
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600 00 Vespasiano,|cda Bisticci,|d1421-1498. 
650  0 Booksellers and bookselling|zItaly|zFlorence|xHistory|yTo 
       1500. 
650  0 Booksellers and bookselling|zItaly|zFlorence|vBiography. 
650  0 Manuscript design|zItaly|zFlorence|xHistory. 
650  0 Printing presses|zItaly|zFlorence|xHistory. 
650  0 Electronic books. 
650  0 Books and reading|zItaly|zFlorence|xHistory|yTo 1500. 
651  0 Florence (Italy)|xIntellectual life|yTo 1500. 
651  0 Florence (Italy)|xHistory|y1421-1737. 
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