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“The Bookseller of Florence” by Ross King
“Against the … backdrop of Renaissance Florence, [this book] brings to light an extraordinary story about the city and its culture–that of Vespasiano da Bisticci, the ‘king of the world’s booksellers,’ Florence’s most indispensable and prolific merchant of knowledge. His bookshop in the heart of Florence was a gathering place for the city’s most prominent poets and philosophers, and it was there that Vespasiano and his team of scribes created beautiful illuminated manuscripts for their clients, a cast of powerful popes and wealthy European princes. But in 1476, as Vespasiano began working on one of his most famed and gorgeous works–the Urbino Bible–the printing press came to Florence and threatened his life’s work”
