The bookseller of Florence : the story of the manuscripts that illuminated the Renaissance
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802158529
- ISBN: 0802158528
- ISBN: 9780802158536
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Physical Description:
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481 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm - Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2021.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The street of the booksellers -- The pure radiance of the past -- Wondrous treasures -- Athens on the Arno -- Wise men from the East -- Vespasiano Mangiadore -- Antique letters -- Friends in high places -- The fall of Greece -- The miraculous man -- The decades of the king -- A destiny of dignity and excellence -- The spirit of Plato -- Uomini da Bene e Letterati -- Hermes the Thrice-Greatest -- A divine way of writing -- The finest library since antiquity -- The second coming -- Florentinis Ingeniis nil Ardui est -- For the advantage of all scholars -- Apud Sanctum Iacobum de Ripoli -- A reversal of fortune -- How the might are fallen -- The land of oblivion -- Lament for Otranto -- Pardon and deliver us -- The grand conjunction -- Epilogue : Chasing away the darkness. |
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Genre: | Biography. Biographies. History. Biographies. |
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Homer Public Library | 381.45 KIN (Text) | 000161012 | Nonfiction | Available | - |