The Renaissance, Printing and the Changing Power of Ideas
A compelling story about ‘the king of the booksellers’

In the mid-15th century, it was said that all the wisdom in the world could be found in Vespasiano da Bisticci’s bookshop in Florence. There, beautiful manuscripts for the European elite were produced and important works of the Classical era were rediscovered and distributed. The store attracted the city’s greatest thinkers.
Then a new technique arrives in Florence in 1476. The nunnery of San Jacopo di Ripoli on the other side of the city obtained a printing press from a bankrupt German printer. In no time, the hard-working nuns are printing a series of books and pamphlets, triggering a stream of political, philosophical and religious ideas.
In The Florence Bookseller bestselling author Ross King unlocks the story of a local battle with far-reaching consequences. The deluge of radical currents of thought unleashed by the printed book would change the course of history; the printing press was the breeding ground for the Renaissance and Reformation, paving the way for the Enlightenment – and for the modern world as we know it today.
ISBN 9789403124414
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