Download or read book Niccol Di Lorenzo Della Magna and the Social World of Florentine Printing Ca 1470 1493 written by Lorenz Bninger and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history of one of the foremost printers of the Renaissance explores how the Age of Print came to Italy. Lorenz Bninger offers a fresh history of the birth of print in Italy through the story of one of its most important figures, Niccol di Lorenzo della Magna. After having worked for several years for a judicial court in Florence, Niccol established his business there and published a number of influential books. Among these were Marsilio FicinoÕs De christiana religione, Leon Battista AlbertiÕs De re aedificatoria, Cristoforo LandinoÕs commentaries on DanteÕs Commedia, and Francesco BerlinghieriÕs Septe giornate della geographia. Many of these books were printed in vernacular Italian. Despite his prominence, Niccol has remained an enigma. A meticulous historical detective, Bninger pieces together the thorough portrait that scholars have been missing. In doing so, he illuminates not only NiccolÕs life but also the Italian printing revolution generally. Combining Renaissance studiesÕ traditional attention to bibliographic and textual concerns with a broader social and economic history of printing in Renaissance Italy, Bninger provides an unparalleled view of the business of printing in its earliest years. The story of Niccol di Lorenzo furnishes a host of new insights into the legal issues that printers confronted, the working conditions in printshops, and the political forces that both encouraged and constrained the publication and dissemination of texts.
Download or read book The Bookseller of Florence written by Ross King and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome captures the Renaissance spirit in this biography of “the king of the world’s booksellers.” During the Renaissance, Florence’s manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers 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, Vespasiano produced and sold many hundreds of volumes from his bookshop, which also became a gathering spot for debate and discussion. 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, he 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. “A dazzling, instructive and highly entertaining book.” —The Wall Street Journal
Download or read book The Literature of Printing written by Richard March Hoe and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fifteenth century Books written by Robert Alexander Peddie and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A List of Books on the History and Art of Printing written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions of the Bibliographical Society written by Bibliographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. 1.
Download or read book Fifteenth Century Books A Guide to their Identification written by Robert Alexander Peddie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antiquæ Libri - The Archaeology of the Book - ATB-1305In this volume Peddie gives a brief account of sources of information on many aspects of fifteenth century books. For such a brief book Peddie provides sources on topics ranging from block prints, woodcuts, engravings, book illustration, maps, initials, printers' marks, colophons, title pages, signatures, water marks, facsimiles, Greek printing, Hebrew printing and music printing. He also outlines bibliographies of national catalogues and general works.
Download or read book Transactions of the Bibliographical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book BIBLIOTHECA BIBLIOGRAPHICA ITALICA written by Giuseppe Ottino and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Library of the Late Theodore Low De Vinne written by Theodore Low De Vinne and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supplement to the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art written by National Art Library (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art written by Victoria and Albert museum (Londres). National art library and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sale Catalogues written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Technical Reference Library of Works on Printing and the Allied Arts written by St. Bride Foundation Institute. Technical Reference Library and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Printing Times and Lithogapher written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ottaviano Petrucci written by Stanley Boorman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The innovative work in design, typography, and content of music printer and publisher Ottaviano Petrucci (1446-1539) became the standard by which all following printers measured themselves. He created the defining moment when Italy took the lead in book printing in the Renaissance.This book is a bibliographic study of the output of the Petrucci presses, laying emphasis on the professional career of Petrucci. It includes a detailed study of technique and house-style, examining the market forces that drove Petrucci's publishing decisions, and provides a detailed catalogue of editions and copies.Stanley Boorman has made a study of the output of Petrucci's presses for 25 years. This long-awaited contribution to the field of bibliography will have an audience both in music and in rare book bibliography.
Download or read book The Tosti Engravings written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
