De boekhandelaar van Florence: Over de renaissance, de boekdrukkunst en de veranderende kracht van ideeën (Roman)
Ross King
De Bezige Bij, 2021
€35,00
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. Beautiful manuscripts for the European elite were produced there and important works of classical antiquity were rediscovered and distributed. The store attracted the city’s greatest thinkers.
Then in 1476 a new technique arrives in Florence. The nunnery of San Jacopo di Ripoli on the other side of town acquires a printing press from a bankrupt German printer. In no time at all, the hard-working nuns are printing a series of books and pamphlets, initiating a flood of political, philosophical and religious ideas.
In The Bookseller of Florence, bestselling author Ross King unlocks the story of a local struggle with far-reaching consequences. The torrent of radical thought unleashed by the printed book would change the course of history; the printing press provided the breeding ground for the Renaissance and the Reformation, and paved the way for the Enlightenment – and for the modern world as we know it today. IN DUTCH!
ISBN: 9789403124414
