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Find more info., search and price compare for The Vespasiano Memoirs: Lives of Illustrious Men of the Xvth Century (RSART: Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text Series) by Vespasiano da Bisticci ; W G Waters Binding: Paperback, 7th edition, 476 pages Publisher: University of Toronto Press Weight: 1.64 pound Dimension: H: 1.42 x L: 9.03 x W: 6.02 inches ISBN 10: 0802079687 ISBN 13: 9780802079688 Click here to search for this book and compare price at 40+ bookstores with AddALL.com! If you cannot find this book in our new and in print search, be sure to try our used and out of print search too! |
Book Description: Vespasiano da Bisticci (b. 1421) was a Florentine bookseller known as the most celebrated dealer of books and manuscripts of his generation. The renewed interest in Greek and Roman texts brought about by the rise of humanism inspired many wealthy individuals to seek codices of the best ancient and early Christian works. Vespasiano's bookshop became a meeting place for learned men, and he acquired patrons as illustrious as Cosimo de'Medici, Federigo da Montefeltro, the Duke of Urbino, Mathias Corvinus, the King of Hungary, and John Tiptoft, Earl of Worchester. The invention of the printing press proved to be too much competition for da Bisticci, and he retired to write his memoirs and biographical sketches of his friends and patrons. Vespasiano da Bisticci's memoirs are a valuable resource in the history of politics, warfare and intellectual history, written from the perspective of an intelligent man who was able to watch and comment on the events of his age from a privileged position. |
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