Vespasiano Da Basticci

The Vespasiano Memoirs

Lives of Illustrious Men of the Xvth Century. 7th edition. Sprache: Englisch.

kartoniert , 476 Seiten

ISBN 0802079687

EAN 9780802079688

Veröffentlicht Mai 1997

Verlag/Hersteller University of Toronto Press

Übersetzer Übersetzt von William George, Emily Waters

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Beschreibung

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.

Portrait

By Vespasiano da Basticci, edited by William George and Emily Waters

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