The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts ...
King, Ross / Stewart, James Cameron![The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/440/44006098/CHSBZCOP0344006098.jpg)
The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings--the dazzling handiwork of the city's skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and diffusion of ancient knowledge, imagined a new and enlig...