King moved to England to take up a position as a post-doctoral research fellow at University College, London. from York University in Toronto (1992), where he specialized eighteenth-century English literature. Continuing his studies at the University of Regina, he received a Master of Arts degree in 1986 upon completing a thesis on the poet T.S. He received his undergraduate university education at the University of Regina, where in 1984 he completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in English Literature. King was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada and was raised in the nearby village of North Portal. He began his career by writing two works of historical fiction in the 1990s, later turning to non-fiction, and has since written several critically acclaimed and best-selling historical works. Ross King (born July 16, 1962) is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. “A dazzling, instructive and highly entertaining book.” - The Wall Street Journal 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.Ī 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.
Vespasiano reached the summit of his powers as Europe’s most prolific merchant of knowledge when a new invention the printed book. His clients included a roll-call of popes, kings, and princes across Europe who wished to burnish their reputations by founding magnificent libraries.
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. 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.”ĭuring 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.Īt the heart of this activity, which bestselling author Ross King relates in his exhilarating new book, was a remarkable Vespasiano da Bisticci.
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