About the book: 2022 / Renaissance Florence. These words bring to mind images of the beautiful creations of skilled artists and architects. But no less significant were the achievements of creators in another area: Florentine manuscript hunters, scribes, scientists and booksellers, who wiped away the dust of centuries from ancient knowledge, discovering and disseminating which they created a new enlightened world. It was in this area that Vespasiano da Bisticci achieved tremendous success - “the king of booksellers”, to whom a new exciting book is dedicated by Ross King, author of the bestsellers “Leonardo da Vinci and the Last Supper”, “Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel” and many others. Enlightened monarchs sought to decorate their libraries with manuscripts created under the leadership of Vespasiano and the Roman pontiffs... But the collapse of the grand enterprise of the “king of booksellers” was a foregone conclusion: printing made books accessible to many. The dramatic political and religious upheavals of the era, the history of philosophical thought and the European world during the period of grandiose and fateful changes are presented by Ross King through the prism of the biography of an extraordinary man, unfairly forgotten by history, Vespasiano da Bisticci - a true titan of the Renaissance. Publishing design preserved in PDF A4 format.