RICABIM

"This work is a study on the very first spread of printing in Florence, the privileged production site of manuscript books. The study is based on the perusal and analysis of ancient inventories, catalogues and book lists that describe the ownership of numerous libraries throughout the city between 1470 and 1520. The main reason for this investigation is that Florence can be considered, for all intents and purposes, a book history capital owing to the variety and number of printed volumes produced in the first two decades of the sixteenth century. After an introduction to the objectives and…