Niccolņ di Lorenzo della Magna and the Social World of Florentine Printing, ca. 14701493 [Kõva köide]

A richly contextualized portrait of a premodern entrepreneur, one assuredly of interest to inquisitive business historians[ A] concise and diligent economic biography. -- Robert Fredona * Business History Review * [ This book is] the first full-length study of this still rather elusive figure, and as such makes an important contribution to the scholarship of early printing in Italywe owe Böninger our gratitude for his painstaking reconstruction of these relationships and social and legal interactions in a charged period of Florentine history, and for his further contribution to widening our knowledge of the intellectual history of the Quattrocento. -- Guyda Armstrong * Renaissance and Reformation * Lorenz Böninger has undoubtedly performed an immense service for our understanding of the history of early printing in the cradle of the Renaissance. -- Neil Harris * The Library * An ambitious and successful effort to shed light on the social conditions, human networks, and labor practices that underpinned the earliest book production in one of the fifteenth centurys most dynamicbut also mercurialcenters. Building upon his numerous excellent essays and books on artisan culture and immigrant communities in Renaissance Florence, Böninger fills an extremely important lacuna in our knowledge of early Italian printing. -- Sean Roberts, author of Printing a Mediterranean World A tour de force of scholarship. Böninger has done a brilliant job of combining known and unknown documents with the literature on the pertinent literary, economic, social, and religious history to create the best and fullest history of Niccolņ di Lorenzo della Magna and his world to date. -- John Monfasani, author of Greeks and Latins in Renaissance Italy