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Genre/Form: | Fiction History Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Named Person: | Aldo Manuzio; Aldo Manuzio |
Material Type: | Document, Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alessandro Marzo Magno; Gregory Conti; H George Fletcher; ProQuest (Firm) |
ISBN: | 9781609451523 160945152X |
OCLC Number: | 1196834272 |
Notes: | Translation of: L'alba dei libri : quando Venezia ha fatto leggere il mondo. "This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously"--Title page verso. Grolier Club copy has annotations throughout by George Fletcher. |
Description: | 1 online resource (242 pages) |
Contents: | Venice, book capital of the world -- Aldus Manutius, the Michelangelo of books -- The first Talmud -- The lost Koran -- Armenians and Greeks -- The wind from the East -- Geography and war -- Music publishing -- Cures for the body: medicine, cosmetology, and gastronomy -- Pietro Aretino and birth of the author -- Decline, come back, and swan song. |
Other Titles: | Alba dei libri. Serene republic and the dawn of the book |
Responsibility: | Alessandro Marzo Magno ; translated from the Italian by Gregory Conti. |
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- Publishers and publishing -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 15th century -- Fiction.
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- Imprimerie -- Italie -- Venise -- Histoire -- 15e siècle -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
- Manuzio, Aldo, -- 1449 or 1450-1515.
- Printing.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Italy -- Venice.