Author: Piero Brezzi
Title: Storia del libro antico e dell'editoria - dai codici ad internet (History of Ancient Book and of the World of Publishing - from codex to Internet)
Introduction: Fabio Massimo Bertolo
Size: cm 17 x 24, 336 pages,
filo refe binding, hardback
ISBN: 88-87320-10-2
Price: € 44,00.
Subject: A fascinating historical itinerary ranging from ancient times to the Internet era, illustrating how books, fruit of one of the most revolutionary inventions, have contributed to the development of humans and cultures. Since the time of Greek and Latin classics, through Renaissance and Baroque, with the first scientific discoveries, the development of natural sciences, alchemy and its faint boundaries with magic and esotericism, all knowledge has found in books the principal vehicle for the development of understanding and knowledge.
The text is complemented by an extremely rich analytical index.
Text in Italian
Commentary: “ It is a reading which I recommend to all those who are keen on the subject, not only collectors but also specialists of the history of civilisation in its different forms of transmission, because it is undeniable that the history of book epitomizes the evolution of all Western thought ”.
Fabio Massimo Bertolo
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