Niccolo di Lorenzo della Magna and the Social World of Florentine Printing, ca. 1470-1493

A new history of one of the foremost printers of the Renaissance explores how the Age of Print came to Italy.Lorenz Boninger offers a fresh history of the birth of print in Italy through the story of one of its most important figures, Niccolo di Lorenzo della Magna. After having worked for several years for a judicial court in Florence, Niccolo established his business there and published a number...