Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers
- ISBN-10
- 0472106260
- ISBN-13
- 9780472106264
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 237
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Author
- Anthony Grafton
Description
A distinctive history of the traditions of reading and life in the Renaissance library, as seen in the texts of Renaissance intellectuals
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