Dinesh's photos with the keyword: THE BOOK IN THE RENAISSANCE

Fig, 56 Copernicus, ‘De Revolutionibus’. On the title-page the owner, Willebrord Snell, affirms his support for Copernicus’s views and has disapproved of the cautious preface inserted by Andreas Oslander (without the author’s knowledge0, to the extent that Copernicus’s radical hypotheses ‘need not be true not even probable.’

The manuscript newsletter was a commercial service offered to those who needed regular access to up the date news. the digest of events from 1593 comes from the famous Fugger Newsletter in Germany en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_German_journalism

Erasmus's response to Luther's 'Bondage of Will' was prepared in furious haste for the Frankfurt fair. As brutally functional title-page shows, it needed little further advertisement than the names of the protagonists.

Humanist script: neat and clear, and the ancestor of the "Roman" type which modern books are printed. From a manuscript of Livy, C.1450

Figure 1 Boccaccio's vision of Petrarch. Petrarch was the hero and inspiration of generations of humanists: writers, scholars and book collectors