Period of profound change, the civilization of the Renaissance will be completely new design of the book in the decades that constitute it.
No other period in the history of the book has lived much
change and innovation, Gothic post-incunabula (again imitating the medieval manuscript) and
the first experiments Alde in Venice, conquests of typography and layout (the
current book still bears the traces) in the last
impressions of the late sixteenth century, the evolution of
binders, religious book and learned the trade book
and entertaining whose sixteenth established the rules, the book
Renaissance reflects what was for
Europe its antiquity.
There is no fewer than twenty million
books circulating in Europe in the late sixteenth century,
but multiple conflicts and wars have reduced
this extraordinary production to a trickle,
and the books have become very rare today.
That is why the library is happy
to offer this intellectual journey in this
civilization disappeared bibliophiles his friends.