Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Their Books and BindingsThis book, first published in 1999, studies and compares two sixteenth-century libraries. Jean Grolier's was a bibliophilic 'cabinet' of fine books; Diego Hurtado de Mendoza's was a much larger and more scholarly collection; a full catalogue is provided for the first time. Both men were greatly influenced by experience of Italy. Grolier has been called 'the Prince of Bibliophiles'; the books he commissioned have long been famous. This is the first full account of his life for eighty years. Hurtado de Mendoza was a poet, historian, Greek scholar and Arabist. He served as the Emperor's Ambassador in Venice (1540-6), to the Council of Trent (1545-6), and to the Pope (1547-52). In Venice he set out to form for Spain a collection of Greek manuscripts to rival that being formed for France by Francis I's agents. Anthony Hobson's text is complemented by ninety-one illustrations, several thematic indexes, eleven appendices and a bibliography. |
Contents
List of illustrations page ix | 4 |
Acknowledgements | xvii |
Bindings by the Emblematic Binder 265 | xviii |
the early years 3 | 19 |
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Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza ... Anthony Hobson No preview available - 2012 |
Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza ... Anthony Hobson No preview available - 1999 |
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