Valerie Browne Lester (Libri)

Valerie Browne Lester Libri

Valerie Lester è un'autrice il cui lavoro si concentra principalmente su soggetti biografici e storici, con un vivo interesse per artisti e figure significative in vari campi. Il suo stile di scrittura riporta in vita il passato attraverso un'accurata esplorazione delle vite e dei contributi dei suoi soggetti. Lester dimostra anche un talento per la traduzione, estendendo la sua portata letteraria a livello internazionale. I suoi libri offrono ai lettori un viaggio avvincente nelle vite di coloro che hanno plasmato i paesaggi artistici e culturali.

Giambattista Bodoni

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For most people the name Bodoni conjures up the elegant and frequently used typeface the master typographer designed and engraved in the eighteenth century. But until this volume, there has been no full-scale attempt in English to present a complete picture of the man, his times, and the extraordinary work he created over a long and fully engaged lifetime. Valerie Lester has examined the documents, the sources, the matrices, and the books themselves firsthand and has written a compelling and penetrating portrait not only of the printer himself, but of the turbulent times in which he lived, with an emphasis on his adopted city of Parma and the cultural climate that permeated it, and much of Italy, in the late eighteenth century. Fully illustrated with examples of his work and the personalities who played important roles in his life, this biography presents "the prince of printers" at his singular best. Book jacket.