The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 8vo.  xii, 243 pp.  8 plates and  39 illustrations, a few of which are in color.  Red cloth boards, with near fine dust jacket.

First edition.  "The Renaissance Bazaar  tells the story of this intense exchange of ideas, objects, and skills that shaped the European Renaissance.  It also show how technology and co0mmercial developmnets such as printing, banking, and mapmaking were inextricably connected to the great art, literature, science, and discoveries that have come to typify the Renaissance." 

Much information on the humanism in Italy, Italian scholarship (truncated) into the Greek and Latin classics, commercial connections with the Arab world, and exchange of science and technology from the Middle East to Europe.  The author, Jerry Brotton has published half-dozen books and is recognized as one of England's most popular historians. (Inventory #: 875)