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BNF, 2024 4to (27.5 cm), 263, [1] pp. Publisher's boards. This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition "The Invention of the Renaissance: The Humanist, the Prince, and the Artist" held at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France from February 20 to June 16, 2024. Humanist culture profoundly renewed the relationship with knowledge in the 14th and 15th centuries. Starting from the foundational figure of Petrarch, a scholar of a new kind who advocates the study of ancient texts with an ethical purpose, this catalog seeks to demonstrate how this ideal is realized through the collection of manuscripts of classical authors from antiquity and their transmission through copies and translations. This literary culture is complemented by a visual culture fueled by a passion for antiquity and aims to magnify the text by developing a new decorative vocabulary, both in illuminated manuscripts and in bindings. It will also lead to a new art of portraiture, embracing the humanist theme… Read More