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In fifteenth-century Venice, a love triangle involving editor Bruno Uguccione, seductive scribe Felice Feliciano, and Sosia Simeon, a beautiful but heartless Dalmatian woman, is turned upside down by the decision of Wendelin von Speyer, a German publisher, to publish the first printed edition of Catullus using Gutenberg's revolutionary movable type. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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Venice, 1468. Wendelin von Speyer has just arrived from Germany with the foundations of a cultural revolution: Gutenberg's movable type. Together with the young editor Bruno Uguccione and the seductive scribe Felice Feliciano, he starts the city's first printing press. While Bruno and Felice become entwined in an obsessive love triangle with a beautiful Dalmatian woman named Sosia, Wendelin tempts the fates by publishing the first edition of the erotic Roman poems of Catullus -- a move that will enrage the church, scandalize the city, and change all of their lives forever.The Floating Book is a ravishing novel of letters and lust, intrigue and betrayal -- a chillingly beautiful debut that few readers will soon forget.
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