by Michelle Lovric · Virago · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781844080021
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«The Floating Book» is the historical novel by Michelle Lovric, published by Virago in paperback (496 pages, in English).
Venice, 1468. Sosia Simeon, a Venetian passionate about books, and Wendelin von Speyer, a German printer who sets up the city's first printing press, cross paths when he publishes Catullus's erotic poems. A love triangle with the scribe Felice Feliciano, and an obsessive nun and a priest who hates books conspire against them.
The work falls within historical and literary fiction, and the Virago edition dates from 2004.
For readers of historical fiction, the Venetian Renaissance, and stories about the world of books.
