Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna and the Social World of Florentine Printing, ca. 1470–1493.

Böninger's book is noteworthy both for the amount of information it contains as well as for the methodology that the author has used. Niccolò di Lorenzo also published Landino's I Disputationes Camaldulenses i , a study of the active and contemplative lives as illustrated through Virgil's I Aeneid i ; Leon Battista Alberti's I De re aedificatoria i , an important architectural treatise based on Vitruvius; and the vernacular translation of Gregory the Great's I Moralia i on the book of Job. Secondary scholarship in the area of bibliography and printing history is well represented, but it would have been nice in places to see more on a couple of the key authors that Niccolò di Lorenzo published (Landino, for example, has been the study of a good deal of scholarship in the last couple of generations that is not referenced here or integrated into the argument). [Extracted from the article]