By Anton Bruder

The chunky, leather-bound little fellow known as Lk Sammelbd 64 is a time capsule of popular reading in Florence around the time of Cosimo I de Medici. The artistic and intellectual hotbed of the Renaissance in the Quattrocento, by the mid sixteenth century Florence was now an industrious and bustling city of around 60,000 souls, many of whom frequently turned to reading as a leisure activity.

By Anton Bruder

This curious little book has more claim than most to being considered truly unique: a short love story printed in not two, not three, but four vernacular languages side-by-side.