Thea Vignau-wilberg

Now back in print, the ultimate booklover's gift book—Los Angeles Times In 1561–62, the master calligrapher Georg Bocskay (died 1575), imperial secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, created Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta (Model Book of Calligraphy) as a demonstration of his own preeminence among scribes. Some thirty years later, Ferdinand's grandson, the Emperor Rudolf II, commissioned Europe's last great...