All right. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on tonight show of a very special guest. He comes to us from the UK. His name is Ross King, and he just published an excellent book. I highly recommend. Publish it on April 2021. The title of the book is the bookseller of Florence, the story of the manuscripts that illuminated the Renaissance. And this is not his first book.

He's also written other titles.

One is Michelangelo and the Pope's ceiling from 2002.

The Judgment of Paris, the Revolutionary Decade

that gave the world Impressionism 2006.

That was a Governor General's Award book.

Also Leonardo and The Last Supper.

Also Brunelleschi's Dome, how a Renaissance genius reinvented architecture in 2013.

Matt Enchantment, Claude Monet and the painting of the water lilies from 2017.

He's also published two novels, Domino and Ex Libras, as well as a biography of Niccolo Machiavelli, titled

Machiavelli Philosopher of Power, and also a collection of Leonardo da Vinci's Fables, Jokes and Riddles.

He's also the co-author with Anya Grieve of Florence, The Paintings and Fresco's, 1250 to 1743 from 2015.

It's the most comprehensive book ever undertaken on the Art of Florence.

And his website is ross kingbooks.com.

Again, www. Ross King Books, all one word.

He also has a YouTube channel titled Renaissance Discovery.

But in the intro to this book is a quote that I think is very fitting that covers the contents of the book.

And that quote is, all evil is born from ignorance.

Yet writers have illuminated the world chasing away the darkness by Vespasiano da Pastici,

who is really the central character of this book.

So Mr. Ross, Mr. King, can you talk about your background?

I mean, you have a very lengthy background.

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