Excerpt from Francesco Bartolozzi: A Biographical Essay<br><br>Not only Italy of the Renaissance was to be seen by him in Florence with all her beauties of colour and form, but some of the glories of Greece and Rome from which the Florentine painters had received their vita nuova were gathered in the great galleries of the city with their divine realisation of the perfect human form. It is not surprising, therefore, that Bartolozzi should have been a life-long interpreter of classic models.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.