Seán Jennett
Seán Jennett (1912–1981) was a poet, typographer, production manager, editor, and travel writer. The author of three volumes of poetry, he also wrote guides to many cities and regions around the world, as well as The Making of Books, which stood for years as the definitive work on printing, binding, and book design, going through numerous editions.
Felix Platter
Foreword by Stephen Greenblatt
Translated and introduced by Seán Jennett
“Like the diary of Samuel Pepys or the memoirs of François-René de Chateaubriand, Beloved Son Felix [is] an invaluable and entertaining firsthand exploration of a bygone era . . . We are allowed a rare glimpse into the street-level experiences of a common Renaissance man.” —Michael Patrick Brady, The Wall Street Journal
The wildly vivid, rare, and revealing journals of a sixteenth-century medical student.