La confessione di Gutenberg

Around 1400, in the city of Mainz, a man was born whose heretical invention was to change history. Sixty-odd years later he died- robbed of his business, his printing presses, and, so he thought, his immortality.
Reading between the lines of history, Blake Morrison has woven a stunning novel around the few facts known about the life and work of Johann Gensfleisch, aka Gutenberg, master printer, charmer, conman and visionary- the man who invented "artificial writing." He has been called the most influential man of the last millennium. He launched a communications revolution- and changed the written word forever. This is his tale, and the story behind his heretical invention.