Wagner/Seiter: Gutenberg and the secret of the Sibyl

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Graphic Novel

In 1438, William of Diest, the bishop Strasborg, alerted Pope Eugene IV that numerous copies of Sibyl's Prophecy, a heretical poem by Konrad Schmid, were circulating in his city. What troubled the bishop, was that all the copies were absolutelyy identical, as if the scribe tasked with copying them had been able to reproduce the same text an infinite number of times without the tiniest difference.

This intrigued the Pope enough for him to ask his friend Cosimo de' Medici to investigate it. So in December 1438, four Italian cut-throats embarked for Strasbourg. They very quickly focused on a Mainz exile by the name of Johannes Gensfleisch, known as Gutenberg. In reality, with his partners Andreas Dritzehn, Hans Rifle and Andreas Heilmann, Gutenberg had founded an enterprise that was far more mysterious...

Graphic Novel about Johannes Gutenberg's time in Straßburg 1438, illustrated by Roger Seiter.

Vincent Wagner and Roger Seiter: Gutenberg and the secret of the Sibyl. Hardback, 72 pages, Éditions du Signe 2018. English edition.

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