Gutenberg's Apprentice A Novel Author:Alix Christie Youthful, ambitious Peter Schoeffer is on the verge of professional success as a scribe in Paris when his foster father, the wealthy merchant an bookseller, Johann Fust, summons him home to corruption-riddled, feud-plagued Mainz to meet "a most amazing man." — Johann Gutenberg, a driven and caustic inventor, has devised a revolutionary - and, to ... more »some, blasphemous-method of bookmaking: a machine he calls a printing press. Fust is financing Gutenberg's workshop, and he orders Peter to become Gutenberg's apprentice. Resentful at having to abandon a prestigious career as a scribe, Peter begins his education in the "darkest art."« less