To Wake the Dead A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology

Name: To Wake the Dead A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology
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ISBN: 9780393065541

ISBN-10: 0393065545

ISBN-13: 9780393065541

Edition: 2009

Authors: Marina Belozerskaya, Belozerskaya

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How Cyriacus of Anconaâ€”merchant, spy, and amateur classicistâ€”traveled the world, fighting to save ancient monuments for posterity. At the beginning of the fifteenth century, a young Italian bookkeeper fell under the spell of the classical past. Despite his limited education, the Greeks and Romans seemed to speak directly to himâ€”not from books but from the physical ruins and inscriptions that lay neglected around the shores of the Mediterranean. As an international merchant, Cyriacus of Ancona was accustomed to the perils of travel in foreign landsâ€”unlike his more scholarly peers with their handsome libraries and wealthy patrons, who benefited greatly from the discoveries…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/31/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Marina Belozerskaya is the author of The Medici Giraffe: And Other Tales of Exotic Animals and Power, The Arts of Tuscany from the Etruscans to Ferragamo, and Luxury Arts of the Renaissance. She lives with her husband in Los Angeles.