Later Travels

Name: Later Travels
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ISBN: 9780674007581

ISBN-10: 0674007581

ISBN-13: 9780674007581

Edition: 2003

Authors: Cyriac of Cyriac of Ancona, Edward W. Bodnar, Cyriac of Ancon Staff

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Early Renaissance humanists discovered the culture of ancient Greece and Rome mostly through the study of classical manuscripts. Cyriac of Ancona (Ciriaco de' Pizzecolli, 1391-1452), a merchant and diplomat as well as a scholar, was among the first to study the physical remains of the ancient world in person and for that reason is sometimes regarded as the father of classical archaeology. His travel diaries and letters are filled with descriptions of classical sites, drawings of buildings and statues, and copies of hundreds of Latin and Greek inscriptions. Cyriac came to see it as his calling to record the current state of the remains of antiquity and to lobby with local authorities for…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 2/17/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Edward W. Bodnar (1920-2011) was Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at Georgetown University.



Introduction


Map Illustrations December 1443 to 4 May 1444: Ascoli Piceno to Foglia Nuova



To Emperor John VIII Palaiologos, after 26 February 1444, off Euboea



To Cardinal Giuliano Cesarini, 3 December 1443, Ragusa



To Andreolo Giustiniani-Banca, 29 March 1444, Chios



To Andreolo, 2 April 1444, Foglia Nuova



To Andreolo, 27 March 1444, Manisa



To Andreolo, 24 April 1444, Foglia Nuova



To Andreolo, 4 May 1444, Foglia Nuova 22 May to 21 July 1444: Adrianople and Constantinople



To Andreolo, 22 May 1444, Adrianople 9, 9a,



To ?Andreolo, 12 June 1444, Adrianople



To Andreolo, 18 June 1444, Adrianople



To ?John Hunyadi, 12 June 1444, Adrianople



To ?John Hunyadi, 24 June 1444, Galata/Pera



To ?Andreolo, 19 July 1444, Constantinople



To Andreolo, 21 July 1444, Constantinople 25 July 1444 to 25 February 1445: The Propontis and Northern Aegean Diary I: Travels in the Propontis, 25 July to 12 August 1444 (including letter 14)



To Raffaele Castiglione, 12 August 1444, Perinthus



To Andreolo, 27 August 1444, Constantinople



To Giuliano Cesarini, 12 and 19 September 1444, Constantinople Diary II: Travels in the Northern Aegean, 20 September 1444 to January 1445 (including letters 17 and 18)



To George Scholarios, 29 September 1444, Imbros



To an unknown addressee, 29 September 1444, Imbros



To Giovanni Pedemontano, January 1445, Ainos



To Boruele Grimaldi, 19 January 1445, Ainos



To Andreolo, 25 February 1445, Lemnos April to December 1445: The Cyclades and Crete



To Andreolo, 4 April 1445, Mykonos Diary III: Travels in the Cyclades, April 1445



To Niccolo Zancarolo, 5 July 1445, Cydonia, Crete



To ?Andreolo, 15 July 1445, Cydonia Diary IV: Travels in Crete, July to October 1445 (including letters 25 and 26)



To Melchiore Bandini, 12 August 1445, Candia, Crete



To M. Lepomagno, ?October 1445, ?Candia



To Andreolo, 7 November 1445, Candia



To Andreolo, December 1445, Paros 13 January to 8 April 1446: Chios, Miletus, Lesbos, Foglia Nuova



To Andreolo, after 13 January 1446, Chios



To Andreolo, after 1 February 1446, ?Miletus



From Andreolo to Buonaccorso Grimani, 12 February 1446, Chios



To Andreolo, 2 March 1446, Khardamyla, Chios



To Andreolo, 6 March 1446, Kalloni, Lesbos



To Andreolo, 13 March 1446, Mytilene, Lesbos



To Andreolo, 8 April 1446, Foglia Nuova 20 April to August 1446: Manisa, Foglia Nuova, Galata/Pera



To Andreolo, 20 April 1446, Manisa



To Andreolo, 11 May 1446, Foglia Nuova



To Franzesco di Drapieri, 15 August 1446, Galata/Pera



To Baldassare Maruffo, after 21 August 1446, ?Galata/Pera 13 February to 18 May 1447: Chios and Environs



To Andreolo, 13 February 1447, Foglia Nuova



To Andreolo, 20 February 1447, Foglia Nuova



To Andreolo, 22 February 1447, Foglia Nuova



To Andreolo, 16 April 1447, Homerica, Chios



To Cyriac in Chios from Domenico Grimani, 20 May 1447, Rhodes



To Andreolo, 28 May 1447, Chios 30 July 1447 to October 1448: The Peloponnesus, Epirus Diary V: Travels in the Peloponnesus, 30 July 1447 to 17 April 1448



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