Marina Belozerskaya

To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How Cyriacus of Anconamerchant, spy, and amateur classicisttraveled 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 himnot 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 landsunlike his more scholarly peers with their handsome libraries and wealthy patrons, who benefited greatly from the discoveries communicated in his widely distributed letters and drawings. Having seen firsthand the destruction of the world's cultural heritage, Cyriacus resolved to preserve it for future generations. To do so he would spy on the Ottomans, court popes and emperors, and even organize a crusade.Some images in the ebook are not displayed owing to permissions issues.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393072846
• Artikelnr.: 59588843

Autorenporträt

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.