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Hardcover Peiresc's Mediterranean World Book

ISBN: 0674744063

ISBN13: 9780674744066

Peiresc's Mediterranean World

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Antiquarian, lawyer, and cat lover Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) was a "prince" of the Republic of Letters and the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. From Peiresc's study in Aix-en-Provence, his insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of letters that traveled the Mediterranean, seeking knowledge of matters mundane and exotic-travel times and insurance premiums, rare manuscripts and objects...

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