To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology
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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 him--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 lands--unlike his more scholarly peers...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0393065545
ISBN13:9780393065541
Release Date:August 2009
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 5.9" x 8.6"
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