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

ISBN-13: 9780393349627 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 322 str.

Marina Belozerskaya

Opis

As an international merchant, Cyriacus of Ancona was accustomed to the perils of travel in foreign lands--unlike 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.