Cyriac of Ancona: Later Travels (I Tatti Renaissance Library) (Hardback)(English / Latin)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Cyriac of Ancona: Later Travels The letters and diaries from 1443 to 1449 of Cyriac of Ancona, one of the first scholars to study the physical remains of the ancient world in person. This is the period of his final voyages, which took him from Italy to the Greek mainland, the Aegean islands, Constantinople and Crete.
Full description- Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 17 February 2004
- Format: Hardback 384 pages
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- Categories: Prose: Non-fiction | Classics | European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700 | Classical Greek & Roman Archaeology
- ISBN 13: 9780674007581 ISBN 10: 0674007581
- Sales rank: 525,564
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Full description for Cyriac of Ancona: Later Travels
Early renaissance humanists discovered the culture of ancient Greece and Rome mostly through the study of classical manuscripts. Cyriad 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 their preservation, recognizing that archaeological evidence was an irreplaceable complement to the written word. This volume presents letters and diaries from 1443 to 1449, the period of his final voyages, which took him from Italy to the eastern shore of the Adriatic, the Greek mainland, the Aegean islans, Anatolia and Thrace, Mount Athos, Constantinople, the Cyclades and Crete. Cyriac's accounts of his travels, with their commentary reflecting his wide-ranging antiquarian, political, religious and commercial interests, provide a fascinating record of the encounter of the Renaissance world with the legacy of classical antiquity. The Latin texts assembled for this edition have been newly edited and the edition is enhanced with reproductions of Cyriac's sketches and a map of his travels.
