Inventing Inventors in Renaissance Europe: Polydore Vergil's 'de Inventoribus Rerum'

By Catherine Atkinson

Polydore Vergil of Urbino (ca.1470-1555) fired his readers' imagination with his encyclopaedic book On the inventors of all things ( De inventoribus rerum 1499). His account of the manifold origins of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3161491874
• ISBN13: 9783161491870
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Length: 325 Pages