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

by Marina Belozerskaya

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393065545
• ISBN13: 9780393065541
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.6"