Vita Viri Clarissimi Et Famosissimi Kyriaci Anconitani: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 86, Part 4)

by Francesco Scalamonti and Charles Mitchell

This is a print on demand Publication. Ciriaco di Filippo de' Pizzicolli (b. 1391) was the most prolific recorder of Greek & Roman antiquities, particularly inscriptions, in the 15th cent.; he is entitled to be called the founding father of modern classical archaeology. Of his early life our knowledge rests mostly on the materials for a "Vita" put together by his friend Francesco Scalamonti, which largely reproduces Ciriaco's own records & carries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871698641
• ISBN13: 9780871698643
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 246 Pages