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

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

Marina Belozerskaya

308 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative slow-paced

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How Cyriacus of Ancona—merchant, spy, and amateur classicist—traveled the world, fighting to save ancient monuments for posterity.At the beginning of the fifteenth century, a young Italian bookkeeper fell under the spell of the classical past. Des...

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