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

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

Spatmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation / Studies in the La

Catherine Atkinson

325 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative medium-paced

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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 sciences, crafts and social institutions is a ...

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