On Discovery [Latin]

by Polydore Vergil and Brian P. Copenhaver

The Italian humanist Polydore Vergil (1470-1555) was born in Urbino but spent most of his life in early Tudor England. His most popular work, On Discovery (De inventoribus rerum, 1499), was the first comprehensive account of discoveries and inventions written since antiquity. Thirty Latin editions of this work were published in Polydore's lifetime, and by the eighteenth century more than a hundred editions had appeared in eight languages,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Latin
• ISBN: 0674007891
• ISBN13: 9780674007895
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.6" x 8.3"