Peirescs Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century

by Peter N. Miller

Book Overview

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) was, during his lifetime, one of Europe's most famous men. A friend of Pope Urban VIII and Galileo, of Peter-Paul Rubens and Hugo Grotius, of Tommaso Campanella and Marin Mersenne, Peiresc played an important role in the intellectual culture of his time. This book is the first study in English of this extraordinary man, as well as a vivid portrait of his whole circle. Looking through the lens of Peiresc's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300082525
• ISBN13: 9780300082524
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"