The Art of Discovery: Digging Into the Past in Renaissance Europe

by Maren Elisabeth Schwab and Anthony Grafton

Book Overview

A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledge

In the early fifteenth century, a casket containing the remains of the Roman historian Livy was unearthed at a Benedictine abbey in Padua. The find was greeted with the same enthusiasm as the bones of a Christian saint, and established a pattern that antiquarians would follow for centuries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691237166
• ISBN13: 9780691237169
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"