Vita Viri Clarissimi Et Famosissimi Kyriaci Anconitani: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 86, Part 4) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780871698643)

This is a print on demand Publication. Ciriaco di Filippo de' Pizzicolli (b. 1391) was the most prolific recorder of Greek & Roman antiquities, particularly inscriptions, in the 15th cent.; he is entitled to be called the founding father of modern classical archaeology. Of his early life our knowledge rests mostly on the materials for a "Vita" put together by his friend Francesco Scalamonti, which largely reproduces Ciriaco's own records & carries his biography down to 1435. This "Vita" survives in a single manuscript published in 1792. The editors have re-edited Scalamonti's "Vita" from the original mss. with a translation. Also includes an intro. to the text & its previous pub., its authorship, its sources, & its likely date of composition. Concludes with a chronology of the events narrated in the "Vita."

Author: Francesco Scalamonti
ISBN-10: 0871698641
ISBN-13: 9780871698643
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1996
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.63d