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Rome reborn : the Vatican Library and Renaissance culture / edited by Anthony Grafton.

Contributor(s): Grafton, Anthony | Library of Congress
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington : Library of Congress ; New Haven : Yale University Press in association with the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City, [1993]Copyright date: ©1993Description: xxvi, 323 pages : color illustrations, color facsimiles, portraits ; 31 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0300054424Subject(s): Biblioteca apostolica vaticana -- Exhibitions | Renaissance -- Exhibitions | Renaissance -- Italy -- Rome -- Exhibitions | Rome (Italy) -- Civilization -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 027.0945634 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-312) and index.
Contents:
The Vatican and its library / Anthony Grafton -- The popes and humanism / James Hankins -- The ancient city restored : archaeology, ecclesiastical history, and Egyptology / Anthony Grafton -- The recovery of the exact sciences of antiquity : mathematics, astronomy, geography / N.M. Swerdlow -- Life sciences and medicine in the Renaissance world / Nancy G. Siraisi -- Music and the Renaissance papacy : the papal choir and the fondo Cappella Sistina / Richard Sherr -- Eastern churches and western scholarship / Alastair Hamilton -- Paper obelisks : East Asia in the Vatican vaults / Howard L. Goodman.

Catalog of an exhibition to be held at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Jan. 6-Apr. 30, 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-312) and index.

The Vatican and its library / Anthony Grafton -- The popes and humanism / James Hankins -- The ancient city restored : archaeology, ecclesiastical history, and Egyptology / Anthony Grafton -- The recovery of the exact sciences of antiquity : mathematics, astronomy, geography / N.M. Swerdlow -- Life sciences and medicine in the Renaissance world / Nancy G. Siraisi -- Music and the Renaissance papacy : the papal choir and the fondo Cappella Sistina / Richard Sherr -- Eastern churches and western scholarship / Alastair Hamilton -- Paper obelisks : East Asia in the Vatican vaults / Howard L. Goodman.

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