Poggio and Other Book Hunters

Seeking out rare and precious texts, or book hunting, was a favorite pursuit of the Renaissance humanists, but the activity had been practiced with enthusiasm (and often guile) since antiquity. This paper discusses the phenomenon over time, looking at representative book hunters from Aulus Gellius (...

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Main Author: Julia Haig Gaisser (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Firenze University Press 2020
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