Rome reborn : the Vatican Library and Renaissance culture / edited by Anthony Grafton.
Contributor(s): Grafton, Anthony
| Library of Congress | Biblioteca apostolica vaticana.
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BookPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1993Description: xxvi, 323 p. : ill., facsims. ; 31 cm.ISBN: 0300054424.Subject(s): Biblioteca apostolica vaticana -- Exhibitions | Renaissance -- Italy -- Rome -- Exhibitions | Libraries -- Vatican City | Rome (Italy) -- Civilization -- Exhibitions"Published in association with the Library of Congress and the Vatican Library."
Accompanies an exhibition at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Jan. 6-Apr. 30, 1993.
Includes 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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