e-branch	Login My List - 0 Help
	Home   My Account/Renew Loans   Community Info   KidSearch   New Catalogue!

Search Advanced By Format By Number My Searches Can't Find it? Find Magazine Articles & more Problems?

Search:  Title Starts with...Title Keyword(s)Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)Subject Starts with...Subject Keyword(s)Series Starts with...Series Keyword(s)Anyword/AnywhereList Name Keyword(s)       Refine Search     > You're searching: Halifax Public Libraries

Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Belozerskaya, Marina, 1966-     Subjects     Ciriaco, d'Ancona, 1391-1452.     Archaeology -- History.     Archaeologists -- Italy -- Biography.     Classicists -- Italy -- Biography.     Travelers -- Mediterranean Region -- Biography.     Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Belozerskaya, Marina, 1966-       by title:      To wake the dead : a...       by call number:      930.1 B452t     Search the Web     Belozerskaya, Marina, 1966-     Ciriaco, d'Ancona, 1391-1452.     Archaeology -- History.     Archaeologists -- Italy -- Biography.     Classicists -- Italy -- Biography.     Travelers -- Mediterranean Region -- Biography.     Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559.       MARC Display

To wake the dead : a Renaissance merchant and the birth of archaeology / Marina Belozerskaya. by Belozerskaya, Marina, 1966- W.W. Norton & Co., c2009. Call #: 930.1 B452t Subjects Ciriaco, d'Ancona, 1391-1452.   Archaeology -- History.   Archaeologists -- Italy -- Biography.   Classicists -- Italy -- Biography.   Travelers -- Mediterranean Region -- Biography.   Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559. ISBN:  9780393065541 (hardcover) 0393065545 (hardcover) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  308 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  At the beginning of the fifteenth century, a young Italian bookkeeper fell under the spell of the classical past. Despite his limited education, the Greeks and Romans seemed to speak directly to him--not from books but from the physical ruins and inscriptions that lay neglected around the shores of the Mediterranean. As an international merchant, Cyriacus of Ancona was accustomed to the perils of travel in foreign lands--unlike his more scholarly peers with their handsome libraries and wealthy patrons, who benefited greatly from the discoveries communicated in his widely distributed letters and drawings. Having seen firsthand the destruction of the world's cultural heritage, Cyriacus resolved to preserve it for future generations. To do so he would spy on the Ottomans, court popes and emperors, and even organize a crusade. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 930.1 B452t Adult books Item being held Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.