Search Results: Italy Illuminated, Volume 1 by Biondo Flavio

Harvard University Press, 2005. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. clean, unmarked copy.

Harvard University Press, 2005 8vo (21 cm), XXVII, 490 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (bookplate). "Biondo Flavio (1392-1463), humanist and historian, was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance recovery of classical antiquity. While serving a number of the Renaissance popes, he inaugurated an extraordinary program of research into the history, institutions, cultural life, and physical remains of the ancient Roman empire. The Italia Illustrata (1453), which appears here for the first time in English, is a topographical work describing Italy region by region. Its aim is to explore the Roman roots of the Renaissance world. As such, it is the quintessential work of Renaissance antiquarianism. This is the first edition of the Latin text since 1559." (from the publisher's description)

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.