Peiresc's Mediterranean World |
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| Author:
| Miller, Peter N. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-74406-6 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2015 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $109.00 |
Book Description:
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Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc was the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. His insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of letters that traveled the Mediterranean, seeking knowledge. Mining his 70,000-page archive, Peter N. Miller recovers a lost Mediterranean world of the early seventeenth century.
Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc was the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. His insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of letters that traveled the Mediterranean, seeking knowledge. Mining his 70,000-page archive, Peter N. Miller recovers a lost Mediterranean world of the early seventeenth century.