Subject: Renaissance--Italy--Rome--Exhibitions

Rome reborn : the Vatican Library and Renaissance culture
AuthorGrafton, AnthonyLibrary of Congress
PlaceWashington, D.C.
PublisherLibrary of Congress
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook (Exhibition catalog)
Series
ShelfDirector's Office
Call NumberCB361.R66 1993
Descriptionxxvi, 323 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
NoteRome reborn : the Vatican Library and Renaissance culture / edited by Anthony Grafton.
Library of Congress, in association with Vatican City : Biblioteca apostolica vaticana.
Catalog of an exhibition to be held at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Jan. 6-Apr. 30, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-312) and index.
Contents: 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.

***Graphic resource: Items by Verbiest, Couplet, Manchurian version of Verbiest's abridgement of Ricci's Tianzhu shiyi, Varo's Arte de la lengua mandarina, Aleni's Tianzhu jiangsheng chuxiang jingjie, Schall von Bell's Jianjie congxing tu cosmological map, Ricci's Hungai tongxian tushuo, De Ursis Taixi shuifa, and many other beautiful color reproductions.

ISBN0844407674
LCCN92-33013