Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers (Volume 20) (Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures)
In Commerce with the Classics, Anthony Grafton considers ancient books and Renaissance readers, tracing a scholarly conversation between classical texts and the world that read them. Part of the Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures, this volume offers a focused contribution to the study of books, ideas, and Renaissance intellectual history.
About This Book
Commerce with the Classics examines the connections between ancient books and the readers who encountered them during the Renaissance.
Written by Anthony Grafton, the book presents a study of classical reading and the movement of ideas across historical periods.
As Volume 20 of the Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures, it contributes to scholarship on books, readers, and the Renaissance reception of antiquity.
This work will interest readers of intellectual history, literary history, classical studies, and the history of the book.
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