Rome reborn : the Vatican Library and Renaissance culture /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Library of Congress
Other Authors:	Grafton, Anthony
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington : Library of Congress, 1993.
Subjects:	Renaissance > Exhibitions. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana > Exhibitions. Renaissance > Italy > Rome > Exhibitions. Rome (Italy) > Civilization > Exhibitions.

Table of 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.