Chapter Poggio and Other Book Hunters
Seeking out rare and precious texts, or book hunting, was a favorite pursuit of the Renaissance humanists, but the activity had been practiced with enthusiasm (and often guile) since antiquity. This paper discusses the phenomenon over time, looking at representative book hunters from Aulus Gellius (...
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| description | Seeking out rare and precious texts, or book hunting, was a favorite pursuit of the Renaissance humanists, but the activity had been practiced with enthusiasm (and often guile) since antiquity. This paper discusses the phenomenon over time, looking at representative book hunters from Aulus Gellius (second century CE) to Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), who was probably the most famous book hunter of them all. I will consider the discoveries of Catullus, Cicero’s Letters to Atticus, and Apuleius as well as several of the most famous finds of Poggio himself, emhasizing in each case the circumstances and method of discovery, the importance of the find, and the fate of the discovered book. The paper will close with a brief epilogue on some modern book hunters. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-820952022-06-02T04:03:50Z Chapter Poggio and Other Book Hunters Haig Gaisser, Julia book hunting libraries Phyllis Gordan Dante Boccaccio Niccoló Niccoli Cicero Catullus Apuleius Quintilian Lucretius Seeking out rare and precious texts, or book hunting, was a favorite pursuit of the Renaissance humanists, but the activity had been practiced with enthusiasm (and often guile) since antiquity. This paper discusses the phenomenon over time, looking at representative book hunters from Aulus Gellius (second century CE) to Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), who was probably the most famous book hunter of them all. I will consider the discoveries of Catullus, Cicero’s Letters to Atticus, and Apuleius as well as several of the most famous finds of Poggio himself, emhasizing in each case the circumstances and method of discovery, the importance of the find, and the fate of the discovered book. The paper will close with a brief epilogue on some modern book hunters. 2022-06-02T04:03:49Z 2022-06-02T04:03:49Z 2022-06-01T12:17:00Z 2020 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788864539683_418 2704-6230 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56235 9788864539683 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/82095 eng Atti open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/56235/1/14338.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-6453-968-3.13 10.36253/978-88-6453-968-3.13 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9788864539683 16 Florence open access |
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