Cristoforo Buondelmonti : Greek Antiquities in Florentine Humanism
Part of : The Historical Review ; Vol.9, No.1, 2012, pages 63-76
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With his Descriptio insulae Cretae and Liber insularum Arcipelagi, Cristoforo Buondelmonti initiated the isolario tradition in the early fifteenth century. Both works were inspired by his urge to recover Greek and Roman antiquity through the “restoration” of ancient geography and the study of ancient material remains. The article aims to contextualize Buondelmonti’s antiquarian surveys and erudite compilation methods, as expressions of the efforts of early fifteenth-century Florentine Humanism to reassess the ancient heritage of Crete and the Greek islands.
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856:https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/historicalReview/article/view/4070, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/hr.289
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