Vita Viri Clarissimi Et Famosissimi Kyriaci Anconitani
Scalamonti, Francesco / Mitchell, Charles / Bodnar, Edward W
This is a print on demand Publication. Ciriaco di Filippo de' Pizzicolli (b. 1391) was the most prolific recorder of Greek & Roman antiquities, particularly inscriptions, in the 15th cent., he is entitled to be called the founding father of modern classical archaeology. Of his early life our knowledge rests mostly on the materials for a "Vita" put together by his friend Francesco Scalamonti, which largely reproduces Ciriaco's own records & car...