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 & carries his biography down to 1435. This "Vita" survives in a single manuscript published in 1792. The editors have re-edited Scalamonti's "Vita" from the original mss. with a translation. Also includes an intro. to the text & its previous pub., its authorship, its sources, & its likely date of composition. Concludes with a chronology of the events narrated in the "Vita.