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Peiresc's Europe : learning and virtue in the seventeenth century

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Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) was, during his lifetime, one of Europe's most famous men.

This book is the first in English to portray this extraordinary man as well as his whole circle, including Pope Urban VIII, Galileo, Peter-Paul Rubens, and Hugo Grotius, and many others.

Looking through the lens of Peiresc's life, Peter N.

Miller brings into focus the entire early seventeenth-century world of learning.

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Yale University Press
0300082525 / 9780300082524
Hardback
940.22
11/10/2000
United States
English
256p. : ill.
24 cm
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