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.
Bryn Mawr College, United States
Titolo del capitolo
Poggio and Other Book Hunters
Autori
Julia Haig Gaisser
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-968-3.13
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2020
Copyright
© 2020 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
Poggio Bracciolini and the Re(dis)covery of Antiquity: Textual and Material Traditions
Sottotitolo del libro
Proceedings of the Symposium Held at Bryn Mawr College on April 8-9, 2016
Curatori
Roberta Ricci
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
220
Anno di pubblicazione
2020
Copyright
© 2020 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-968-3
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-967-6
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-968-3
Collana
Atti
ISSN della collana
2239-3307
e-ISSN della collana
2704-6230