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<p>How Cyriacus of Ancona&mdash;merchant, spy, and amateur classicist&mdash;traveled the world, fighting to save ancient monuments for posterity.</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p><P>Cyriacus Pizzecolli of Ancona was the first to travel solely to discover, observe and analyze historic monuments and, Belozerskaya convincingly argues in this charming and intriguing book, a key figure in the birth of archeology. A clerk in the bustling Renaissance port city, Pizzecolli's business trips took him to Greece and Asia Minor. He was unrelentingly curious and restless and while fascination with classical texts was widespread in the mid-15th century, few investigated the ancient physical remains. Pizzecolli educated himself in classical civilization in order to understand and preserve thousands of artifacts from ancient Greece and Rome, his true profession being, according to Cyriacus himself, to wake the dead of antiquity. Art historian Belozerskaya (<I>The Medici Giraffe</I>) writes with verve and aplomb, transporting us to 15th-century Rome, Constantinople, Florence, Greece and its islands, where he made sketches of antiquities later used by Raphael and da Vinci. Belozerskaya has written a

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Author

Belozerskaya, Marina, 1966-

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393065541

Category

history

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

4 / 5 (32 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14