To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology by Marina Belozerskaya

To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology

Marina Belozerskaya

320 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative slow-paced
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As an international merchant, Cyriacus of Ancona was accustomed to the perils of travel in foreign lands--unlike his more scholarly peers with their handsome libraries and wealthy patrons, who benefited greatly from the discoveries communicated in...

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