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On discovery

On discovery
(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 6)

  • ISBN: 9780674007895
  • Editorial: Harvard University Press
  • Lugar de la edición: Cambridge (MSS). Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
  • Colección: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
  • Encuadernación: Cartoné
  • Medidas: 22 cm
  • Nº Pág.: 752
  • Idiomas: Inglés

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Resumen

The Italian humanist Polydore Vergil (1470–1555) was born in Urbino but spent most of his life in early Tudor England. His most popular work, On Discovery (De inventoribus rerum, 1499), was the first comprehensive account of discoveries and inventions written since antiquity. Thirty Latin editions of this work were published in Polydore’s lifetime, and by the eighteenth century more than a hundred editions had appeared in eight languages, including Russian. On Discovery became a key reference for anyone who wanted to know about “firsts” in theology, philosophy, science, technology, literature, language, law, material culture, and other fields. Polydore took his information from dozens of Greek, Roman, biblical, and Patristic authorities. His main point was to show that many Greek and Roman claims for discovery were false and that ancient Jews or other Asian peoples had priority.

Edited and translated by Brian P. Copenhaver.

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