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Volume 6 | Monograph | Atlas of Renaissance Antiquarianism

Atlas of Renaissance Antiquarianism

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Abstract
Renaissance antiquarianism can be defined as a cultural phenomenon that aims to interpret the past by cross-referencing heterogeneous sources accumulated and collected over time. This entailed the use of new investigative techniques which involved combining literary sources and material findings to provide a reliable foundation for the idea of history. Atlas of Renaissance Antiquarianism, moving along different lines of theoretical and practical conceptualisation, declines the matters according to a plethora of different disciplines: philology, iconology, numismatics, epigraphy, chronology, conviviality, art, and fashion. The purpose of this manyfold investigation is to demonstrate how the antiquarian approach – that based the growth of thought on documented sources and empirical evidence – represented a methodological perspective capable to influence the way the past was viewed through a critical analysis of sources.

Keywords Collecting • Renaissance • Epistolography • Antiquarianism • Classical Tradition

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-538-4 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-538-4 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-539-1 | Number of pages 426 | Dimensions 16x23cm | Published Feb. 2, 2022 | Language en

Copyright © 2022 Damiano Acciarino. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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