Author: Robert Charles Sands
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Historical notice of Hernan Cortes, conqueror of Mexico. Domestic literature, Isaac; a type of the Redeemer. The Caio-Gracco of Monti. The garden of Venus. Yamoyden; a tale of the wars of King Philip
Author: Robert Charles Sands
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Cardinal
Author: James Shirley
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719016257
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719016257
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1982111402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón sailed with his father Christopher Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended in disaster, bloody mutiny, and shipwreck. After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library that would collect everything ever printed: a vast holding organized by summaries and catalogues; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe. Hernando traveled extensively and obsessively amassed his collection based on the groundbreaking conviction that a library of universal knowledge should include “all books, in all languages and on all subjects,” even material often dismissed: ballads, erotica, news pamphlets, almanacs, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522, set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection. “Magnificent…a thrill on almost every page” (The New York Times Book Review), The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe’s information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1982111402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón sailed with his father Christopher Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended in disaster, bloody mutiny, and shipwreck. After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library that would collect everything ever printed: a vast holding organized by summaries and catalogues; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe. Hernando traveled extensively and obsessively amassed his collection based on the groundbreaking conviction that a library of universal knowledge should include “all books, in all languages and on all subjects,” even material often dismissed: ballads, erotica, news pamphlets, almanacs, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522, set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection. “Magnificent…a thrill on almost every page” (The New York Times Book Review), The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe’s information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.
The Quest for Certitude in E.M. Forster's Fiction
Author: David Shusterman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
The American Bibliopolist
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Chronicles of the Tombs
Author: Thomas Joseph Pettigrew
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The Speaker
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Epigraphy in the Digital Age
Author: Isabel Velázquez Soriano
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789699886
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This volume presents epigraphic research using digital and computational tools, comparing the outcomes of both well-established and newer projects to consider the most innovative investigative trends. Papers consider open-access databases, SfM Photogrammetry and Digital Image Modelling applied to textual restoration, Linked Open Data, and more.
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789699886
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This volume presents epigraphic research using digital and computational tools, comparing the outcomes of both well-established and newer projects to consider the most innovative investigative trends. Papers consider open-access databases, SfM Photogrammetry and Digital Image Modelling applied to textual restoration, Linked Open Data, and more.
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
Author: American Antiquarian Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library, Etc
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description