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Book/Printed MaterialItaly illuminated Catalog Record Only V. 1. Biondo Flavio (1392-1463), humanist and historian, was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance recovery of classical antiquity. While serving a number of the Renaissance popes, he inaugurated an extraordinary program of research into the history, institutions, cultural life, and physical remains of the ancient Roman empire. The Italia Illustrata (1453), which appears here for the first time in English, is a topographical…- Contributor: Biondo Flavio - White, Jeffrey A.
- Date: 2005