Locum, Lacum, Lucum
Anthony Grafton: The Emperor of Things, 13 September 2018
Pietro Bembo and the Intellectual Pleasures of a Renaissance Writer and Art Collector
by Susan Nalezyty.
Yale, 277 pp., £50, May 2017,978 0 300 21919 7 Show More
by Susan Nalezyty.
Yale, 277 pp., £50, May 2017,
Pietro Bembo on Etna: The Ascent of a Venetian Humanist
by Gareth Williams.
Oxford, 440 pp., £46.49, August 2017,978 0 19 027229 6 Show More
by Gareth Williams.
Oxford, 440 pp., £46.49, August 2017,
“... in which he cultivated rare herbs, ten years before the university established its Orto Botanico. Susan Nalezyty treats Bembo’s collection in comprehensive detail, and promises to tell us not only what it contained, but also what it meant to him. Williams follows him to Sicily and up Etna. He records every step, not only of Bembo’s voyages, but of ... ”