Series | Lexis Supplements
Volume 6 | Monograph | Atlas of Renaissance Antiquarianism
Atlas of Renaissance Antiquarianism
open access | peer reviewed- Damiano Acciarino - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
Aims & Scope
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 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-539-1 | e-ISSN 978-88-6969-538-4 | Number of pages 426 | Dimensions 16x23cm | Published Feb. 2, 2022 | Language en
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