Title: A man kneeling and placing a laurel branch upon a pile of burning books
Object type: Print
Date: ca. 1515–27
Artist:  Marco Dente 
Artist bio: Italian, Ravenna, active by 1515–died 1527 Rome
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 2 1/2 × 3 7/16 in. (6.3 × 8.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Books, term: Men, term: Fire