Rome reborn
Subtitle: the Vatican Library and Renaissance culture
By: edited by Anthony Grafton.
Contributors: Grafton, Anthony.; Library of Congress.
Publisher: Library of Congress; Yale University Press in association with the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Washington; New Haven; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Biblioteca apostolica vaticana -- Exhibitions; Renaissance -- Exhibitions; Renaissance -- Italy -- Rome -- Exhibitions; Rome (Italy) -- Civilization -- Exhibitions
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition to be held at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Jan. 6-Apr. 30, 1993.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 305-312.
Table of contents: title: The Vatican and its library / Anthony Grafton; title: The popes and humanism / James Hankins; title: The ancient city restored : archaeology, ecclesiastical history, and Egyptology / Anthony Grafton; title: The recovery of the exact sciences of antiquity : mathematics, astronomy, geography / N.M. Swerdlow; title: Life sciences and medicine in the Renaissance world / Nancy G. Siraisi; title: Music and the Renaissance papacy : the papal choir and the fondo Cappella Sistina / Richard Sherr; title: Eastern churches and western scholarship / Alastair Hamilton; title: Paper obelisks : East Asia in the Vatican vaults / Howard L. Goodman.