Main entry:

Ciriaco, d'Ancona, 1391-1452, author.

Title & Author:

Later travels / Cyriac of Ancona ; edited and translated by Edward W. Bodnar with Clive Foss.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.

Description:

xxii, 459 pages, 10 pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Series:

The I Tatti Renaissance library ; 10

Notes:
Fifty-three letters, brief diary excerpts, and five extensive fragments of travel diaries.
Includes bibliographical references (page 439) and index.
December 1443 to 4 May 1444: Ascoli Piceno to Foglia Nuova -- 22 May to 21 July 1444: Adrianople and Constantinople -- 25 July 1444 to 25 February 1445: the Propontis and Northern Aegean -- April to December 1445: the Cyclades and Crete -- 13 January to 8 April 1446: Chios, Miletus, Lesbos, Foglia Nuova -- 20 April to August 1446: Manisa, Foglia Nuova, Galata/Pera -- 13 February to 18 May 1447: Chios and environs -- 30 July 1447 to October 1448: the Peloponnesus, Epirus -- 24 June to 8 July 1449: return to Italy.
Also issued online.
Texts in Latin with English translations on facing pages; introduction and notes in English.

Summary:

"Cyriac of Ancona (Ciriaco de'Pizzecolli, 1391-1452), a merchant and diplomat as well as a scholar, was among the first to study the physical remains of the ancient world in person and for that reason is sometimes regarded as the father of classical archaeology. His travel diaries and letters are filled with descriptions of classical sites, drawings of buildings and statues, and copies of hundreds of Latin and Greek inscriptions. Cyriac came to see it as his calling to record the current state of the remains of antiquity and to lobby with local authorities for their preservation, recognizing that archaeological evidence was an irreplaceable complement to the written record." "This volume presents letters and diaries from 1443 to 1449, the period of his final voyages, which took him from Italy to the eastern shore of the Adriatic, the Greek mainland, the Aegean islands, Anatolia and Thrace, Mount Athos, Constantinople, the Cyclades, and Crete. Cyriac's accounts of his travels, with their commentary reflecting his wide-ranging antiquarian, political, religious, and commercial interests, provide a fascinating record of the encounter of the Renaissance world with the legacy of classical antiquity. The Latin texts assembled for this edition have been newly edited and most of them appear here for the first time in English. The edition is enhanced with reproductions of Cyriac's sketches and a map of his travels."--Jacket.

Resources:
Rezension

ISBN:

0674007581 (alk. paper)
9780674007581 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Ciriaco, d'Ancona, 1391-1452 Correspondence.
Ciriaco, d'Ancona, 1391-1452 Travel.
Ciriaco, d'Ancona, 1391-1452.
Cyriacus Anconitanus 1391-1452
Ciriaco D'Ancona, 1391-1452.
Ciriaco d'Ancona 1391-1452 Itinerarium.
Ciriaco, d'Ancona, ca. 1391-ca. 1450.
Archaeologists Italy Correspondence.
Classical antiquities Early works to 1800.
Voyages and travels Early works to 1800.
Classicists Italy Correspondence.
Archéologues Italie Correspondance.
Antiquités gréco-romaines Ouvrages avant 1800.
Voyages Ouvrages avant 1800.
Spécialistes de lettres classiques Italie Correspondance.
15.34 classical archaeology.
18.48 Neo-Latin literature.
Archaeologists.
Classical antiquities.
Classicists.
Travel.
Voyages and travels.
Reiseliteratur
Archeologische vindplaatsen.
Antiguidade clássica.
Epistolografia.
Viagens e explorações.
Classicists Italy 15th century.
Inscriptions, Greek Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey)
Inscriptions, Latin Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey)
Italy.
Mittelmeerraum
Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) Historiography.
Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) Description and travel 15th century.

Form/genre:

Latin letters, Medieval and modern Translations into English.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Travel literature.
letters (correspondence)
personal correspondence.
Early works.
Personal correspondence.
Reisbeschrijvingen (vorm)
Brieven (vorm)
Dagboeken (vorm)
Vertalingen (vorm)
Correspondance privée.

Host item:

The I Tatti Renaissance Library Series.

Added entries:

Bodnar, Edward W., editor, translator.
Foss, Clive, translator.
Ciriaco, d'Ancona, 1391-1452. Works. Selections. English. (Bodnar & Foss)
Ciriaco, d'Ancona, 1391-1452. Works. Selections. Latin (Bodnar)
I Tatti Renaissance library ; 10.

Cyriac of Ancona, Later travels

Holdings:

Location: Library main 240512
Call No.: NC46.C578.A35 2003
Status: Available