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oapen-20.500.12657-562352022-06-02T03:24:05Z Chapter Poggio and Other Book Hunters Haig Gaisser, Julia book hunting libraries Phyllis Gordan Dante Boccaccio Niccoló Niccoli Cicero Catullus Apuleius Quintilian Lucretius Seeking out rare and precious texts, or book hunting, was a favorite pursuit of the Renaissance humanists, but the activity had been practiced with enthusiasm (and often guile) since antiquity. This paper discusses the phenomenon over time, looking at representative book hunters from Aulus Gellius (second century CE) to Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), who was probably the most famous book hunter of them all. I will consider the discoveries of Catullus, Cicero’s Letters to Atticus, and Apuleius as well as several of the most famous finds of Poggio himself, emhasizing in each case the circumstances and method of discovery, the importance of the find, and the fate of the discovered book. The paper will close with a brief epilogue on some modern book hunters. 2022-06-01T12:17:00Z 2022-06-01T12:17:00Z 2020 chapter ONIX_20220601_9788864539683_418 2704-6230 9788864539683 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/56235 eng Atti application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 14338.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/9788864539683_13 Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-6453-968-3.13 10.36253/978-88-6453-968-3.13 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9788864539683 38 16 Florence open access
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Seeking out rare and precious texts, or book hunting, was a favorite pursuit of the Renaissance humanists, but the activity had been practiced with enthusiasm (and often guile) since antiquity. This paper discusses the phenomenon over time, looking at representative book hunters from Aulus Gellius (second century CE) to Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), who was probably the most famous book hunter of them all. I will consider the discoveries of Catullus, Cicero’s Letters to Atticus, and Apuleius as well as several of the most famous finds of Poggio himself, emhasizing in each case the circumstances and method of discovery, the importance of the find, and the fate of the discovered book. The paper will close with a brief epilogue on some modern book hunters.
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