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Pliny the Elder : themes and contexts
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ISBN: 9789004202344 900420234X Year: 2011 Volume: 329 Publisher: Leiden : Boston : Brill,

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Roberti Crikeladensis Deflorio Naturalis historie Plinii Secundi
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ISSN: 01709089 ISBN: 390677029X 9783906770291 Year: 2002 Volume: 36 Publisher: Bern [etc.] Peter Lang

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La pharmacopée végétale d'Occident dans l'oeuvre de Pline l'Ancien
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ISBN: 9782870312933 2870312938 Year: 2014 Publisher: Bruxelles Latomus


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A guide to the geography of Pliny the Elder
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ISBN: 9781108693660 9781108481809 9781108741422 1108481809 1108595928 1108617301 1108693660 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This is the first thorough English commentary on the geographical books of Pliny the Elder, written in the AD 70s. Pliny's account is the longest in Latin, and represents the geographical knowledge of that era, when the Roman Empire was the dominant force in the Mediterranean world. The work serves both cultural and ideological functions: much of it is topographical, but it also demonstrates the political need to express a geographical basis for the importance of the Roman state. In five books, Pliny covers the entire world as it was known in his era and includes some of the first information on the extremities of the inhabited region, including Scandinavia and the Baltic, eastern Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. The commentary provides a detailed analysis of all the points Pliny raises: his sources, toponyms, and understanding of the place of the earth in the cosmos.


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Pliny the Elder and the emergence of renaissance architecture
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ISBN: 9781107079861 9781139942249 9781107439184 1107079861 1139942247 1316419789 1316420248 1316420930 1316421392 1316420019 1107439183 9781316421390 1316421163 9781316421161 9781316420935 9781316420249 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Cambridge University Press

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"The Naturalis historia" by Pliny the Elder provided Renaissance scholars, artists and architects with details of ancient architectural practice and long-lost architectural wonders--material that was often unavailable elsewhere in classical literature. Pliny's descriptions frequently included the dimensions of these buildings, as well as details of their unusual construction materials and ornament. This book describes, for the first time, how the passages were interpreted from around 1430 to 1580, that is, from Alberti to Palladio. Chapters are arranged chronologically within three interrelated sections--antiquarianism; architectural writings; drawings and built monuments--thereby making it possible for the reader to follow the changing attitudes to Pliny over the period. The resulting study establishes the Naturalis historia as the single most important literary source after Vitruvius's "De architectura".


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Pliny and the artistic culture of the Italian Renaissance : the legacy of the Natural History
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ISBN: 9780300186031 0300186037 Year: 2013 Publisher: New Haven Yale university press

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Pliny's Natural History (AD 77-79) served as an indispensable guide to and exemplar of the ideals of art for Renaissance artists, patrons, and theorists. Bearing the imprimatur of antiquity, the Natural History gave permission to do art on a grand scale, to value it, and to see it as an incomparable source of prestige and pleasure. In Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance, Sarah Blake McHam surveys Pliny's influence, from Petrarch, the first figure to recognize Pliny's relevance to understanding the history of Greek art and its reception by the Romans, to Vasari and late 16th-century theorists. McHam charts the historiography of Latin and Italian manuscripts and early printed copies of the Natural History to trace the dissemination of its contents to artists from Donatello and Ghiberti to Michelangelo and Titian. Meanwhile, benefactors commissioned works intended to emulate the prototypes Pliny described, aligning themselves with the great patrons of antiquity. This is a richly illustrated, comprehensive reference work of social history, myth making, iconography, theory, and criticism.


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Estructura semantica de los adjetivos de color en los tratadistas latinos de agricultura y parte de la enciclopedia de Plinio
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ISBN: 8447201880 9788447201884 Year: 1994 Publisher: Sevilla Universidad de Sevilla. Secretariado de publicaciones

Roman nature : the thought of Pliny the Elder
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ISBN: 0198147260 9780198147268 Year: 1992 Volume: *4 Publisher: Oxford [England] : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,

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"Pliny's Natural History has too often been regarded as simply a quarry for quaint stories--a view which has tended to overshadow its overall structure and purpose. In this book, Dr. Beagon redresses the balance and illuminates the Natural History as the work of an author with an identifiable mode of thinking and a coherent attitude towards his clearly-stated theme, Nature. Taking its cue from Pliny, the book examines his cosmology and in particular his portrayal of the relationship between nature and the creation he considered her greatest, Man. Author and work are also placed in their wider literary and historical context. Pliny himself emerges no longer as a faceless compiler but as a character with a valuable contribution to make to an understanding of intellectual attitudes in the first century AD. A more typical Roman than most of the intellectual authors studied today, he can offer a much more accurate picture of the Roman in his natural setting."--BOOK JACKET.

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