Person who studies classics, the culture of (mainly) Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome

Joseph Scaliger : a study in the history of classical scholarship / Anthony Grafton.

x, 413 pages, xxvi pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Willibald Pirckheimer, Dürers Freund : im Spiegel seines Lebens, seiner Werke und seiner Umwelt / Willehad Paul Eckert, Christoph von Imhoff ; mit einem Beitrag über Caritas Pirckheimer, Ordensfrau und Humanistin / von Adam Wienand.

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Joseph Scaliger : a study in the history of classical scholarship / Anthony Grafton.

Willibald Pirckheimer, Dürers Freund : im Spiegel seines Lebens, seiner Werke und seiner Umwelt / Willehad Paul Eckert, Christoph von Imhoff ; mit einem Beitrag über Caritas Pirckheimer, Ordensfrau und Humanistin / von Adam Wienand.