Peiresc’s Mediterranean World

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Peiresc’s Mediterranean World is written by Peter N. Miller and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674425774 (ISBN 10) and 9780674425774 (ISBN 13).

Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc was the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. His insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of letters that traveled the Mediterranean, seeking knowledge. Mining his 70,000-page archive, Peter N. Miller recovers a lost Mediterranean world of the early seventeenth century.