Selected Bibliography

The Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe (Panizzi Lectures) (2011)
What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe (2007)
Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation (2002)
Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance (2002)
Cardano’s Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer (2000)
The Footnote: A Curious History (1997)
Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship. Vol II: Historical Chronology (1993)
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery (1992)
Defenders of the Text : Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450-1800 (1991)
The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe (1990)
Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship (1990)
From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in 15th and 6th-Century Europe (1987)
Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship (1983)

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Anthony Grafton

Anthony Grafton teaches European history at Princeton.

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Authors and Climbers · 5 October 1995
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Frets and Knots · 4 November 1993
- A History of Cambridge University Press. Vol. I: Printing and the Book Trade in Cambridge, 1534-1698 by David McKitterick
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