Anthony Grafton

Anthony Grafton teaches at Princeton.

In the LRB Archive:

• What if it breaks?: Renovating Rome · 5 December 2019

  • Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography and the Culture of Knowledge in Late 16th-Century Rome by Pamela Long

• Locum, Lacum, Lucum: The Emperor of Things · 13 September 2018

  • Pietro Bembo and the Intellectual Pleasures of a Renaissance Writer and Art Collector by Susan Nalezyty
  • Pietro Bembo on Etna: The Ascent of a Venetian Humanist by Gareth Williams

• Invented Antiquities · 27 July 2017

  • Baroque Antiquity: Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe by Victor Plahte Tschudi

• Not Dead Yet: Latin · 8 January 2015

  • Latin: Story of a World Language by Jürgen Leonhardt, translated by Kenneth Kronenberg

• Time Lords: In the Catacombs · 31 July 2014

  • Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs by Paul Koudounaris

• He had fun: Athanasius Kircher · 7 November 2013

  • Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity by Daniel Stolzenberg
  • Exploring the Kingdom of Saturn: Kircher’s Latium and Its Legacy by Harry Evans

• Those Limbs We Admire: Himmler’s Tacitus · 14 July 2011

  • A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’ ‘Germania’ from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich by Christopher Krebs

• Thank you for your letter: Latin · 1 November 2001

  • Latin, or the Empire of a Sign: From the 16th to the 20th Centuries by Françoise Waquet, translated by John Howe

• Diary: Warburg · 1 April 1999

• Botticelli and the Built-in Bed: The Italian Renaissance · 2 April 1998

  • Behind the Picture: Art and Evidence in Italian Renaissance by Martin Kemp

• Born to Network · 22 August 1996

  • The Fortunes of ‘The Courtier’: The European Reception of Castiglione’s ‘Cortegiano’ by Peter Burke

• Authors and Climbers · 5 October 1995

  • Impolite Learning: Conduct and Community in the Republic of Letters, 1680-1750 by Anne Goldgar

• From Norwich to Naples · 28 April 1994

  • The Civilisation of Europe in the Renaissance by John Hale

• 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

• Signs of spring · 10 June 1993

  • The Portrayal of Love: Botticelli’s ‘Primavera’ and Humanist Culture at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent by Charles Dempsey

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