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Title

Dialoghi…intorno alle medaglie, inscrittioni, & altre antichità

Description

The study of antiquities, especially ancient coins, flourished in the last half of the sixteenth century. Antonio Agustín y Albanell (1517-1596) was archbishop of Tarragona in notheast Spain, jurisconsult, and numismatist. His dialogues, originally written in Spanish, critiqued his contemporaries and their studies for ignorance of the classical Latin sources. Only one hundred copies of his work were printed, as he did not want his opinions on the inferiority of other numismatists to be widely known. He considered himself an artisan and made all of the woodcut illustrations of the various coins, medals, and ruins that appear throughout the work.

Call Number (click link to view in library catalog)

Q. 737 Ag9dIs1625

See Also

Full Text Available at HathiTrust

Authors

Agustín, Antonio

Full Title

Dialoghi di don Antonio Agostini archiuescouo di Tarracona, intorno alle medaglie, inscrittioni, & altre antichità tradotti di lingua spagnuola in italiana da Dionigi Ottauiano Sada, e di nuouo accresciuti con diuerse annotationi, et illustrati con disegni di molte medaglie, e d'altre figure.

Date

1625

From the Exhibit

Building a Library: Arts

Publisher

Appresso Andrea Fei à spese di Pompilio Totti, & Andrea Montano

Location

Rome

Language

Italian

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Type

Text

List of Contributors

Sada, Dionigi Ottaviano

Medium

Book

Bibliographic Citation

Agustín, Antonio. Dialoghi... intorno alle medaglie, inscrittioni, & altre antichità. Rome: Appresso Andrea Fei à spese di Pompilio Totti, & Andrea Montano, 1625. Print.