Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) was, during his lifetime, one of Europe's most famous men. This book is the first in English to portray this extraordinary man as well as his whole circle, including Pope Urban VIII, Galileo, Peter-Paul Rubens, and Hugo Grotius, and many others. Looking th[...]
Antiquarian, lawyer, and cat lover Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580 1637) was a prince of the Republic of Letters and the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. From Peiresc s study in Aix-en-Provence, his insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of le[...]