SCHOLAR TO SPEAK ON EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN SCHOLARSHIP

Anthony T. Grafton, one of the country's leading scholars on the intellectual world of early modern Europe, will deliver a Friends of the Library lecture on Monday, Nov. 15, at 4:30 p.m., in Carpenter 21. The title of the lecture is "Scholarship in Early Modern Europe: Contours of a Lost World."

Grafton, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, has written widely on the cultural history of Renaissance Europe, with special interests in the history of books and readers, the history of scholarship and education, and the history of science. Among his numerous books are The Footnote: a Curious History (1997), Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer (1999); Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance (2000); and Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation (2001). Last year he received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, one of four scholars in the country to be so honored.

There will be a reception following the lecture in the Class of 1912 Rare Book Room in Canaday Library, and a viewing of the exhibition, The Invention of Antiquity, curated by History of Art graduate student Benjamin Anderson.

For further information, contact the Department of Special Collections: 610-526-6576.

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