Resumen de Luxuswaren und Wissensobjekte
The Venetian incunabula and post-incunabula traced in the library ofthe Nuremberg humanist Willibald Pirckheimer express the significant influenceof the two cities’relationship on shaping early modern culture in North-alpineEurope: The books, traded by Franconian merchants as luxury goods and, due tothe miniatures added by Albrecht Dürer, examples of the influence of Italian Re-naissance art north of the Alpes, also shaped the development of Greek huma-nism in the north and played an important role in constituting learned networks.The ambivalent and always shifting relation of their status as luxury goods or asobjects of intellectual knowledge continued after Pirckheimer’s death as they be-came part of important English book collections and in the 1920s precious piecesof the stocks of the famous Munich antiquarians Jacques and Erwin Rosenthal,the latter studying as an art historian the artistic importance of Dürer’s miniaturesin Pirckheimer’s Venetian books.
