Resumen de Natural desiderio di sapere. Roma barocca fra vecchi e nuovi mondi, by Sabina Brevaglieri
Sabina Brevaglieri, Natural desiderio di sapere. Roma barocca fra vecchi e nuovi mondi. Roma: Viella, 2019. 476 pp. ISBN: 9788833132334.
The focus of the monograph by Sabina Brevaglieri is the Thesaurus Mexicanus, the most incisive expression of the scientific and cultural face of the Accademia dei Lincei. By tracing the phases of the long and troubled vicissitudes of this work—since it was released “belatedly,” in 1651, at the end of a forty-year-long gestation—Brevaglieri’s investigation develops as a detailed reconstruction of all the facets expressed by the Roman scene, considered as a space ...10.1163/18253911-bja10028
