The Renaissance and the New World (History of Everyday Things series)

by Giovanni Caselli

Series:History of Everyday Things, La Vie Privée des Hommes (21)

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Presents, in text and illustrations, a range of people whose way of life reveals various aspects of the society developing in Europe and America from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.

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Giovanni Caselli

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Giovanni Caselli is well known as both an archaeologist and an illustrator. His drawings trace Evans's excavations at Knossos, and he uses the evidence found there to reconstruct different aspects of life in ancient Crete.