BOOKS
Devlieger, Lionel / Verschaffel, Bart en van Eck, Caroline (promotoren).
Benedetto Varchi. On the birth of artefacts. Architecture, Alchemie and power in the late-renaissance Florence.
Gent, Universiteit Gent, 2005.
€ 95.00
Softcover, x+[4]+vi+331pp.,16x24cm., illustr. in b/w., in accaptable / good condition (covers with traces of use, spine folded).
Itemnummer 15318 
Proefschrift ingediend tot het behalen van de graad van Doctor in de Toegepaste Wetenschappen: Architectuur. Vakgroep Architectuur & Stedenbouw. Voorzitter: prof. dr. Bart Verschaffel. Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen. Academiejaar 2004-2005. CONTENT: 1) Varchi's early years. From fuoruscito to cortegiano. 2) Benedetto Varchi Lecturer at the Fiorentina. 3) Benedetto Varchi and the Biological Roots of Concetti. 4) Love and pleasure. The nature of the drive for generation. 5) Physiocracy, or the Rule of Nature. 6) Ducal Alchemy. 7) Passing down Virtu. 8) Benvenuto Cellini. The recalcitrant agent. Appendix I: Benedetto Varchi' published Fiorentina lectures. Appendix II: Varchi's naturalist friends.