Download or read book Peiresc’s Mediterranean World written by Peter N. Miller and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc was the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. His insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of letters that traveled the Mediterranean, seeking knowledge. Mining his 70,000-page archive, Peter N. Miller recovers a lost Mediterranean world of the early seventeenth century.