Y terminamos esta pequeña serie dedicada al coleccionismo en la Edad Moderna con esta obra, uno de cuyos editores es Robert Evans, el gran especialista en la figura del sin par Rodolfo II.
Indice.
Preface, Robert Evans.
Introduction, Alexander Marr.
'Out of the frying pan...': curiosity, danger, and the poetics of witness in the Renaissance traveller's tale, Wes Williams.
The metaphorical collecting of curiosities in early modern France and Germany, Neil Kenny.
The New World collections of Duke Cosimo I de Medici and their role in the creation of a Kunst- and Wunderkammer in the Palazzo Vecchio, or: did the Medici ever create a Kunstkammer?, Adriana Turpin.
The jocund cabinet and the melancholy museum in 17th-century English literature, Claire Preston.
Curious knowledge and wonder-working wisdom in the occult works of Heinrich Khunrath, Peter Forshaw.
Enthusiasm and 'damnable curiosity': Meric Casaubon and John Dee, Stephen Clucas.
Gentille curiosite: wonder-working and the culture of automata in the late Renaissance, Alexander Marr.
Nosce teipsum: curiosity, the humoural body, and the culture of therapeutics in late 16th- and early 17th-century England, Deborah Harkness.
Back from wonderland: Jean Antoine Nollet's Italian tour (1749), Paola Bertucci.
Curiosity and the Iusus naturae: the case of 'Proteus' Hill, George Rousseau.
Epilogue, George Rousseau.
Datos de la obra: Robert J.W. Evans y Alexander Marr, Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2006.