The Egyptian Renaissance

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Egyptian Renaissance

1 The Memory of Egypt

2 Egyptian Monuments from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

3 Huamnists and Heiroglyphs

4 Egyptian Monuments for Renaissance Princes

5 Sacred Writing: from Hermes Trismegistus to Heiroglyphic Epigraphy

6 Egyptian Ancestors: Alxander VI and Annius of Viterbo

7 Egypt in Venice: Francesco Colonna and Gentile Bellini

8 Cleopatra and the Second Julius: Egyptology and the Dream of Empire in High Renaissance Rome

9 Egyptian Lives (and Afterlives) in the Rome of Medici Popes

10 Heiroglyphic Studies in the High Renaissance

11 The Scepter of Osiris: Egyptian Mysteries in the Missal of Carinal Pompeo

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Conclusion: The Egyptian in the Mirror

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index