It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology by Marina Belozerskaya
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How Cyriacus of Ancona—merchant, spy, and amateur classicist—traveled the world, fighting to save ancient monuments for posterity. At the beginning of the fifteenth century, a young Italian bookkeeper fell under the spell of the classical past. Despite his limited education, the Greeks and Romans seemed to speak directly to him—not from books but from the physical ruins and inscriptions that lay neglected around the shores of the Mediterranean.As an international merchant, Cyriacus of Ancona was accustomed to the perils of travel in foreign lands—unlike his more scholarly peers with their...
To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology by Marina Belozerskaya is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.
This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology aloud.
To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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