Title Caligula's barges and the Renaissance origins of nautical archaeology under water / John M. McManamon

Edition First edition Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource Series Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series. Contents From salvage to archaeology -- The humanist salvor -- The humanist intermediary -- The humanist commentator -- Quattrocento humanist archaeology -- Cinquecento engineers and a diving bell -- The social world -- The proprietor cardinal -- Dependent workers -- Inventive professionals -- Contextualization and conceptualization -- Ancient ship types analyzed and reborn -- Ferrara's moment, 1533-1568 -- New arts and new opportunities Summary Sometime around 1446 A.D., Cardinal Prospero Colonna commissioned engineer Battista Alberti to raise two immense Roman vessels from the bottom of the lago di Nemi, just south of Rome. By that time, local fishermen had been fouling their nets and occasionally recovering stray objects from the sunken ships for 800 years. Having no idea of the size of the objects he was attempting to recover, Alberti failed. For most of the next 500 years, various attempts were made to recover the vessels. Finally, in 1928, Mussolini ordered the draining of the lake to remove the vessels and place them on the lake shore. In 1944, the ships burned in a fire that was generally blamed on the Germans. John M. McManamon connects these attempts at underwater archaeology with the Renaissance interest in reconstructing the past in order to affect the present. Nautical and marine archaeologists, as well as students and scholars of Renaissance history and historiography, will appreciate this masterfully researched and gracefully written work Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Ships, Ancient -- Italy -- Nemi, Lake Excavations (Archaeology) -- Italy. Deep diving -- Italy -- Nemi, Lake -- History Deep diving -- Equipment and supplies. Underwater archaeology -- Italy -- History Social Science / Archaeology. History / Europe / Renaissance. Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / History. Antiquities Deep diving Deep diving -- Equipment and supplies Excavations (Archaeology) Ships, Ancient Underwater archaeology SUBJECT Nemi, Lake (Italy) -- Antiquities Subject Italy Italy -- Lake Nemi Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2016014194 ISBN 1623494397 9781623494391

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