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Description of  Pirro Ligorios Worlds (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 34, 293)

A reconsideration of the manifold interests of the central and controversial figure Pirro Ligorio, an ambiguous antagonist of the canon embodied by Michelangelo and one of the most fascinating and learned antiquarians in the entourage of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese.