The Swerve
by Stephen Greenblatt · Stephen Greenblatt
A Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative history recounting how a fifteenth-century manuscript hunter's rediscovery of Lucretius's ancient poem 'On the Nature of Things' helped spark the intellectual currents that fed into the Renaissance and early modern thought.
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