New PDF release: Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance (I Tatti studies in

By Ada Palmer

ISBN-10: 0674725573

ISBN-13: 9780674725577

Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, now not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism conception. This heterodoxy circulated within the premodern international, no longer at the conspicuous level of heresy trials and public debates yet within the study rooms, libraries, stories, and bookshops the place quiet students met transformative ideas.

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