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The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began

The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began

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Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and is the founder of the school of literary criticism known as New Historicism. As visiting professor and lecturer at universities in England, Australia, the United States and elsewhere throughout the world, he has delivered such distinguished series of lectures as the Clarendon Lectures at Oxford and the University Public Lectures at Princeton.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION & Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction

Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving copy of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things by Lucretius and it changed the course of history.

He found a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas - that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion. These ideas fuelled the Renaissance, inspiring Botticelli, shaping the thoughts of Montaigne, Darwin and Einstein.

An innovative work of history by one of the world's most celebrated scholars and a thrilling story of discovery, The Swerve details how one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, made possible the world as we know it.

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Renaissance, History, Italy, 9780099572442.
Product Code 1035088
ISBN 9780099572442
Author John Greenblatt
Format Paperback
GTIN 9780099572442
Pages 368
Published September 2012
Publisher Vintage Books
Dimensions 13 X 19.8 X 2.4 cm
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