Lukrez; De rerum natura

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The return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence

fromI Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history

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The early Epicurean revival in Florence and Italy -- Medicean Florence : Ficino and Bartolomeo Scala -- Republican Florence : the university lectures of Marcello Adriani -- Niccol Machiavelli and the influence of Lucretius -- Lucretian networks in the late fifteenth and early si…

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The swerve: how the world became modern

by Greenblatt, Stephen

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One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world a…

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Virgil on the nature of things: the Georgics, Lucretius, and the didactic traditi…

by Gale, Monica, (Monica R.)

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"The Georgics has for the past twenty years been a source of fierce controversy among scholars of Latin literature. Is the work optimistic or pessimistic, pro- or anti-Augustan? Should we read it as a eulogy or a bitter critique of Rome and her imperial ambitions? This book sugg…