The Swerve - How the Renaissance Began

Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late 30s took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. The book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic. This title tells the story of this discovery.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Greenblatt, Greenblatt Stephen
• Publisher: Bodley Head Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9780224078788
• ISBN: 978-0-224-07878-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 240 mm x 35 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Renaissance, Enlightenment