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Ada Palmer

Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance

English · Hardback

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Description

Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet scholars met transformative ideas.

Product details

Authors	Ada Palmer
Publisher	Harvard University Press

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	13.10.2014

EAN	9780674725577
ISBN	978-0-674-72557-7
No. of pages	416
Series	I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
Subject	Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918

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