Monday 23 March 2015

The Swerve By Stephen Greenblatt


The Swerve
Title : The Swerve
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ISBN : 0393064476
Format : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 356




Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial More...

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