Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance by Ada Palmer

Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance

Ada Palmer

372 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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After its rediscovery in 1417, Lucretius's Epicurean didactic poem "De Rerum Natura" threatened to supply radicals and atheists with the one weapon unbelief had lacked in the Middle Ages: good answers. Scholars could now challenge Christian patter...

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