The Swerve

Author: Stephen Greenblatt

"The Swerve" by Stephen Greenblatt explores the story of how the discovery of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, Lucretius's "On the Nature of Things," sparked the Renaissance by reintroducing ideas that challenged the medieval worldview and laid the groundwork for modern thought.

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