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The Swerve
How the Renaissance Began
Paperback | 18 September 2012 | Edition Number 1
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A riveting, exemplary tale of the great cultural "swerve" known as the Renaissance.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012
Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving copy of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things by Lucretius and it changed the course of history.
He found a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas â" that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion. These ideas fuelled the Renaissance, inspiring Botticelli, shaping the thoughts of Montaigne, Darwin, and Einstein.
An innovative work of history by one of the worldâs most celebrated scholars and a thrilling story of discovery, The Swerve details how one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, made possible the world as we know it.
âSuperbly readable... An exciting story, and Greenblatt tells it with his customary clarity and verveâ Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Daily Telegraph
Industry Reviews
Superb history ... this concise, learned and fluently written book tells a remarkable story -- Charles Nicholl * Observer *
Dazzling * Guardian *
In this outstandingly constructed assessment of the birth of philosophical modernity, renowned Shakespeare scholar Greenblatt deftly transports reader to the dawn of the Renaissance...Readers from across the humanities will find this enthralling account irresistible * Library Journal *
More wonderfully illuminating Renaissance history from a master scholar and historian (starred review) * Kirkus Reviews *
ISBN: 9780099572442
ISBN-10: 0099572443
Published: 18th September 2012
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 368
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 2.5 x 13 x 19.9
Weight (kg): 0.23
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