The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence

The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 158
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ISBN-10 : 9780674050327
ISBN-13 : 0674050320
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Book Synopsis The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence by : Alison Brown

Download or read book The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence written by Alison Brown and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown demonstrates how Florentine thinkers used Lucretius—earlier and more widely than has been supposed—to provide a radical critique of prevailing orthodoxies. She enhances our understanding of the “revolution” in sixteenth-century political thinking and our definition of the Renaissance within newly discovered worlds and new social networks.


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