The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence
Download or Read eBook The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence PDF 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.
| Author | : Alison Brown |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 2010-05-05 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780674050327 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0674050320 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence by : Alison Brown
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.
