正題名/作者 : The swerve :/ Stephen Greenblatt.
其他題名 : how the world became modern /
作者 : Greenblatt, Stephen,
出版者 : New York :W.W. Norton,c2011.
面頁冊數 : 356 p., [8] p. of plates :col. ill. ;25 cm.
標題 : Renaissance. -
ISBN : 9780393064476 (hbk.)
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300 $a356 p., [8] p. of plates :$bcol. ill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [309]-335) and index.
520 $aIn this book the author transports readers to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius, a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: 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, colliding and swerving in new directions.
586 $aNational Book Award, 2011.
586 $aPulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, 2012
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