The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393343403ISBN-10:393343405UPC:9780393343403Book Category:History, Art, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Europe, History, History & SurveysBook Topic:RenaissanceAward:2012 Cundill Prize Finalist - Historical Literature AwardSize:8.22 x 5.55 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.9811Product ID:SC1BF6GP0B
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. He was Poggio Bracciolini, the greatest book hunter of the Renaissance. His discovery, Lucretius' ancient poem On the Nature of Things, had been almost entirely lost to...
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393343403ISBN-10:393343405UPC:9780393343403Book Category:History, Art, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Europe, History, History & SurveysBook Topic:RenaissanceAward:2012 Cundill Prize Finalist - Historical Literature AwardSize:8.22 x 5.55 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.9811Product ID:SC1BF6GP0B
Greenblatt, Stephen: - Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, he is the author of eleven books, including Tyrant, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story that Created Us, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (winner of the 2011 National Book Award and the 2012...
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🏆 2012 Cundill Prize Finalist - Historical Literature Award
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