Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance

Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance
Author: Ada Palmer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2014-10-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674725573

Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This heterodoxy circulated in the premodern world, not on the conspicuous stage of heresy trials and public debates but in the classrooms, libraries, studies, and bookshops where quiet scholars met transformative ideas.