The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence |
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| Author:
| Brown, Alison |
| Series title: | I Tatti Study in Italian Renaissance Hist Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-05032-7 |
| Publication Date: | May 2010 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $84.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.