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Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance /
After its rediscovery in 1417, Lucretius's Epicurean didactic poem De Rerum Natura threatened to supply radicals and atheists with the one weapon unbelief had lacked in the Middle Ages: good answers. Scholars could now challenge Christian patterns of thought by employing the theory of atomistic...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
Harvard University Press,
2014.
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| Collection: | I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Religion trampled underfoot: Epicurus, atomism, atheism and skepticism in the Renaissance
- Unchristian opinion: Lucretius' first Renaissance readers
- Between fits of madness: ancient reference and proto-biographies
- The lofty madness of wise Lucretius: the Renaissance biographies
- The poverty of the language: the Lucretian print tradition
- Deceived but not betrayed.