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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Palmer, Ada (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Series:I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
Subjects:
Lucretius Carus, Titus. > De rerum natura.
De rerum natura (Lucretius Carus, Titus)
POETRY > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
HISTORY > Renaissance.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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