The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence

The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence Brown Alison Wydawca: Harvard University Press Data wydania: 2010 ISBN: 9780674050327 Liczba stron: 160 Format: 237 x 167 x 17 Rodzaj oprawy: Hardback Opis produktu: 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.