Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance /Ada Palmer.

Palmer, Ada.

Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance /Ada Palmer. - Cambridge : Harvard University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (xiv, 372 pages) : illustrations. - I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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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Electronic Books.

PA6495 / .R433 2014