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The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
Stephen Greenblatt
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Description for The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
Paperback. Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. This book details how one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, made possible the world as we know it. Num Pages: 368 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 272.
A riveting, exemplary tale of the great cultural "swerve" known as the Renaissance.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012
Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving copy of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things by Lucretius and it changed the course of history.
He found a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas – that the universe functioned without the aid of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099572442
SKU
9780099572442
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of twelve books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which won the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, as well as the New York Times bestseller Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and the classic university text Renaissance Self-Fashioning. ... Read more
Reviews for The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
Superbly readable... An exciting story, and Greenblatt tells it with his customary clarity and verve
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Daily Telegraph
Superb history ... this concise, learned and fluently written book tells a remarkable story
Charles Nicholl
Observer
Dazzling
Guardian
In this outstandingly constructed assessment of the birth of philosophical modernity, renowned Shakespeare scholar ... Read more
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Daily Telegraph
Superb history ... this concise, learned and fluently written book tells a remarkable story
Charles Nicholl
Observer
Dazzling
Guardian
In this outstandingly constructed assessment of the birth of philosophical modernity, renowned Shakespeare scholar ... Read more