Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance

by Ada Palmer

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.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674725573
• ISBN13: 9780674725577
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.7"