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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
Harvard University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
