The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt, a work of history/intellectual history, published in 2011 available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4hnsvCm

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Unearth the book that changed the world! Journey back to the Renaissance with Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve, a captivating exploration of how the rediscovery of a single ancient poem, Lucretius's On the Nature of Things, ignited a revolution in thought and paved the way for modernity.... Follow the daring book hunter Poggio Bracciolini as he braves forgotten monastic libraries in search of lost classical manuscripts.... Discover the explosive ideas within Lucretius's work—a materialist und ...