The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began

Synopsis

A riveting, exemplary tale of the great cultural "swerve" known as the renaissance. Winner of the pulitzer prize for non-fiction 2012almost 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.