{"product_id":"9780099572442-swerve-the","title":"The Swerve","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow the Renaissance Began\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlmost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA riveting, exemplary tale of the great cultural \"swerve\" known as the Renaissance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlmost 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, \u003ci\u003eOn the Nature of Things\u003c\/i\u003e by Lucretius and it changed the course of history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe found a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas – that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion. These ideas fuelled the Renaissance, inspiring Botticelli, shaping the thoughts of Montaigne, Darwin, and Einstein.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn innovative work of history by one of the world’s most celebrated scholars and a thrilling story of discovery, \u003ci\u003eThe Swerve \u003c\/i\u003edetails how one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, made possible the world as we know it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Superbly readable. An exciting story, and Greenblatt tells it with his customary clarity and verve’ Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30344975351905,"sku":"9780099572442","price":12.27,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32398569.jpg?v=1737227950","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780099572442-swerve-the","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}