The Swerve (2011) by Stephen Greenblatt is a Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the 1417 rediscovery of Lucretius' De rerum natura by Poggio Bracciolini, arguing that this event was a catalyst for the Renaissance and modern secular materialism.
Made the story of Lucretius' rediscovery accessible to a mass audience; popularized the idea that ancient materialism sparked modernity.
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