Title : Quattrocento - Stephen Greenblatt - book

Summary :

What if the Renaissance was born from a book? A lost book, known in fragments, copied by a few monks and rediscovered by a humanist mad about ancient manuscripts? The idea, bold and dizzying, opens the doors to the story of Poggio Bracciolini, known as Pogge, who discovered a copy of Lucretius's De rerum natura in a German monastery. This was at the dawn of the 15th century. Pogge was not only a passionate bibliophile and an outstanding copyist. He loved the arts and had written bawdy jokes. He loved women and was the father of nineteen children. He did not love the Church, but was secretary to a diabolically intelligent and corrupt pope. His discovery would precipitate modern times and influence minds as powerful as Botticelli, Montaigne, and Machiavelli.

• EAN : 9782081312814
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