The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began

The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
ISBN-10
0099572443
ISBN-13
9780099572442
Category
Renaissance
Pages
356
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Random House
Author
Stephen Greenblatt

Description

Almost 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. This book details how one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, made possible the world as we know it.

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