This Vlog is about the true story of a mysterious book that was lost for more than 1000 years. Once it is found by accident it contributed significantly to the start of a new area in the Western world called the Renaissance… The book The Swerve by Greenblatt tells this increadible story…
Books featured in this Episode
Title: The Swerve, How the Renaissance Began
Author: Stephen Greenblatt
ISBN 9780099572442
Title: Lucretius On the Nature of Things
Author/translator: Frank O. Copley
ISBN: 9780393341362
Title: The Name of the Rose
Author: Umberto Eco
ISBN: 9780099466031
Title: Lucretius De Natuur van de Dingen
Author/translator: Piet Schrijvers
ISBN: 9789065544247
Note: Very nice Latin – Dutch edition with a very clear introduction.
