{"product_id":"the-swerve-how-the-renaissance-began","title":"The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Greenblatt, Stephen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e VINTAGE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 06-09-2012\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e Illustrated\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e A riveting, exemplary tale of the great cultural \"swerve\" known as the Renaissance.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAlmost 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, On the Nature of Things by Lucretius and it changed the course of history.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHe 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\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAn innovative work of history by one of the world’s most celebrated scholars and a thrilling story of discovery, The Swerve details how one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, made possible the world as we know it.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n‘Superbly readable... An exciting story, and Greenblatt tells it with his customary clarity and verve’ Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780099572442\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.7 x 5.0 x 1.2 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VINTAGE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66561480687920,"sku":"Trans_9780099572442","price":677.93,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/81sBpkh6qRL.jpg?v=1776442169","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/products\/the-swerve-how-the-renaissance-began","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}