The swerve how the world became modern

"Almost six hundred years ago, an old neglected manuscript was taken off a library shelf, recognized as the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius, it was copied and translated. The manuscript held dangerous, revolutionary ideas that fueled the Renaissance by inspiring artists, scholars, writers and thinkers such as Botticelli, Bruno, Galileo, Freud, Darwin, Einstein, Montaigne, Shakespeare and even Thomas Jefferson."
"Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion."
"Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion."@en