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04831aam a2200481Li 4500 001 F808A9EEECCE11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160318010059 008 150319t20162016enka b 101 0 eng d 010 $a 2014959897 020 $a 0198713843 020 $a 9780198713845 035 $a (OCoLC)928767173 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d OCLCO $d UBY $d OCLCF $d COO $d GZM $d ORU $d OCLCO $d COD $d OCLCA $d SILO 043 $a e------ 050 4 $a PA6484 $b .L83 2016 082 04 $a 871/.01 $2 23 245 00 $a Lucretius and the early modern / $c edited by David Norbrook, Stephen Harrison, and Philip Hardie. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford, United Kingdom : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a xiii, 313 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Classical presences 520 8 $a The rediscovery in the fifteenth century of Lucretius' De rerum natura was a challenge to received ideas. The poem offered a vision of the creation of the universe, the origins and goals of human life, and the formation of the state, all without reference to divine intervention. It has been hailed in Stephen Greenblatt's best-selling book, The Swerve, as the poem that invented modernity. But how modern did early modern readers want to become? This collection of essays offers a series of case studies which demonstrate the sophisticated ways in which some readers might relate the poem to received ideas, assimilating Lucretius to theories of natural law and even natural theology, while others were at once attracted to Lucretius' subversiveness and driven to dissociate themselves from him. The volume presents a wide geographical range, from Florence and Venice to France, England, and Germany, and extends chronologically from Lucretius' contemporary audience to the European Enlightenment. It covers both major authors such as Montaigne and neglected figures such as Italian neo-Latin poets, and is the first book in the field to pay close attention to Lucretius' impact on political thought, both in philosophy - from Machiavelli, through Hobbes, to Rousseau - and in the topical spin put on the De rerum natura by translators in revolutionary England. It combines careful attention to material contexts of book production and distribution with close readings of particular interpretations and translations, to present a rich and nuanced profile of the mark made by a remarkable poem. 500 $a "This book originated in a conference on 'Lucretius and the Early Modern', 16 May 2012, one of a series of conferences held by Oxford's Centre for Early Modern Studies (CEMS) ... co-sponsored by the Corpus Christi Centre for the Study of Greek and Roman Antiquity"-Acknowledgements. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-310) and index. 505 0 $a Epicurean subversion? : Lucretius's first proem and contemporary Roman culture / Stephen Harrison -- Lucretius in the early modern period : texts and contexts / David Butterfield -- Lucretian naturalism and the evolution of Machiavelli's ethics / Alison Brown -- Poetic flights or retreats? : Latin Lucretian poems in sixteenth-century Italy / Yasmin Haskell -- Lucretius, atheism, and irreligion in Renaissance and early modern Venice / N.S. Davidson -- 'Well said/well thought' : how Montaigne read his Lucretius / Wes Williams -- Michel de Morolles's 1650 French translation of Lucretius and its reception in England / Line Cottegnies -- Lucretianism and some seventeenth-century theories of human origin / William Poole -- Is the De rerum natura a work of natural theology? : some ancient, modern, and early modern perspectives / Nicholas Hardy -- Atheists and republicans : interpreting Lucretius in revolutionary England / David Norbrook -- Political philosophy in a Lucretian mode / Catherine Wilson. 600 10 $a Lucretius Carus, Titus. $t De rerum natura $v Congresses. 600 10 $a Lucretius Carus, Titus $x Criticism and interpretation $v Congresses. 600 10 $a Lucretius Carus, Titus $x Influence $v Congresses. 650 0 $a Didactic poetry, Latin $x History and criticism $v Congresses. 651 0 $a Europe $x Roman influences $x Roman influences $v Congresses. 630 07 $a De rerum natura (Lucretius Carus, Titus) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01356043 655 7 $a Conference papers and proceedings. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Essays. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Conference papers and proceedings. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423772 700 1 $a Norbrook, David, $d 1950- $e editor. 700 1 $a Harrison, S. J., $e editor. 700 1 $a Hardie, Philip R., $e editor. 710 2 $a University of Oxford. $b Centre for Early Modern Studies, $e organizer. 830 0 $a Classical presences. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019021038.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F808A9EEECCE11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search