Il manoscritto. Come la riscoperta di un libro perduto cambiò la storia della cultura europea
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Nel 1417, in un'epoca in cui per impadronirsi di un testo antico si poteva rubare o uccidere, l'umanista Poggio Bracciolini scoprì in un monastero tedesco l'unica copia sopravvissuta del poema filosofico di Lucrezio, "De rerum natura". Oggi "Il manoscritto" racconta l'impatto delle idee di Lucrezio - intorno agli atomi, agli dèi e alla loro assenza, alla felicità umana - su artisti e pensatori come Botticelli e Giordano Bruno, Montaigne e Shakespeare, Freud e Einstein. Con il passo e la felicità del narratore Greenblatt dimostra in queste pagine che i grandi libri cambiano la storia del mondo.
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- Pagine: 364
- Data di uscita: 28-08-2013
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"When we say...that pleasure is the end and aim of life, we do not mean the pleasures of the prodigal or the pleasures of sensuality, as we are understood to do by some through ignorance, prejudice, or willful misrepresentation. By pleasure we mean the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in t Leggi tutto
The Anti-Climactic Swerve Greenblatt is a good story-teller and delivers good entertainment value here, but not much informative or educational value, except as an enticing short introductory to Lucretius , Bruno and Montaigne . As Greenblatt acknowledges, there is no single explanation for the emer Leggi tutto
Two thousand years ago a Roman named Lucretius wrote a poem that described a universe guided by physical laws rather than the whims of mystical deities and also advised that people should pursue happiness rather than spend their lives trying to appease gods who don’t exist . As I write this in 2012 Leggi tutto
A dubious thesis propped up by selective evidence and punctuated by digressions that were often only tenuously connected to the book's argument. Greenblatt massively overstates Epicurean philosophy's significance in the ancient world and his bold claims for the influence of Lucretius' poem in the
But for the pagans... pain was understood not as a positive value, a stepping stone to salvation, as it was by pious Christians intent on whipping themselves, but as an evil, something visited upon rulebreakers, criminals, captives, unfortunate wretches, and - the only category with dignity - soldie Leggi tutto
The subtitle of this book is “how the world became modern.” It imparts no such knowledge. It’s a story of the marginal liberalization of thought brought on by the rediscovery of Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things . All the business about atoms. I didn’t learn much . Yet there’s stuff to like. Especia Leggi tutto
Usually five stars is my rating for a classic I read that was everything I hoped it would be. Nonfiction only gets five stars if it's very special. Once or twice a year. This book is great. It's a microhistory; that's a book that takes a little niche in history, and generally uses that niche to jump Leggi tutto
O carte despre o răsturnare istorică (oare de ce preferăm cărțile de acest gen?), scrisă cu un simț narativ deosebit, dar prea puțin convingătoare. De cele mai multe ori prefer o astfel de carte tocmai pentru ipoteza îndrăzneață pe care istoricul încearcă s-o justifice, deși pînă și el știe că încer Leggi tutto
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