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Quattrocento

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

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Quattrocento

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Penned By Stephen Greenblatt
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Et si la Renaissance était née d'un livre ? Un livre perdu, connu par fragments, recopié par quelques moines et retrouve par un humaniste fou de manuscrits anciens ? L'idée, audacieuse, vertigineuse, ouvre les portes de l'histoire de Poggio Bracciolini, dit le Pogge, qui découvrit une copie du De renon nanéra de Lucrèce dans un monastère allemand. C'était a l'aube du XVe siècle. Le Pogge n'était pas seulement un bibliophile passionné et un copiste hors pair. II aimait les arts et il avait écrit des facéties grivoises. Il aimait les femmes et était père de dix - neuf enfants. Il n'aimait pas l'Eglise mais il était secrétaire d'un pape diaboliquement intelligent et corrompu. Ainsi s'ouvre à nous un monde inouï. celui d'une cour papale où s'agitaient agents cupides, moines séducteurs, filous. femmes de petite vertu et humanistes d'exception: un monde a la fois sévère et déprave, contraignant mais libre. En découvrant. copiant et diffusant l'oeuvre de Lucrèce, le Pogge aura levé le voile sur les temps modernes, et influence des esprits aussi puissants que Montaigne ou Machiavel. Car tout, selon Lucrèce, est fait d'atonies en mouvement, qui s'entrechoquent au hasard, se séparent et se rencontrent à nouveau. Telle fut l'intuition géniale du poète latin, une célébration de la danse de la matière et un bréviaire d'athéisme qui allaient bouleverser le Moyen Age finissant. Conteur né, érudit et brillant, Stephen Greenblatt emporte le lecteur au coeur de ce Quattrocento qui fit revivre l'Antiquité pour la porter jusqu'à nous.

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Length 348 Pages
Language Fre
Imprint Flammarion
Released September 26, 2011
Identifier (ISBN) 18376340
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Kenneth Miller March 18, 2025
"Such a rich narrative. I became deeply invested in the protagonist's journey. A masterclass in storytelling. An absolute must-read for connoisseurs of the genre."
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