by Stephen Greenblatt · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782081284579
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«Quattrocento» is the historical essay by Stephen Greenblatt, published by Flammarion in paperback (345 pages, in French).
The book follows Poggio Bracciolini, a Florentine humanist who in 1417 finds in a German monastery a copy of Lucretius's poem «De rerum natura». Greenblatt portrays the papal court and the world of copyists, and explains how that discovery, with its materialist vision, influenced Machiavelli and Montaigne and drove modernity.
Originally published in English in 2011 as «The Swerve: How the World Became Modern»; the French edition was translated by Cécile Arnaud and the work won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 2012.
Ideal for fans of Renaissance history, the history of ideas, and stories about books and manuscripts.
Stephen Jay Greenblatt is an American literary historian and author. He has served as the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University since 2000. Greenblatt is the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare (2015) and the general editor and a contributor to The Norton Anthology of English Literature.
