included have been translated for the first time.
covered - books and libraries, education, republican politics and history, art, music and philosophy, showing the growing influence of classical ideas, in particular on the lives of urban elites, at first in Italy and then throughout Europe. The author also recognizes the important role that classical culture had to play in the transition from medieval to early modern society. attempt to re-define it as a coherent and distinctive movement in its own right. Using supporting documents the books aim to provide a clear account of historical facts and the differing interpretations of central themes. This series provides analyses of complex issues and problems in important A level Modern History topics. covered - books and libraries, education, republican politics.
Brown thus adds a missing dimension to our understanding of the “revolution” in sixteenth-century political thinking, as she enriches our definition of the Renaissance in a context of newly discovered worlds and new social networks.This series provides analyses of complex issues and problems in important A level Modern History topics. The humanists’ challenge to established beliefs encouraged the growth of a “Lucretian network” of younger, politically disaffected Florentines. This new edition has been revised to include a discussion of Venice, Rome, Naples and Florence and their relationship with surrounding courts and. Interpreting their direct use of Lucretius within the context of mercantile Florence, Brown highlights three dangerous themes that had particular appeal: Lucretius’s attack on superstitious religion and an afterlife his pre-Darwinian theory of evolution and his atomism, with its theory of free will and the chance creation of the world. The Renaissance, now in its third edition, engages with earlier and current debates about the Renaissance, especially concerning its 'modernity', its elitism and gender-bias, and its globalism. To answer the question of why ordinary Florentines were drawn to this recently discovered text, despite its threat to orthodox Christian belief, Brown tracks interest in it through three humanists-the most famous of whom was Machiavelli-all working not as philologists but as practical administrators and teachers in the Florentine chancery and university. In this first comprehensive study of the effect of Lucretius’s De rerum natura on Florentine thought in the Renaissance, Alison Brown demonstrates how Lucretius was used by Florentine thinkers-earlier and more widely than has been supposed-to provide a radical critique of prevailing orthodoxies.
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