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SUMMARY:'The Resurrection\, Rejection and Reincorporation of Lucretius' De
  Rerum Natura in Early Modern Europe’ - Dr. David Butterfield (Cambridge
 \, Classics).
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CONTACT:Helen Roche
DESCRIPTION:When the celebrated Italian humanist and inveterate bookhunter
  Poggio Bracciolini turned up a copy of Lucretius' _De Rerum Natura_ he co
 uld scarcely have known what he had unearthed: not only a copy of one of t
 he great poems of antiquity\, which had been unknown across Europe for the
  last half millennium\, but also one of the most controversial\, seductive
  and powerful accounts of philosophy to have survived to the modern age in
  any language. This paper surveys some of the varied responses\, from the 
 extremely positive to the extraordinarily negative\, that Lucretius' poem 
 elicited in the first 300 years of its troubled existence in Renaissance a
 nd Early Modern Europe.
LOCATION:Classics Faculty\, Room G.21
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