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The swerve [how the world became modern]  Cover Image CD Audiobook CD Audiobook

The swerve [sound recording] : [how the world became modern] / by Stephen Greenblatt.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781461838227
  • ISBN: 1461838223
  • Physical Description: 8 sound discs (9.75 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Compact discs.
Subtitle from container.
In container (17 cm.)
"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
Participant or Performer Note:
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini.
Summary, etc.:
Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion.
Subject: Lucretius Carus, Titus > Influence.
Lucretius Carus, Titus. De rerum natura.
Renaissance.
Philosophy, Renaissance.
Science, Renaissance.
Civilization, Modern.
Genre: Audiobooks.


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