'The Swerve: How the World Became Modern'

In his latest book, Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt suggests that a single poem changed the course of history and led to the beginning of the Renaissance. In “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,” Greenblatt writes about how the discovery of a poem entitled “On the Nature of Things” by book hunter Poggio Bracciolini influenced many great minds of the time and has resonance to this day.

• More: About the book “The Swerve” – at NPR.org
• More: On the Nature of Things – Lucretius poem