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The Poem That Dragged Us Out of the Dark Ages
Book Title: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Particle physics. Human self-determination. Evolution. According to Renaissance scholar Stephen Greenblatt, we owe these modern ideas to an ancient Roman poem, rediscovered in 1417.

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