Translating Impiety: Girolamo Frachetta and the First Vernacular Commentary on Lucretius

By James K. Coleman

This essay sheds light on an important but largely overlooked chapter in the story of the early modern reception of Lucretius’ De rerum natura: the publication, in 1589, of Girolamo Frachetta’s Breve spositione di tutta l’opera di Lucretio, the…

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