title: Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History)
author:  Ada Palmer 
description: The great atomist poet has finally attracted the attention that students of modern culture should have given him long ago. Seeing so much new and innovative work on offer, readers with questions about Lucretius in the Renaissance will take Ada Palmers book as the new standard:<i> Reading Lucretius </i>is our best guide to a thinker whose ideas lit the flames of modernity. (Brian Copenhaver, UCLA)<br /><br />This is a brilliant scholarly work that is deeply relevant to today. In exploring the influence of Lucretius on the Renaissance, Ada Palmer shows how the modern world became open to the ramifications of mechanical science. More broadly, her book is a fascinating look at how ideas ripple and spread. (Walter Isaacson)
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  # Lucretia Borgia
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Ferdinand Gregorovius
  
  
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  * [TO DON MICHELANGELO GAETANI DUKE OF SERMONETA.](lubo_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [INTRODUCTION.](lubo_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [BOOK THE FIRST. LUCRETIA BORGIA IN ROME](lubo_split_3.html#1_1)
  
  
    * [CHAPTER I. LUCRETIA'S FATHER](lubo_split_4.html#1_1_1)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER II. LUCRETIA'S MOTHER](lubo_split_5.html#1_1_2)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER III. LUCRETIA'S FIRST HOME](lubo_split_6.html#1_1_3)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER IV. LUCRETIA'S EDUCATION](lubo_split_7.html#1_1_4)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER V. NEPOTISM—GIULIA FARNESE—LUCRETIA'S
  
  
  BETROTHALS
  
  
  * [CHAPTER VI. HER FATHER BECOMES POPE—GIOVANNI
  
  
  SFORZA
  
  
  * [CHAPTER VII. LUCRETIA'S FIRST MARRIAGE](lubo_split_10.html#1_1_7)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER VIII. FAMILY AFFAIRS](lubo_split_11.html#1_1_8)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER IX. LUCRETIA LEAVES ROME](lubo_split_12.html#1_1_9)
  
  
  * [CHAPTER X. HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF PESARO](lu