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Greenblatt writes of how a poem (evidently an exquisitely beautiful poem) written by a Roman Epicurean, Lucretius, was recovered and circulated by a 15th century Florentine papal scribe. And how the poem survived the Roman church's animosity to the ideas elucidated in the poem to become a foundation for Thomas More's Utopia and Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, and how it also formed a framework for Enlightenment scientists to view the world.
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