""Young Cayleb Ahrmahk has accomplished things few people could even dream of. Not yet thirty years old, he's won the most crushing naval victories in human history. He's smashed a hostile alliance of no less than five princedoms and won the hand of the beautiful young Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm. Cayleb and Sharleyan have created the Charisian Empire, the greatest naval power in the history of Safehold, and they've turned Charis into a ..."
Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History) by AdaPalmer Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2014 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-72557-7, ISBN: 0-674-72557-3
"After its rediscovery in 1417, Lucretius’s Epicurean didactic poem De Rerum Natura threatened to supply radicals and atheists with the one weapon unbelief had lacked in the Middle Ages: good answers. Scholars could now challenge Christian patterns of thought by employing the theory of atomistic physics, a sophisticated system that explained natural phenomena without appeal to divine participation, and argued powerfully against the immor ..."
"See Alieto Pieri, Lucrezio in Macrobio: Adattamenti al testo virgiliano (Messina,
1977); also Solaro, Lucrezio, 120. Institutiones grammaticae VI 20 (2, 211, 20 K),
“Lucretius similiter in VI:/ propterea fit, uti, quae semina cumque habet ignis,/
demittat, quia saepe gelum, quod continet in se,/ mittit.” (DRNBI 873–875); see
Solaro, Lucrezio, 48. “Accidit hocprimum imbecillitate ingenii mei, deinde inopia
ac potius, ut Lucretius ai ..."