Poggio Rediscovers Lucretius
1416
The papal secretary Poggio Bracciolini found a copy of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura, an Epicurean poem arguing that everything was made of atoms and gods did not meddle in human affairs, moldering in a German monastery. He had it copied. The poem re-entered European thought and began quietly eroding the medieval worldview.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.