"Casimir Pulaski Day" and the Crucified Christ

Sufjan Wrestles with Epicurus, and with God

A while back, a friend gifted me Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. It tells the story of Poggio Bracciolini’s 1417 discovery, in a remote monastery library—most like the Abbey of Fulda in what is now Hesse—of Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura, On the Nature of Things. Greenblatt contends that without Poggio’s discovery, the entire …