Montaigne’s Annotated Copy of Lucretius

Abstract

Une decouverte exceptionnelle que ce texte de Lucrece entierement annote de la main de Montaigne ! Les remarques et commentaires, la plupart en francais, jusqu’aux traces de sa plume trainante dans les marges, indiquent les reactions de Montaigne face au poeme et precisent quelques fondements de sa pensee. Extraits d'un article paru dans The Times Literary Supplement du 26 mars 99: M.A. Screech's anecdote about the recent discovery of Montaigne's annotated copy of Lucretius (...) and relish in being commissioned to transcribe it, set the engagingly personal tone for the quirky and emphatically umpedantic work of reference. (...) In his book, Screech has obligingly done our homework for us so that each reader can have the pleasure of judging how Montaigne read Lucretius. In the end, it is as much of a pleasure to observe Screech reading Montaigne. by Yasmin Haskell

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