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Who it's for · Why people still read it · If you like it, read next
- Who it's for
- For readers of the history of ideas and of the Renaissance, and for anyone who enjoys stories of lost and found books. Worth knowing: several historians fault it for simplifying and for setting the Middle Ages and the Renaissance too sharply against each other.
- Why people still read it
- It won the 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2012, and appeared on many best-of-the-year lists.
If you like it, read next
- El infinito en un juncoIrene VallejoAnother story of how ancient books survived and reached us.
- El QuattrocentoRafael ArgullolAn essay on the art and thought of the Italian Renaissance.
- El otoño de la Edad MediaJohan HuizingaA classic that looks at the end of the Middle Ages with more nuance than The Swerve.
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Sobre El Giro, De cómo un manuscrito olvidado contribuyó... de Stephen Greenblatt. 2012.
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