The Unsung Heroes of Music: Part 2
In the winter of 1417, a young man named Poggio Braciolini was searching through a library when it found an odd manuscript sitting on a shelf\u2026it was a thousand years old\u2014the last surviving copy of a poem by a roman philosopher named Lucretius\u2026\n\nWhat Lucretius said in this poem was radical\u2014heretical, in fact\u2026what it contained was against all the teachings of God and men\u2026it was called \u201cOn The Nature of Things\u201d\u2026\n\nFirst, he posited that the universe operated without Gods and that matter was made of tiny, tiny, particles that were in constant motion\u2026\n\nDespite the danger\u2014this was explosive stuff in 1417\u2014Bracciolini translated the poem\u2026copies were carefully distributed over the next couple of hundred years\u2026and the intellectual impact on Europe was incalculable\u2026\n\nLucretius\u2019 notions inspired new ways of thinking, leading to the renaissance, the enlightenment and all that followed\u2026Bracciolini\u2019s translation of \u201cOn The Nature of Things\u201d quite literally changed the course of humanity\u2026\n\nScholars have argued that because of him, the world became modern\u2026that everything we take for granted today in terms of culture and thought happened because Bracciolini happened to find that one-and-only manuscript\u2026\n\nYet have you ever heard of Poggio Bracciolini?...probably not\u2026he is one of the great unsung heroes of history\u2026\n\nNow let\u2019s apply the same sort of thinking to the history of rock\u2026are there similar such people\u2014people who did something that altered the course of this music yet we don\u2019t know about them?...absolutely\u2026and it\u2019s time to give them some credit\u2026this is part two of great unsung heroes of rock\u2026\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices