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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

By Jacob Burckhardt

Book information

Publisher
Dover Publications
Year
2012
ISBN
0486121518, 9780486121512
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
541 kB (553662 bytes)
Series
9780486121512
Edition
Kindle Edition
Pages
370\0
Time added
2021-02-24 10:22:33

Description

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice and Rome as providing the seeds of a new form of society, and traces the rise of the creative individual, from Dante to Michelangelo. A fascinating description of an era of cultural transition, this nineteenth-century masterpiece was to become the most influential interpretation of the Italian Renaissance, and anticipated ideas such as Nietzsche's concept of the 'Ubermensch' in its portrayal of an age of genius.

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