The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

Jacob Burckhardt with S. G. C. Middlemore (Translator)

400 pages • first pub 1860 (editions)

nonfiction art history adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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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 a...

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