The Civilisation of the Period of the Renaissance in Italy: Volume 1 - Brossura

Burckhardt, Jacob

 
9781108079945: The Civilisation of the Period of the Renaissance in Italy: Volume 1

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Burckhardt's 1860 magnum opus on the development of the Italian Renaissance, here reissued in the two-volume English translation of 1878.

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Descrizione del libro

Revolutionary in his all-encompassing view of the Italian Renaissance, Jacob Burckhardt (1818–97) saw developments in statecraft and war as the cause of more publicised artistic progress. First published in 1860, this work is considered his magnum opus and is reissued here in the 1878 two-volume English translation.

Contenuti

Preface; Part I. The State as a Work of Art: 1. Introduction; 2. The tyranny of the fourteenth century; 3. The tyranny of the fifteenth century; 4. The petty tyrannies; 5. The greater dynasties; 6. The opponents of tyranny; 7. The republics: Venice and Florence; 8. Foreign policy of the Italian states; 9. War as a work of art; 10. The papacy and its dangers; Part II. The Development of the Individual: 1. The Italian state and the individual; 2. The perfecting of the individual; 3. The modern idea of fame; 4. Modern wit and satire; Part III. The Revival of Antiquity: 1. Introductory remarks; 2. Rome, the city of ruins; 3. The old authors; 4. Humanism in the fourteenth century; 5. The universities and schools; 6. The furtherers of humanism; 7. The reproduction of antiquity; 8. Latin treatises and history; 9. General Latinisation of culture; 10. Modern Latin poetry; 11. Fall of the humanists in the sixteenth century.

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