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  The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Penguin Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Jacob Burckhardt, Introduction by Peter Burke, Translated by S.G.C. Middlemore

  

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  Short Description for The Civilization of the Renaissance in ItalyThis title was Burckhardt's major contribution to cultural history and was first published in 1860. The work covers the period from the birth of Dante to the death of Michelangelo, and is divided into 6 sections, covering a whole range of topics.
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  • Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
  • Published: 04 December 1990
  • Format: Paperback 416 pages
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  • Categories: Art History: Renaissance | History Of Ideas | European History | Early History: C 500 To C 1450/1500 | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700
  • ISBN 13: 9780140445343 ISBN 10: 014044534X
  • Sales rank: 108,005

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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 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.