The Civilisation of the Period of the Renaissance in Italy
Volume 1
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- Author: Jacob Burckhardt
- Translator: S. G. C. Middlemore
- Date Published: December 2014
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108079945
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On several journeys to Italy in the mid-nineteenth century, the Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt (1818–97) saw in the figures and events of the Italian Renaissance certain traits that he believed to be mirrored in the politics of his own day, notably some aspects of 'an unbridled egoism, outraging every right, and killing every germ of a healthier culture'. Revolutionary in his all-encompassing and unflinching examination of the Italian Renaissance, Burckhardt saw developments in statecraft and war as giving rise to the more publicised artistic progress of the era. First published in 1860, this work is considered to be his magnum opus on the subject, and is here reissued in the accessible two-volume English translation of 1878 by S. G. C. Middlemore. In Volume 1, Burckhardt considers three key themes: the state as a work of art, the development of the individual, and the revival of antiquity in education and philosophy.
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- Date Published: December 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108079945
- length: 416 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.53kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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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