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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Classics)
by: Jacob Burckhardt

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 945.05
EAN: 9780140445343
ISBN: 014044534X
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: June 28, 1990
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics
Sales Rank: 26640

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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Burckhardt the Prescient Historian
For much of the last 139 years, Jacob Burckhardt's work has been dismissed as too "Nineteenth Century" for serious study: more literature than serious history. So much the pity. What Burckhardt left us in The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy is a magisterial, thematic, understanding of the Italian Renaissance that is far more 1990's in its observations and human understandings than its original 1860's. It is a shame that Burckhardt's famous pupil, Nietzsche, didn't learn a little more balance and discretion at his elder's feet. This book is a joy to read. Like Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, this work shows us how history can engage the spirit, and how far off the mark some modern historians have ... Read More:

 



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