| | The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Landmarks in Art History) |  | Author: Jacob Burckhardt
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 462
ISBN: 0714821403
Dewey Decimal Number: 945.05
EAN: 9780714821405
ASIN: 0714821403
Publication Date: August 20, 1981
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Condition: Publisher: Phaidon Press LtdDate of Publication: 1981Binding: Paperback,ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a reading copy. Ships within 24 hours. pp.Description: Paperback,ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a reading copy. Ships within 24 hours. pp.
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Burckhardt the Prescient Historian July 27, 1999
36 out of 40 found this review helpful
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 gone with their more "scholarly" work.
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