Books
Jacob Burckhardt

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

Classic 19th century history book. According to Wikipedia: «Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (May 25, 1818, Basel, Switzerland — August 8, 1897, Basel) was a historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history, albeit in a form very different from how cultural history is conceived and studied in academia today. Siegfried Giedion described Burckhardt's achievement in the following terms: “The great discoverer of the age of the Renaissance, he first showed how a period should be treated in its entirety, with regard not only for its painting, sculpture and architecture, but for the social institutions of its daily life as well.”Burckhardt's best known work is The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860).
545 printed pages
Original publication
2018
Publication year
2018
Publisher
Seltzer Books
Have you already read it? How did you like it?
👍👎

Quotes

  • Dasha Kotenkohas quoted7 years ago
    him lord of the city. At last one of them rose and said, ‘Let us kill him and then worship him as our patron saint’. And so they did, following the example set by the Roman senate with Romulus. In fact, the Condottieri had reason to fear none so much as their employers;
  • Dasha Kotenkohas quoted7 years ago
    An old story—one of those which are true and not true, everywhere and nowhere—describes it as follows: The citizens of a certain town (Siena seems to be meant) had once an officer in their service who had freed them from foreign aggression; daily they took counsel how to recompense him, and concluded that no reward in their power was great enough, not even if they ma
fb2epub
Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)