The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

Name: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Author: Jacob Burckhardt

by Jacob Burckhardt

Historical analysis of Renaissance Italy's cultural, artistic, and political flowering

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Jacob Burckhardt

Burckhardt transformed the study of the Renaissance with a book that invented the concept of the Renaissance as a cultural period. His pessimistic philosophy of history and skepticism toward progress was prophetic of 20th-century disaster.

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