Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

Jacob Burckhardt

3.93/5 (2627 ratings)

Read Now Download Now

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice and Rome as providing the seeds of a new form of society, and traces the rise of the creative individual, from Dante to Michelangelo. A fascinating description of an era of cultural transition, this nineteenth-century masterpiece was to become the most influential interpretation of the Italian Renaissance, and anticipated ideas such as Nietzsche's concept of the 'Ubermensch' in its portrayal of an age of genius.

Format:

Pages:: 400 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: Reissue

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 014044534X

ISBN13:: 9780140445343

kindle Asin:: B0875Y77SG

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

Jacob Burckhardt

3.93/5 (2627 ratings)

Read Download

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice and Rome as providing the seeds of a new form of society, and traces the rise of the creative individual, from Dante to Michelangelo. A fascinating description of an era of cultural transition, this nineteenth-century masterpiece was to become the most influential interpretation of the Italian Renaissance, and anticipated ideas such as Nietzsche's concept of the 'Ubermensch' in its portrayal of an age of genius.

Format:

Pages:: 400 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: Reissue

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 014044534X

ISBN13:: 9780140445343

kindle Asin:: B0875Y77SG

More Books

On the Genealogy of Morals

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty

Georges Dumézil

Untimely Meditations

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

Søren Kierkegaard

Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana

Hans Henning Ørberg

The Birth of Tragedy

Friedrich Nietzsche

Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

Oswald Spengler

Dionysus: Myth and Cult

Walter F. Otto

ABC of Reading

Ezra Pound

Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche: The Struggle with the Daemon

Stefan Zweig

The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)

Plato

The Waning of the Middle Ages

Johan Huizinga