by Jacob Burckhardt · Modern Library · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780375759260
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«The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy» is the historical essay by Jacob Burckhardt, published by Modern Library in paperback (432 pages, in English).
The essay, originally published in 1860, is a classic study of the Italian Renaissance. Burckhardt analyses the artistic and cultural ferment of the period, the rise of humanism, the tensions between church and empire, and the emergence of the modern state and individual.
This Modern Library Classics edition includes the translation by S. G. C. Middlemore, with an introduction by Peter Gay and an epilogue by Hajo Holborn.
A reference work for students and readers of Italian Renaissance history, art, and culture.
Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt was a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields. His best known work is The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860). He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history. Sigfried 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."
