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Title: The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Condition: New
Author: Jacob Burckhardt
Translator: S. Middlemore
Contributor: Peter Burke (Introduction by), S. Middlemore (Translated by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 014044534X
EAN: 9780140445343
ISBN: 9780140445343
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Genre: Arts & Photography
Topic: Society & Culture, History
Release Date: 06/28/1990
Description: 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.
Language: German, English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 18mm
Item Weight: 287g
Release Year: 1990
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