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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Classics) by: Jacob Burckhardt List Price: £11.99 City Travel Guides Price: £7.79 You Save: £4.20 (35%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 945.05 EAN: 9780140445343 ISBN: 014044534X Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: June 28, 1990 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Sales Rank: 12106 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Burckhardt the Prescient HistorianFor much of the last 139 years, Jacob Burckhardt's work has been dismissed as too "Nineteenth Century" for serious study: more literature than serious history. So much the pity. What Burckhardt left us in The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy is a magisterial, thematic, understanding of the Italian Renaissance that is far more 1990's in its observations and human understandings than its original 1860's. It is a shame that Burckhardt's famous pupil, Nietzsche, didn't learn a little more balance and discretion at his elder's feet. This book is a joy to read. Like Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, this work shows us how history can engage the spirit, and how far off the mark some modern historians have ... Read More: |
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