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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
This authoritative study by a distinguished scholar presents a brilliant panorama of Italian Renaissance life, explaining how and why the period constituted a cultural revolution. It traces the influences of classical antiquity on the age's thinkers a
Die "Weltgeschichtlichen Betrachtungen" von Jacob Burckhardt sind ein Füllhorn der Weltweisheit und einer der großartigsten Texte über Geschichte, die jemals verfasst wurden. Ursprünglich hervorgegangen aus Vorlesungen des berühmten Historikers,
In the present work it has been the author's design to describe the remarkable half century from the accession of Diocletian to the death of Constantine in its quality as a period of transition. What was intended was not a history of the life and reig