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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jacob Burckhardt
Creators: Peter Burke, S.g.c. Middlemore
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 19984
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 400
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 014044534X
Dewey Decimal Number: 945.05
EAN: 9780140445343
ASIN: 014044534X
Publication Date: June 28, 1990
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Burckhardt the Prescient Historian July 27, 1999
36 out of 40 found this review helpful
For 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 gone with their more "scholarly" work.
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