TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burckhardt,Jacob
AU  - Murray,Peter
AU  - Middlemore,S.G.C.
AU  - Burke,Peter
TI  - The civilization of the renaissance in italy
T2  - Penguin classics
SN  - 014044534X 
U1  - 945.05 B948C 1990 
PY  - 1990///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Penguin Classics
KW  - Renaissance Italy
KW  - Italy Civilization
KW  - Civilization
N2  - 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
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