![]() This "Copyright" Edition is the authoritative presentation in English of the text as Burckhardt left it at his death in 1897. ![]() Shockingly fresh condition for such a rabidly consulted text in the mid-century West. Some light patina and minor rubbing to tips, otherwise very clean and sharp. 421 bold black & white photogravure illustrations on 239 plates. 4to, finished kahki cloth, gilt stamped lettering. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. This concept of the Renaissance has been much discussed, as has Burckhardt's cultural pessimism. ![]() ![]() This 19th-century survey of the Renaissance propounds the view that it was at this time that man became aware of himself as a spiritual individual. 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. 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. 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. ![]()
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