The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Mentor Books) - Softcover

Burckhardt, Jacob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451003403 ISBN 13: 9780451003409

Publisher: New American Library

Synopsis

the definitive history of the Italian renaissance.

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" The greatest single book on the history of Italy between 1350 and 1550." -- Hajo Holborn

The greatest single book on the history of Italy between 1350 and 1550. Hajo Holborn"

"The greatest single book on the history of Italy between 1350 and 1550."--Hajo Holborn

-The greatest single book on the history of Italy between 1350 and 1550.---Hajo Holborn

About the Author

Jacob Burckhard's Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy was first published almost a century ago, in 1860. Its forty-two-year-old author, professor of history and the history of art at the small Swiss university of his native Basel, was already known to the learned world as the writer of a highly original book, The Age of Constantine the Great (1853), and of the Cicerone (1855)* which was to guide generations of enthusiastic pilgrims to the artistic monuments of Italy. But the Civilization of the Renaissance became the real foundation of his world-wide fame. Peter Gay is Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University and director of the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. His many books include the three-volume The Enlightenment: An Interpretation; Schnitzler s Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture, 1815 1914; and Freud: A Life for Our Time.

Edition details

• Publisher: New American Library
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451003403
• ISBN 13: 9780451003409
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392