CIVILIZATION OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY hbdj history

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This book is one of the best accounts of the colorful period of Italian life and thought between 1350 and 1550. Here is a brilliant panorama of Renaissance life -- rich in its detailed account of the arts, fashions, manners, and thought of the time -- sparkling and vigorous in the spirit of the new modern age. But if Jacob Burckhardt knew well how to convey the color of the period, he was also able to give generations of readers more profound insights into the relationship between the individual and the forces around him. The combination makes this book one of the few great classics of history.

CONTENTS:

Introduction by Hajo Holborn, Yale University

• Introduction
• Despots of the Fourteenth Century
• Despots of the Fifteenth Century
• The Smaller Despotisms
• The Greater Dynasties
• The Opponents of the Despots
• The Republics: Venice and Florence
• Foreign Policy
• War as a Work of Art
• The Papacy
• Patriotism

Part Two - The Development of the Individual

• Personality
• Glory
• Ridicule and Wit

Part Three - The Revival of Antiquity

• Introductory
• The Ruins of Rome
• The Classics
• The Humanists
• Universities and Schools
• Propagators of Antiquity
• Epistolography: Latin Orators
• The Treatise, and History In Latin
• Antiquity as the Common Source
• Neo-Latin Poetry
• Fall of the Humanists In the Sixteenth Century

Part Four - The Discovery of the World and of Man

• Journeys of the Italians
• The Natural Sciences In Italy
• Discovery of the Beauty of Landscape
• Discovery of Man
• Biography In the Middle Ages
• Description of the Outward Man
• Description of Human Life

Part Five - Society and Festivals

• Equality of Classes
• Costumes and Fashions
• Language and Society
• Social Etiquette
• Education of the 'Cortigiano'
• Music
• Equality of Men and Women
• Domestic Life
• Festivals

Part Six - Morality and Religion

• Morality and Judgement
• Morality and Immorality
• Religion In Daily Life
• Strength of the Old Faith
• Religion and the Spirit of the Renaissance
• Influence of Ancient Superstition
• General Spirit of Doubt

Index

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