The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Jacob Burckhardt's 1860 study, is the foundational historical work that first framed the Italian Renaissance as a distinct cultural era with its own religious and intellectual character. Its strength is that it remains the field's own point of departure, cited and argued with by every subsequent generation of Renaissance historians. Its limit is its age, over a century and a half, and its era's own historiographical assumptions, which later scholarship has substantially revised; no publisher is given here because this record is not tied to any one of the work's many subsequent editions and translations.
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Jacob Burckhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, 1860, the top tier reflecting the foundational historical work that first framed the Italian Renaissance as a distinct cultural era with its own religious and intellectual character, still the field's own point of departure. Its limit is its age, over a century and a half, and its era's own historiographical assumptions, which later scholarship has substantially revised. NotesJacob Burckhardt's foundational historical study of the civilization of the Italian Renaissance, 1860.
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AuthorJacob Burckhardt
Publication Year1860
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