The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Title page of the Grosse Illustrierte Phaidon-Ausgabe
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| Author | Jacob Burckhardt |
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| Original title | Die Cultur a der Renaissance in Italien |
| Translator | S. G. C. Middlemore |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Language | German |
| aKultur in modern German. | |
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (German: Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien) is an 1860 work on the Italian Renaissance by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Together with his History of the Renaissance in Italy (Die Geschichte der Renaissance in Italien; 1867) it is counted among the classics of Renaissance historiography.
An English translation was produced by S.G.C. Middlemore in two volumes, London 1878. Its scholarly judgements are considered to have been largely justified by subsequent research according to historians including Desmond Seward and art historians notably Kenneth Clark.
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy is divided into six parts:
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