Jacob Burckhardt

The Civilisation of the Period of the Renaissance in Italy - Volume 1

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9781108079945
• ISBN-10: 1108079946
• Artikelnr.: 41608959

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. The State as a Work of Art: 1. Introduction
2. The tyranny of the fourteenth century
3. The tyranny of the fifteenth century
4. The petty tyrannies
5. The greater dynasties
6. The opponents of tyranny
7. The republics: Venice and Florence
8. Foreign policy of the Italian states
9. War as a work of art
10. The papacy and its dangers
Part II. The Development of the Individual: 1. The Italian state and the individual
2. The perfecting of the individual
3. The modern idea of fame
4. Modern wit and satire
Part III. The Revival of Antiquity: 1. Introductory remarks
2. Rome, the city of ruins
3. The old authors
4. Humanism in the fourteenth century
5. The universities and schools
6. The furtherers of humanism
7. The reproduction of antiquity
8. Latin treatises and history
9. General Latinisation of culture
10. Modern Latin poetry
11. Fall of the humanists in the sixteenth century.