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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 ...
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy was the most influential interpretation of the Italian Renaissance in the 19th century and is still widely read. In connection with this work Burckhardt may have been the first historian to use the term " modernity " in a clearly defined, academic context. [ 7 ]
Renaissance culture later spread to Venice, the heart of a Mediterranean empire and in control of the trade routes with the east since its participation in the Crusades and following the journeys of Marco Polo between 1271 and 1295. Thus Italy renewed contact with the remains of ancient Greek culture, which provided humanist scholars with new ...
The Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) in his The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860), by contrast, defined the Renaissance as the period between Giotto and Michelangelo in Italy, that is, the 14th to mid-16th centuries.
The Italian Renaissance — the Renaissance cultural period during the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries in Italy The main article for this category is Italian Renaissance . Subcategories
The Renaissance and Reformation in Northern Europe. (with M. McGlynn) University of Toronto Press, 2014. (288 pp.) A Short History of the Italian Renaissance. University of Toronto Press. 2013. (419 pp.) The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance. Revised, 2nd edition. University of Toronto Press. 2011. (xx + 314 pp.) Humanism and the Northern ...
Italy was the main centre of the Renaissance, whose flourishing of the arts, architecture, literature, science, historiography, and political theory influenced all of Europe. [ 92 ] [ 93 ] The Renaissance represented a "rebirth" not only of economy and urbanization but also of arts and science, fuelled by rediscoveries of ancient texts and the ...
Francesco Matarazzo (1443 - 1518), Italian historian of the European Renaissance Francesco Matarazzo (1443 – August 21, 1518) was an Italian historian of the European Renaissance . His fame rests largely on his masterwork Chronicles of the City of Perugia 1492-1503 which has become a primary source for many later historians of the Italian ...