ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 2004
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

U dobrom stanju

The Civilisation of The Renaissance In Italy by Jacob Burckhardt

Folio Society First Impression No. 1212
Publisher Folio Society, London; 2004
Green Cloth Hardback, 451 pp
With colour photographs
Size 260 x 200mm, 1.9kg

No other work has had more impact on man`s conception of the past than Jacob Burckhardt`s The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy. The notion that between the 14th and 16th centuries in Italy a new and unique civilisation was born called `the Renaissance` seems so familiar, it is hard to believe that it originated in this book. It is to Burckhardt that we owe our abiding picture of the period, when not only the great city-states of Florence, Rome and Venice but even small ducal courts like Ferrara, Urbino and Mantua were sufficiently wealthy to commission great paintings, sculptures and buildings. Everywhere the competition for fame and power gave scope to the `cult of the individual`, as `the genius of the Italian people` - personified by `many-sided` men like Dante, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Michelangelo - fashioned a new way of thinking and living. The result was a hotbed of intrigue, violence, eccentricity and creative endeavour. Burckhardt`s stories leap off the Pope Leo X, patron of Raphael and lover of buffoonery, insisting that two monks and a cripple attend his feasts; Federigo, Duke of Urbino, the cultivated condottiere, who would `talk of sacred things through the grating with the abbess`; Cesare Borgia, wandering the streets of Rome looking `to gratify his insane thirst for blood`. . .

Originally published in 1860, this classic work has never been surpassed for its accessibility and boldness of thought. 480 Pages; Frontispiece and 32 pages of color plates; Size 10` x 7½`.

This follows the Middlemore translation with minor emendations. Chapter headings: Introduction; The Tyranny of the Fourteenth Century; The Tyranny of the Fifteenth Century; The Petty Tyrannies; The Greater Dynasties; The Opponents of Tyranny; The Republics: Venice and Florence; The Foreign Policy of the Italian States; War as a Work of Art; The Papacy and Its Dangers; The Italian State and the Individual; The Perfecting of the Individual; The Modern Idea of Fame; Modern Wit and Satire; Introductory Remarks; Rome, the City of Ruins; The Old Authors; Humanism in the Fourteenth Century; The Universities and Schools; The Furtherers of Humanism; The Reproduction of Antiquity: Latin Correspondence and Orations; Latin Treatises and History; General Latinisation of Culture; Modern Latin Poetry; Fall of the Humanists in the Sixteenth Century; Journeys of the Italians; Natural Science in Italy; The Discovery of Natural Beauty; The Discovery of Man – Spiritual Description in Poetry; Biography; The Description of Nations and Cities; Description of the Outward Man; Descriptions of Life in Movement; The Equalisation of Classes; The Outward Refinement of Life; Language as the Basis of Social Intercourse; The Higher Forms of Society; The Perfect Man of Society; The Position of Woman; Domestic Economy; The Festivals; Morality; Religion in Daily Life; Religion and the Spirit of the Renaissance; Mixture of Ancient and Modern Superstition; General Disintegration of Belief.



Civilizacija renesanse u Italiji - Jakob Burkhart