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.
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 |
Publisher | Schweighauser'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
a Kultur in modern German. |
According to Denys Hay:
Its scholarly judgements are considered to have been largely justified by subsequent research according to historians including Desmond Seward and art historians such as Kenneth Clark.[citation needed]
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy is divided into six parts: