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The
Civilisation of the
Renaissance
in Italy

The
Civilisation of the
Renaissance
in Italy

by
Jacob Burckhardt

First published by George Allen & Unwin LTD.

This edition first published in 2019 by Routledge
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THE
CIVILISATION OF THE
RENAISSANCE
IN ITALY

By

JACOB BURCKHARDT

AUTHORISED TRANSLATION BY
S. G. C. MIDDLEMORE

LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD.
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

The model of what such a work ought to be. Moreover, it has been admirably translated by Mr. Middlemore with the addition of some fresh matter communicated by the German savant to his Italian translator. He has condensed an immense mass of erudition and miscellaneous research into a moderately sized volume. In the fictions of men of genius we have seldom met with more picturesque descriptions of life and manners, and the ample references in the footnotes assure us that the descriptions are strictly founded upon facts. Nor does he confine himself to the rise and progress of the Renaissance. What is at least as interesting is the elaborate picture of the medislvalism which preceded it, a sombre and semi-barbarous survival of the depressing gloom of the dark ages.Times.

The book is not an easy one to do justice to in a short notice. It is so closely reasoned out, so full of well-digested matter, as to make it difficult to disconnect any passage from its context. But enough has been said to show that no one wishing to study this period of history should fail to read Dr. Burckhardts work.Speaker.

It is not too much to say that we do not know of any book within the same limits which treats of the Renaissance period with so much thoroughness of detail, with such tightness of grasp of the general principles for which the Renaissance stood, and with such a wealth of illustration as the volume before us.Educational Times.

FIRST EDITION (Two Yols.)	1878
SECOND EDITION (One Vol.)	1890
THIRD IMPRESSION	1892
FOURTH IMPRESSION	1898
FIFTH IMPRESSION	1904
SIXTH IMPRESSION	1909
SEVENTH IMPRESSION	1914
EIGHTH IMPRESSION	1921
NINTH IMPRESSION	1928

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN AT
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, ABERDEEN

PREFACE.

_____________

DR. BURCKHARDTS work on the Renaissance in Italy is too well known, not only to students of the period, but now to a wider circle of readers, for any introduction to be necessary. The increased interest which has of late years, in England, been taken in this and kindred subjects, and the welcome which has been given to the works of other writers upon them, encourage me to hope that in publishing this translation I am meeting a want felt by some who are either unable to read German at all, or to whom an English version will save a good deal of time and trouble.

The translation is made from the third edition of the original, recently published in Germany, with slight additions to the text, and large additions to the notes, by Dr. LUDWIG GEIGER, of Berlin. It also contains some fresh matter communicated by Dr. BURCKHARDT to Professor DIEGO VALBUSA of Mantua, the Italian translator of the book. To all three gentlemen my thanks are due for courtesy shown, or help given to me in the course of my work.

In a few cases, where Dr. GEIGERS view differs from that taken by Dr. BURCKHARDT, I have called attention to the fact by bracketing Dr. GEIGERS opinion and adding his initials.

THE TRANSLATOR.

CONTENTS.

____________

PART I.
THE STATE AS A WORK OF ART

CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER II.
THE TYRANNY OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.

CHAPTER III.
THE TYRANNY OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

CHAPTER IV.
THE PETTY TYRANNIES.

CHAPTER V.
THE GREATER DYNASTIES.

CHAPTER VI.
THE OPPONENTS OF TYRANNY.

CHAPTER VII.
THE REPUBLICS: VENICE AND FLORENCE.

CHAPTER VIII.
FOREIGN POLICY OF THE ITALIAN STATES.

CHAPTER IX.
WAR AS A WORE OF ART.

CHAPTER X.
THE PAPACY AND ITS DANGERS.

____________

PART II.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL.

CHAPTER I.
THE ITALIAN STATE AND THE INDIVIDUAL.

CHAPTER II.
THE PERFECTING OF THE INDIVIDUAL.

CHAPTER III.
THE MODERN IDEA OF FAME.

CHAPTER IV.
MODERN WIT AND SATIRE.

____________

PART III.
THE REVIVAL OF ANTIQUITY.

CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

CHAPTER II.
ROME, THE CITY OF RUINS.

CHAPTER III.
THE OLD AUTHORS.

CHAPTER IV.
HUMANISM IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.

CHAPTER V.
THE UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS.

CHAPTER VI.
THE FURTHERERS OF HUMANISM.

CHAPTER VII.
THE REPRODUCTION OF ANTIQUITY. LATIN CORRESPONDENCE AND ORATIONS.

CHAPTER VIII.
LATIN TREATISES AND HISTORY.

CHAPTER IX.
GENERAL LATINISATION OF CULTURE.

CHAPTER X.
MODERN LATIN POETRY.

CHAPTER XI.
FALL OF THE HUMANISTS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

PART IV.
THE DISCOVERY OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN.

CHAPTER I.
JOURNEYS OF THE ITALIANS.

CHAPTER II.
NATURAL SCIENCE IN ITALY.

CHAPTER III.
THE DISCOVERY OF NATURAL BEAUTY.

CHAPTER IV.
THE DISCOVERY OF MAN.SPIRITUAL DESCRIPTION IN POETRY.

CHAPTER V.
BIOGRAPHY.

CHAPTER VI.
THE DESCRIPTION OF NATIONS AND CITIES.

CHAPTER VII.
DESCRIPTION OF THE OUTWARD MAN.

CHAPTER VIII.
DESCRIPTIONS OF LIFE IN MOVEMENT.

____________

PART V.
SOCIETY AND FESTIVALS.

CHAPTER I.
THE EQUALISATION OF CLASSES.

CHAPTER II.
OUTWARD REFINEMENT OF LIFE.

CHAPTER III.
LANGUAGE AS THE BASIS OF SOCIAL INTERCOURSE.

CHAPTER IV.
THE HIGHER FORMS OF SOCIETY.

CHAPTER V.
THE PERFECT MAN OF SOCIETY.

CHAPTER VI.
THE POSITION OF WOMEN.

CHAPTER VII.
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

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