Jacob Christian Burckhardt (1818–1897) was a Swiss historian of art and culture. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, published in 1860, is his best-known work, and remained for many years the classic analysis of the Renaissance.
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This great work redefined our sense of the European past, wholly reinterpreting what has since been known simply as the Italian Renaissance. Within the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt finds the first stirrings of the... SEE MORE