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PENGUIN(@)CLASsics JACOB BURCKHARDT THE CIVILIZATION OF THE RENAISSA aiy OY /; r z a“! ] Ms ey, a a . FPai ) B! ee IH | o re ee FS =F eh 1) ! . eihe >—S || = e) #2} i a = 7 ee e = = i i = = ", = = " = e 2 r n= t e a 4 + pe * 2. s ABR 1‘ 4 a . l 2 e ~ w - i S e r a e S PENGUIN CLASSICS THE CIVILIZATIO.Y OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY JacosB BuRCKHARDT was born in Basel in 1818. He intended to join the Church and studied theology before losing his faith. Between 1839 and 1842 he studied at the University of Berlin, devoting himself to history, and attended seminars given by Leopold von Ranke, the most famous living historian of the time. Burckhardt took his doctorate in 1843 and lectured at the University of Basel. In 1853 he published The Age of Constantine the Great, which was followed two years later by a historical guide to the art treasures of Italy, The Cicerone. These two books won Burckhardt a chair, and in 1855 he became Professor of Architecture and History at the Zurich Polytechnic. While there he wrote The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. Returning to Basel in 1858, he remained there for the rest of his life, lecturing at the university; in his own words, he ‘lived exclusively for [his] work as a teacher’. He published little, apart from The Architecture of the Renaissance in Italy (1867). After his death in 1897 his remaining works, mainly lecture notes, were published. Rubens, Essays on the History of Art in Italy and Cultural History of Greece appeared in 1898, followed by the Reflections on World History (1905) and the Historical Fragments (1929). Peter Burke is Reader in Cultural History, University of Cambridge, Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and author of The Italian Renaissance, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe and History and Social Theory. From 1980 until his death in 1992, Peter Murray was Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at the University of London. He taught at the Courtauld Institute from 1949 to 1967 and served there as the first Witt Librarian, until he succeeded Sir Nikolaus Pevsner in the chair of Art History at Birkbeck College. He was President of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain and Chairman of the Society of Renaissance Studies. He published an annotated edition of Burck- hardt’s Architecture of the Italian Renaissance in 1985 (Penguin 1987) and his own books include The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance (third edition, 1986) and Renaissance Architecture, as well as The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists with his wife Linda (the sixth edition of which was published in 1989), with whom he also wrote The Art of the Renaissance, first published in 1963. JACOB BURCKHARDT THE CIVILIZATION OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY Translated by S. G. C. Middlemore With a new Introduction by Peter Burke and Notes by Peter Murray PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 STZ, England Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd, Private Bag 102902, NSMC, Auckland, New Zealand Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England This edition first published 1990 11 13 15 17 19 20 18 16 14 12 Introduction copyright © Peter Burke, 1990 Notes copyright © Peter Murray, 1990 All rights reserved Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc Filmset in 10/12 pt Monophoto Bembo Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: Peter Burke Further Reading THE CIVILIZATION OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY PART I The State as a Work of Art Introduction Despots of the Fourteenth Century 22 Despots of the Fifteenth Century 27 The Smaller Despotisms 35 The Greater Dynasties 40 The Opponents of the Despots $3 The Republics: Venice and Florence $7 Foreign Policy 73 War as a Work of Art 79 The Papacy 81 Patriotism 96 PART II The Development of the Individual Personality 98 Glory 104 Ridicule and Wit 110 PART Ill The Revival of Antiquity Introductory 120 vi CIVILIZATION OF THE RENAISSANCE The Ruins of Rome . 123 The Classics 129 The Humanists 135 Universities and Schools 140 Propagators of Antiquity 143 Reproduction of Antiquity: Letter-Writing and Latin Speeches 1$1 The Treatise, and History in Latin 1$9 Antiquity as the Common Source 163 Neo-Latin Poetry 167 Fall of the Humanists in the Sixteenth Century 177 PART IV The Discovery of the World and of Man Journeys of the Italians 185 The Natural Sciences in Italy 187 Discovery of the Beauty of Landscape 192 Discovery of Man 198 Biography in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance 213 Description of the Outward Man 222 Description of Human Life 225 PART V Society and Festivals Equality of Classes 230 Costumes and Fashions 235 Language and Society 240 Social Etiquette 243 Education of the Cortigiano 246 Music 248 Equality of Men and Women 250 Domestic Life 253 Festivals 256 Vii PART VI Morality and Religion Morality and Judgement 271 Morality and Immorality 272 Religion in Daily Life 289 Strength of the Old Faith 306 Religion and the Spirit of the Renaissance 312 Influence of Ancient Superstition 323 General Spirit of Doubt 344 Nores- Peter Murray 353 Full titles of works most frequently quoted by Burckhardt 368 INDEX 371
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