3/9/2024 0 Comments Jacob burckhardt medievalFinally, Burckhardt details the science, society and religion of Italy during those impressive years between 13. He builds on this, describing the development of the individual, Italy's relationship with its Classical past. Burckhardt first describes the state in Italy and carefully describes the rise of the despots, the energy of the republics, and the push and the pull of the papacy. Burckhardt spends nearly 400 pages carefully detailing the Tuscan nest of the Renaissance that embraced, protected, and incubated the great Italian artists of the Rinascimento (Giotto to Michelangelo, etc). Often, when writing about the Renaissance there is tendency among experts/writers/historians to focus on the well-plumed bird and ignore the nest. A nest as beautiful as the bird(s) it bore
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