Abstract
Abstract David Hume observes in his Treatise of Human Nature that probably more than half our understanding of the world is formed not by what we perceive but by what we are told about it1 - I, ix, ‘Of the effects of other relations and other habits’, ad finem. My thanks are due in particular to Michael Baxandall, Charles Hope, and Clare Robertson for tneir help and discussion of this essay. Our idea ofthe Renaissance is based on a simple model, instituted by the period itself, namely the revival of antiquity. Having learnt this, we never discard it. There may be much discussion and qualification of the predicate, but the notion is an historical absolute. It is also a nonsense, for the simple reason that antiquity did not exist at the time of the Renaissance.
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