Abstract
Rarely has a scholar exercised such influence over the interpretation of an historical period as Jakob Burckhardt on the Italian Renaissance. First published over a century ago, his essay (Versuch) advanced a set of theses that have stood behind serious scholarship ever since. Burckhardt developed clearly the characteristic themes of Renaissance historiography — the state as a work of art, the development of the individual, the revival of antiquity, and so forth — and he molded them into an engaging, impressionistic portrait of Renaissance Italy as the first manifestation of modern civilization.
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