The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
1878
Burckhardt's 1860 study of the Italian Renaissance: the despotisms and republics as works of art, the discovery of the individual, the revival of antiquity, and the festivals and morals of Italian life, in Middlemore's translation.
- Preface
- Part I The State as a Work of Art
- Chapter I Introduction
- Chapter II The Tyranny of the Fourteenth Century
- Chapter III The Tyranny of the Fifteenth Century
- Chapter IV The Petty Tyrannies
- Chapter V The Greater Dynasties
- Chapter VI The Opponents of Tyranny
- Chapter VII The Republics: Venice and Florence
- Chapter VIII The Foreign Policy of the Italian States
- Chapter IX War as a Work of Art
- Chapter X The Papacy and Its Dangers
- Part II The Development of the Individual
- Part III The Revival of Antiquity
- Chapter I Introductory Remarks
- Chapter II Rome, the City of Ruins
- Chapter III The Old Authors
- Chapter IV Humanism in the Fourteenth Century
- Chapter V The Universities and Schools
- Chapter VI The Furtherers of Humanism
- Chapter VII The Reproduction of Antiquity: Latin Correspondence and Orations
- Chapter VIII Latin Treatises and History
- Chapter IX General Latinisation of Culture
- Chapter X Modern Latin Poetry
- Chapter XI Fall of the Humanists in the Sixteenth Century
- Part IV The Discovery of the World and of Man
- Chapter I Journeys of the Italians
- Chapter II Natural Science in Italy
- Chapter III The Discovery of Natural Beauty
- Chapter IV The Discovery of Man. Spiritual Description in Poetry
- Chapter V Biography
- Chapter VI The Description of Nations and Cities
- Chapter VII Description of the Outward Man
- Chapter VIII Descriptions of Life in Movement
- Part V Society and Festivals
- Part VI Morality and Religion