The Lost Italian Renaissance
Subtitle: Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780801883842
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; History of ideas, intellectual history; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Neuroscience; Italy - History; Renaissance - History; History; History - General History; History: World; Italy; Renaissance; Europe - Italy; European - General; History / Europe / General
First sentence: HOW CAN IT BE that the nineteenth century's most influential historian of the Italian Renaissance, Jacob Burckhardt, could write in such a way concerning Renaissance humanism, the central intellectual movement of the period?