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This 19th-century survey of the Renaissance propounds the view that it was at this time that man became aware of himself as a spiritual individual. This concept of the Renaissance has been much discussed, as has Burckhardt's cultural pessimism.

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Jacob Burckhardt (1818-97) was one of the greatest historians of classical and Renaissance art, architecture and culture. The Greeks and Greek Civilization describes, in detail, the lives of the ancient Greeks and the origins of their culture. This book has never appeared before in English.

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Translated by SGC Middlemore and with an introduction by Peter Gay, this work is a definitive history of the Italian Renaissance.

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