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The civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
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Jacob Burckhardt |
Jacob Burckhardt was born in 1818 in Basel, Switzerland. He studied history at the University of Berlin and taught art history and the Italian Renaissance in Berlin and Basel. His essay, as he called… |
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De hominis dignitate
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola,Patricia Mari-Fabre |
The Oration on the Dignity of Man (De hominis dignitate) is a famous public discourse pronounced in 1486 by Pico della Mirandola, an Italian scholar and philosopher of the Renaissance. It has been ca… |
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Fables
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Roger L'Estrange,Percy J. Billinghurst,Joseph Jacobs,Aesop |
The world's oldest known collection of fables and folk tales. Some of the stories credited to Aesop, a Greek slave who lived in about the sixth century BCE, are known in every corner of the globe, su… |
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The Renaissance
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Sarah Halliwell |
Defines the main characteristics of early, high, and northern Renaissance art and literature, focusing on thirteen artists, including Uccello, Michelangelo, and Brueghel, and three authors: Dante, Ch… |
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The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetry
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Walter Pater |
Walter Pater’s Studies in the History of the Renaissance was one of the most talked about books in nineteenth-century Britain, and it remains a work of unusual importance to anyone interested in art … |
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