The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860-1930
(Part of the Ideas in Context Series)
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Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Germany's bourgeois elites became enthralled by the civilization of Renaissance Italy. As their own country entered a phase of critical socioeconomic changes, German historians and writers reinvented the Italian Renaissance as the onset of a heroic modernity: a glorious dawn that ushered in an age of secular individualism, imbued with ruthless vitality and a neo-pagan zest for beauty. The Italian Renaissance...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1108468152
ISBN13:9781108468152
Release Date:August 2018
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:342 Pages
Weight:1.01 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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