![]() It is, among other things, one of the most passionate homages ever paid by a northern European to southern Europe, and yet herein lies its strangeness. His book drips with love of Italy and Italians. Darwin sailed to the Galápagos Burckhardt merely went to Italy. The study of the Renaissance can no more forget Burckhardt than biology can leave Darwin behind.īoth classics began in journeys. These two great 19th-century books are still at the living heart of their subjects. ![]() I believe this anniversary is as important as last year's of Darwin's On the Origin of Species. O ne hundred and fifty years ago the Swiss art lover and historian Jacob Burckhardt published his master work, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. ![]()
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