La cultura del Renacimiento en Italia

For Jacob Burckhardt, it is in Renaissance Italy when and where both individualism and competition to achieve fame flourish, elements that radically transformed science, the arts and politics. Reconstructing the atmosphere of the Italian states of Florence, Venice and Rome, and tracing the lives of figures such as Dante, Pico della Mirandola, Machiavelli, Petrarch, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Caesar Borgia, Alexander VI and Leo X, the famous Swiss historian shows the starting point of what the modern world will become. In this masterpiece, where History leaves aside historicism and its accumulation of data, Burckhardt breaks with historiographic sectorialism and offers us a vivid and fascinating image of an era of cultural transition. Drawing on Sociology, Political Science or Art History among other disciplines, Renaissance Culture in Italy represents the most influential interpretation of the Renaissance spirit. This edition has a prologue by Peter Burke, the preface to our first edition written by Fernando Bouza and, following the pioneering work of Burckhardt -where the authentic contemplation of an era tends to be interdisciplinary-, contains a series of illustrations that outline this essential story about the dawn of Modernity.