books.google.nl - For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts the...http://books.google.nl/books/about/The_Civilization_of_the_Renaissance_in_I.html?hl=nl&id=UBhWJ3FKnSEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
