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Subject(s)

• Renaissance—Italy—Historiography [Browse]
• Historiography—Germany—History—19th century [Browse]
• Historiography—Germany—History—20th century [Browse]
• Renaissance in literature [Browse]
• German literature—19th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• German literature—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Italy—Foreign public opinion, German [Browse]
• Germany—Intellectual life—19th century [Browse]
• Germany—Intellectual life—20th century [Browse]

Series

Ideas in context ; 105. [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-307) and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Quattrocento Florence and what it means to be modern
• Ruthless renaissance: Burckhardt, Nietzsche, and the violent birth of the modern self
• Death in Florence: Thomas Mann and the ideologies of Renaissancismus
• ʻThe first modern man on the throneʼ: Reich, race, and rule in Ernst Kantorowicz's Frederick the Second
• The Renaissance reclaimed: Hans Baron's case for Burgerhumanismus
• Conclusion: The waning of the Renaissance-Death and afterlife of an idea.

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ISBN

• 9781107036994 (hardback)
• 1107036992 (hardback)

LCCN

2014040270

OCLC

900634278

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