The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860-1930

by Martin A. Ruehl

Book Overview

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"