The Civilization of the Renaissance in ItalySwan Sonnenschein & Company, Limited, 1904 - 559 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
Alfonso ancient antiquity appeared Arch Aretino artistic astrology Bandello beauty Boccaccio Borgia Cæsar Cardinal character Church classical Comp Condottieri Corio court culture dæmons Dante death despots ducats Duke Emperor Epist Europe fact fame famous Ferrara fifteenth century Fiorent Florence Florentine fourteenth century Francesco Franco Sacchetti German Giannozzo Manetti Giovanni Greek Gregorovius honour House of Este human humanists influence Italian Italy kind Latin learned Leo X letter lived Lorenzo Macchiavelli Manetti Medici Middle Ages Milan modern monks moral Murat murder Naples nature Niccolò noble Opera Papacy passion Paul Perugia Petrarch Pius Pius II poems poetry poets Poggio political Pope princes recognised remarkable Renaissance Roman Rome Savonarola says scholars Sforza sixteenth Sixtus speak speech spirit tion Urbino Venetian Venice viii Villani Visconti Vita whole women writers xxiv
Pasajes populares
Página 305 - Italian poetry, which now followed at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries...
Página 354 - Nee certam sedem, nee propriam faciem, nee munus ullum peculiare tibi dedimus o Adam, ut quam sedem, quam faciem, quae munera tute optaveris, ea pro voto, pro tua sententia, habeas et possideas. Definita caeteris natura intra praescriptas a nobis leges coercetur: Tu nullis angustiis coercitus, pro tuo arbitrio, in cuius manu te posui, tibi illam praefinies.
Página 454 - If we now attempt to sum up the principal features in the Italian character of that time, as we know it from a study of the life of the upper classes, we shall obtain something like the following result. The fundamental vice of this character was at the same time a condition of its greatness, namely, excessive individualism.
Página 129 - In the Middle Ages both sides of human consciousness — that which was turned within as that which was turned without — lay dreaming or half awake beneath a common veil.
Página 308 - This period, as we have seen, first gave the highest development to individuality, and then led the individual to the most zealous and thorough study of himself in all forms and under all conditions.
Página 273 - Opera Poggii' were just those most often printed, on the north as well as on the south side of the Alps. We must take care not to rejoice too soon, when we meet among these men a figure which seems immaculate; on further inquiry there is always a danger of meeting with some foul charge, which, even if it is incredible, still discolours the picture.
Página 138 - But the deepest spring of his nature has yet to be spoken of — the sympathetic intensity with which he entered into the whole life around him. At the sight of noble trees and waving corn-fields he shed tears; handsome and dignified old men he honoured as "a delight of nature," and could never look at them enough.
Página 362 - ... court were not sufficient to encourage any strong feeling of caste. Venice offers only an apparent exception to this rule, for there the ' nobili ' led the same life as their fellow-citizens, and were distinguished by few honorary privileges. The case was certainly different at Naples...
Página 4 - The struggle between the Popes and the Hohenstaufen left Italy in a political condition which differed essentially from that of other countries of the West. While in France, Spain, and England the feudal system was so organized that, at the close of its existence, it was naturally transformed into a unified monarchy, and while in Germany it helped to maintain, at least outwardly, the unity of the empire, Italy had shaken it off almost entirely. The Emperors of the fourteenth century, even in the...
Página 129 - Italy this veil first melted into air; an objective treatment and consideration of the State and of all the things of this world became possible. The subjective side at the same time asserted itself with corresponding emphasis; man became a spiritual individual, and recognized himself as such.