Jacob Burckhardt In the character of these States, whether republics or despotisms, lies, not the only, but the chief reason for the early development of the Italian into modern man. It is this that made it inevitable that he should be the first–born among the sons of modern Europe. In the Middle Ages both sides of human consciousness–that which was turned within and that which was turned wit...
陇原秦川
2021-04-30 21:01:18