The genius of Italy.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford Univ. Press,
1949.
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Table of Contents:
- The Italian landscape: man and soil
- Sociological and cultural ethnography
- The Italian people between papacy and empire
- Republican democracy -German feudalism -papal autocracy
- The consecration of poverty and the rise of a popular civilization
- Guelf theocracy and Ghibelline laicism
- Dante and his circle
- The early development of Italian art
- The rise of tyranny and the commercialization of power
- Sources and origin of a national culture
- Poetry and letters in Italian life
- Divinities and humanities in Italian civilization
- The arts and crafts in Italian life
- Political servitude and intellectual alignment
- The search for truth and the tragedy of science
- The triumph of music
- Epilogue: The heritage of the past and the problems of the future.