The genius of Italy.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Olschki, Leonardo, 1885-1961
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford Univ. Press, 1949.
Subjects:
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.