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This is a 5 page paper discussing Jacob Burckhardt’s “The Fall of the Humanists in the Sixteenth Century”. Jacob Burckhardt’s writings on “The Fall of the Humanists in the Sixteenth Century” in part III of his work “The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy” discusses how the humanist movement away from the affiliation between the church and the state back toward the traditional positive views of man introduced by the ancient Greeks and Romans offered a progressive and excessive view of society which was eventually not well accepted and which led to the downfall of the humanists. While Burckhardt generally did not believe that accelerated movements in history were good for society, other modern scholars and critics believe that this perspective of Burckhardt’s may actually have been a reflection of the excesses he was witnessing in 19th century Europe. While those who believed in the importance of the functioning of the church and the state supported Burckhardt’s views, others advocated that the humanist movement actually developed a sense of liberalism and the equality of man considered an essential element in today’s democratic societies.
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Renaissance in Italy" discusses how the humanist movement away from the affiliation between the church and the state back toward the traditional positive views of man introduced by the ancient
Greeks and Romans offered a progressive and excessive view of society which was eventually not well accepted and which led to the downfall of the humanists. While Burckhardt generally did
not believe that accelerated movements in history were good for society, other modern scholars and critics believe that this perspective of Burckhardts may actually have been a reflection of the
excesses he was witnessing in 19th century Europe. While those who believed in the importance of the functioning of the church and the state supported Burckhardts views, others advocated that
the humanist movement actually developed a sense of liberalism and the equality of man considered an essential element in todays democratic societies. While most scholars and students tend to equate
"the Renaissance" between the 14th and 16th centuries as a time when the great art and literature signified the advances in state and social life. Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897)
however argued in his text "The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy" that it was the city-states of Renaissance Italy that actually "gave birth to the modern state and modern
individual" (Burckhardt, 1878; Mosaic, 2003). Modern historians often dispute some of Burckhardts claims but most concede that in certain aspects, he was "correct to date the birth of modernity" to
the Italian Renaissance. The 14th and 15th centuries in Italy were considered a Renaissance in that the rebirth they were experiencing rivaled the former glory days of ancient Rome and
the centuries which had passed in between were dismissed. During this time in addition to the great achievements in art, Italians studied "humanitatis" or humanism which "stressed the importance of
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