This work includes a discussion of the witch's nest at Norcia, which is described in a letter by Aeneas Sylvius.  The final chapter begins with a discussion of the execution of Boscoli as an example of the "general spirit of doubt."  A rhyming topographical work, the Dittamondo of Uberti, is discussed several times in part 4, which the previous part discusses the poetry of Palingenius, Sannazaro, and Maffeo Vegio.  The first part considers a number of despots and their republican opponents, while generally treating the idea of the "state as a work of art," while later sections deal with the "development of the individ
This work includes a discussion of the witch's nest at Norcia, which is described in a letter by Aeneas Sylvius.  The final chapter begins with a discussion of the execution of Boscoli as an example of the "general spirit of doubt."  A rhyming topographical work, the Dittamondo of Uberti, is discussed several times in part 4, which the previous part discusses the poetry of Palingenius, Sannazaro, and Maffeo Vegio.  The first part considers a number of despots and their republican opponents, while generally treating the idea of the "state as a work of art," while later sections deal with the "development of the individual" and "the revival of antiquity."  When it first appeared in 1860, its author, a professor of history at the University of Basel, was unknown.  FTP, name this work of cultural history by Jakob Burckhardt.
This work includes a discussion of the witch's nest at Norcia, which is described in a letter by Aeneas Sylvius.  
The {Civilization of the Renaissance} in Italy or Die {Kultur der Renaissance} in Italien