This work's section on religion cites a "Muhammadan ideal of nobleness, dignity, and pride" connected with the idealization of sultans such as Saladin.
This work's section on religion cites a "Muhammadan ideal of nobleness, dignity, and pride" connected with the idealization of sultans such as Saladin. It notes that the antiquity of the Hundred Old Tales is proven by their absence of practical jokes, and that the later rise of jesters like Arlotto and Gonella added "ridicule and wit" to the "outward distinction of glory." It claims that the veil of "faith, illusion, and childish prepossession" has been removed from the previously half-awake human consciousness.  This work by the author of The Cicerone opens by describing how certain "despots" created the concept of the "state as a work of art", and its second section asserts people like the Sforzas gave rise to the "Revival of Antiquity," - the Sforzas are examples of 15th cenutry despots who created "the state as a work of art." FTP, name this history of cultural rebirth after the Middle Ages written by Jacob Burckhardt.
This work's section on religion cites a "Muhammadan ideal of nobleness, dignity, and pride" connected with the idealization of sultans such as Saladin.
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy [or Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien]