Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7)

CHAPTER I

THE MEN OF THE RENAISSANCE

Formation of Conscious Personality in Italy -- Aristocracy of Intellect -- Self-culture as an Aim -- Want of National Architecture -- Want of National Drama -- Eminence of Sculpture and Painting -- Peculiar Capacity for Literature -- Scholarship -- Men of Many-sided Genius -- Their Relation to the Age -- Conflict between Mediæval Tradition ...