Los ensayos que componen este volumen han sido escritos en un marco temporal de algo más de 20 años, por lo cual el lector podrá, también, aprender en ellos el desarrollo del método de Chabod, su tendencia a una historiografía global, ese cruce de elementos económicos, sociales y políticos capaz de reconstruir en su complejidad uno de los momentos más intensos de la historia moderna.

Federico Chabod (1901-1960) was one of Italy's best-known historians, noted for his study of Italian history in a European context. This is the first English translation of his most important book. Although he carried out his extensive archival research for this work from 1936 until 1943, the fall of fascism and Chabod's active participation in the Resistance delayed its completion. When it was published in 1951, it was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. Chabod intended to write a new kind of diplomatic history-- one in which political history is seen as part of a larger historical whole. He does not present a detailed chronological account of Italian foreign policy during the period studied, but rather the "moral and material" underpinnings of that policy. In fact, he crafts a highly developed portrait of an age, with the real subjects being the Italian state and society, the ruling class and political culture. This work offers readers a superb picture of post-Risorgimento Italy and an outstanding example of Chabod's historiographical method. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Product Description: El gran historiador italiano analiza en este libro el concepto "Renacimiento" para definir en términos específicos el espíritu de la época que subyace en las culturas europeas de los siglos XII al XVI. Chabod investiga los antecedentes medievales del Renacimiento y sus verdaderas repercusiones en las épocas siguientes, para determinar el papel real de esa cultura en la formación de la sociedad actual...read more