Description: Original title: Der Morgen der Welt: Geschichte Der Renaissance.
Review Quotes: "The version of the Renaissance beloved of Pater or John Ruskin--a lyrical overture to beauty and communal order, refined by classical aestheticism--is, on this view, sentimental. Instead, the period marks a permanent alteration in what earlier scholars would have called 'European man, ' forged through a new union of artisanal craft and intellectual ambition, and shaped by the competitive worlds its makers inhabited."---Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker