此书系蒋百里20世纪初欧游求“曙光”之结晶。欧游之后的蒋百里，看到的是“万卉齐开，佳谷生矣”的盛景，认定中国必得走上“人之发见”与“世界之发见”的那条“文艺复兴”之路，因为此路“实为人类精神界之春雷”，实为吾民族梦寐以求之“曙光”……书中提出的“人之发见，世界之发见”两点，正是“民主、科学”的生动注脚，符合时代精神。

《意大利文艺复兴时期的文化》内容简介：布克哈特：《意大利文艺复兴时期的文化》一书是资产阶级历史学中关于这个重大的文化革命运动最重要的著作。他根据前人对意大利文艺复兴各方面的研究，和他自己对这个问题穷年累月的探讨，建立起一个新的体系。这个体系遂成为资产阶级历史学对这个问题的正统理论。这部著作虽然最初出版于百年以前，它的德文本和各种翻译本一直风行不衰，不断有新版出现。①这部中文译本的出版，对于我们了解和批判资产阶级历史学和资产阶级的文艺思想都有很大帮助。
文艺复兴是欧洲历史中一次重大的新文化运动。恩格斯给予它很高的评价，认为“这是一次人类从来没有经历过的最伟大的、进步的变革。”②但是资产阶级历史学家出于阶级偏见，加之受形而上学思想体系的支配，对于文艺复兴运动的历史意义未能（也不可能）作出科学的说明。原来欧洲的传统历史学，从希腊时代的修昔底德直到十九世纪的兰克，都认为历史学的范围应该限于政治和军事。文艺复兴是属于学术、思想、文学和艺术领域之内的，在传统的历史学中根本没有地位。尽管自文艺复兴运动开始以来，人文主义历史家在扫除中世纪欧洲史学中的荒诞迷信，和推翻以犹太史、教会史为中心的体系方面，取得巨大成绩，因而使得历史学的面貌有所改变；但是它的范围仍然是局限于政治、军事的框子，而未能赋予这个重大文化运动以应有的地位。

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.
Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things , by Lucretius—a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions.
The copying and translation of this ancient book-the greatest discovery of the greatest book-hunter of his age-fueled the Renaissance, inspiring artists such as Botticelli and thinkers such as Giordano Bruno; shaped the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein; and had a revolutionary influence on writers such as Montaigne and Shakespeare and even Thomas Jefferson. 16 pages full-color illustrations

This is a new translation of and commentary on Pico della Mirandola's most famous work, the Oration on the Dignity of Man. It is the first English edition to provide readers with substantial notes on the text, essays that address the work's historical, philosophical and theological context, and a survey of its reception. Often called the 'Manifesto of the Renaissance', this brief but complex text was originally composed in 1486 as the inaugural speech for an assembly of intellectuals, which could have produced one of the most exhaustive metaphysical, theological and psychological debates in history, had Pope Innocent VIII not forbidden it. This edition of the Oration reflects the spirit of the original text in bringing together experts in different fields. Not unlike the debate Pico optimistically anticipated, the resulting work is superior to the sum of its parts.

The word
means rebirth, and the most obvious example of this phenomenon was the regeneration of Europe's classical Roman roots. The Renaissance began in northern Italy in the late 14th century and culminated in England in the early 17th century. Emphasis on the dignity of man
(though not of woman) and on human potential distinguished the Renaissance from the previous Middle Ages. In poetry and literature, individual thought and action were prevalent, while depictions of the human form became a touchstone of Renaissance art. In science and medicine the macrocosm and
microcosm of the human condition inspired remarkable strides in research and discovery, and the Earth itself was explored, situating Europeans within a wider realm of possibilities. Organized thematically, the
covers all aspects of life in Renaissance Europe:
History; religion; art and visual culture; architecture; literature and language; music; warfare; commerce; exploration and travel; science and medicine; education; daily life.

A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence, as well as the Italian Renaissance which they did so much to sponsor and encourage.<br /><br /><br />Strathern also follows the lives of many of the great Renaissance artists with whom the Medici had dealings, including Leonardo, Michelangelo and Donatello; as well as scientists like Galileo and Pico della Mirandola; and the fortunes of those members of the Medici family who achieved success away from Florence, including the two Medici popes and Catherine de' Médici, who became Queen of France and played a major role in that country through three turbulent reigns.