雅各布·布克哈特(Jacob Burckhardt)著作《意大利文艺复兴时期的文化》[1]是研究文艺复兴时期的经典巨作,它所带来的震撼可想而知。无论是自负的尼采在听完前者历史的导论一课后感叹他是‘有智慧的学者,伟大的导师’,还是作为赫伊津哈不无道理称赞的‘19世纪最睿智的人’,或是贡布里希在著作中引用及‘如果哪位史学家称得上是伟人,布克哈特肯定是当之无愧的’的肯定[2],亦或是沃尔夫林的对其 Jacob Burckhardt’s book, “Italian Renaissance Culture” [1], is a masterpiece of the Renaissance classic, the shock it can be imagined. Whether it is their own egoism, after listening to the introductory history lesson of the former, he laments that he is ’a wise scholar and great teacher’ or ’wisest person of the nineteenth century’ who is acclaimed as Huy Jinha, or In his writings, Gombrich quotes and “if any historian called him a great man, certainly Beckhart deserved” [2], or to Wolfflin’s