Burckhardt
Americannoun
noun
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The Renaissance, Jacob Burckhardt once wrote, was a golden age for bastards.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
Katz had met Denby through the filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt.
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2022
As the historian Jacob Burckhardt would write, “Italy began to swarm with individuality; the ban laid upon human personality was dissolved.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 24, 2021
It’s been polished into a glowing jewel of a book by several editors including Mary Venturini, who worked with her in later years at a magazine for expats in Rome, and Schloss’s son, Jacob Burckhardt.
From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2021
Then I will arrange that you undertake the little expedition, associated with Major Burckhardt, whose peculiar local knowledge should be of much value.
From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Strang, Herbert
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