“It is the historian's function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.”

✒️ #JacobBurckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, #DOTD 8 August 1897. #Art #Culture #History #ItalianRenaissance

“It is the historian’s function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.”

✒️ #JacobBurckhardt, Swiss historian, author of the great book "The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy" (1860), was #BOTD 25 May 1818. #Arts #Culture #History

Jacob Burckhardt: Briefe. Ausgewählt und herausgegeben von Max Burckhardt, Berlin, Darmstadt und Wien 1965, 213.

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