A letter by this writer warned of demagogues “who will descend upon Europe” and act as “terrible simplifiers.” This writer produced a comprehensive study of a country’s art that was arranged geographically to act as a travel guide in The Cicerone (“CHEECH-uh-roh-neh”). This writer described a time when “a common veil woven of faith, illusion, and childish prepossession” covered “both sides of human consciousness, [which] lay dreaming or half awake.” A book by this writer that includes the sections “The Discovery of the World and of Man” and “The Development of the Individual” inspired the research of Johan Huizinga (“YO-han HOY-zing-uh”). This writer described a period of “the State as the outcome of reflection and calculation – the State as a work of art” in a pioneering book on cultural history. For 10 points, name this 19th-century Swiss historian who wrote The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. ■END■
ANSWER: Jacob Burckhardt [or Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt]
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