Question

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 (10[1])described a time when “a common (10[1])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 (-5[1])of “the State (-5[1])as the outcome of reflection and calculation the State as a work of art” in a pioneering book (-5[1])on cultural history. (10[2])For 10 points, name this 19th-century Swiss (10[1])historian who wrote (-5[1])The Civilization (10[2])of the Renaissance (10[2])in Italy. ■END■ (10[3]0[7])

ANSWER: Jacob Burckhardt [or Carl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt]
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y1963%0%21%122.92

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Justin WytmarIllinois AMichigan A4210
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota AHouston A4810
Ned TagtmeierChicago APenn A102-5
Geoffrey ChenCornell AVirginia A105-5
Matthew LehmannWUSTL ASouth Carolina A124-5
Cole TimmerwilkeHarvard AMaryland A12710
Clark SmithOhio State AYale A12710
Vincent DuNorth Carolina AIowa State A13410
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto AFlorida A137-5
Hari ParameswaranGeorgia Tech AMIT A13910
Alex PijanowskiPurdue AYale B13910
Christopher SimsNorthwestern ABrown A14210
Andrew HannaVanderbilt ARutgers A14210
Puna EkkaMinnesota BGeorgia Tech B1450
Amogh KulkarniChicago BJohns Hopkins A14510
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AImperial A1450
S. A. ShenoyGeorgia Tech BMinnesota B1450
Yared TadesseCornell BNYU A14510
Tracy MirkinFlorida AToronto A14510
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