/lit/ - Literature

Why did he do it?

>>18428740
More like its peak. The beginning of the end was Descartes and the Enlightenment.

>>18428740
Yes.

1st December 1881, the Wagners are staying in Palermo, Sicily. talking about art and architecture...:
>The "plait"-church Domenico with the pillar of the saint disgusted him, "that's where the renaissance lead to"; I (Cosima) say, that the renaissance is as little to blame for it as Palestrina's music is to blame for the origin of the operatic aria, but he sticks to his opinion, Greek art had influenced the world long after its fall, but with this eagerness to do it beautifully, to avoid the harsh, one arrived at the rococo. There was something spoiled in the seed. People like Nietzsche, through the renaissance-man Burckhardt, even say it openly what they want: Erasmus, Petrarca, they are abhorrent to me. ("sie sind mir verhaßt")

>>18428740
The Renaissance was the return to western civilization after it had fallen through Constantine.

>>18428802
>Wagner
Stopped reading there. The non-plus-ultra retard of European intellectual history.

>>18428740
Western Civilization is still here hundreds of years later so I'd say no.

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