雅各布·布克哈特对阿尔贝蒂的自传Vita的删减和曲解

Jacob Burckhardt's Omission and Distortion of Alberti's Autography the Vita

历史学家雅各布·布克哈特在他的巨著《意大利文艺复兴时期的文化》中,以15世纪意大利文艺复兴时期的人文主义者列奥·巴蒂斯塔·阿尔贝蒂(Leon Battista Alberti,1404-72)的自传Vita为主要文献来源论证文艺复兴时期"个体的发展"这一关键主题。然而,通过阅读Vita原文,可以发现这位历史学家对Vita进行了有意识地删减和曲解;而那些被布克哈特所删略的部分,对于重新勾勒阿尔贝蒂思想轮廓、理解文艺复兴运动,具有无可替代的文献价值。

The most influential portrait of the humanist Leon Battista Alberti(1404-72) in modern times is that provided by the Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt in his monograph,The civilization of the Renaissance in Italy.Burckhardt’s description of Alberti “the universal man” mainly from his Latin autography the Vita,which was regarded in his time as a biography since it was narrated in the third person.The Swiss historian omitted and distorted the ironic and melancholic notes in Vita for turning Alberti into the incarnation of the Hegelian spirit of the times.The main objective of this article is to fill the details that scraped away in Burckhardt’s portrait of Alberti,meanwhile,to outline an organic profile of the life and thought albertiano.