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Index
Front Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Titles of Related Interest Available from Hackett Publishing
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Dawn of Humanism
Chapter 1: Petrarch, the Father of Humanism
Laura
The Letters of Cicero
Petrarch in His Own Time
The Problem of Paganism
The Invention of the Autonomous Individual
Humanism
Chapter 2: Leonardo Bruni and Civic Humanism
Giovanni Boccaccio
Coluccio Salutati
Leonardo Bruni
Bruni’s History of Florence
Part II: Florence: The Humanist Republic
Chapter 3: The Rise of the Medici in Florence
The Struggle for Power
Civic Humanism under the Albizzi Oligarchy
The Culture of Republican Liberty and Civic Humanism
Cosimo de’Medici, il Vecchio
Cosimo, Patron of the Arts
Neoplatonism
Cosimo, Pater Patriae
Chapter 4: The Medici Dynasty
Lorenzo de’Medici, il Magnifico
The Pazzi Conspiracy
The Consequences of Failure
Lorenzo’s Retreat
The Death of Lorenzo il Magnifico
Chapter 5: The Challenge of Savonarola
Piero de’Medici il Sfortunato
The Rise of Savonarola
The Expulsion of Piero de’Medici
Chapter 6: Savonarola in Power
The Council of Five Hundred
Florence as the New Jerusalem
The Fall of Savonarola
Arrest, Trial, and Execution
Chapter 7: The Age of Niccolò Machiavelli
Second Chancellor
Machiavelli Abroad
Piero Soderini: Gonfaloniere for Life
The Traveling Diplomat
Diplomatic Failure
The Prince and The Discourses on Livy
Finale
Part III: Princes, Patronage, and Power
Chapter 8: The Vipers of Milan
Petrarch in Milan
The Rise of Giangaleazzo Visconti
Gian Maria Visconti
Filippo Maria Visconti
Chapter 9: Milan Triumphant
Francesco Sforza’s Rule
The Peace of Lodi
Galeazzo Maria Sforza
The Regency of Lodovico il Moro
Lodovico il Moro, Duke of Milan
Leonardo da Vinci in Milan
Chapter 10: Mantua and the Age of the Gonzaga
The Gonzaga and Mantegna
Isabella d’Este
Federigo II and Giulio Romano
Amor and Psyche
Renaissance Court Culture
Chapter 11: Ferrara and the Este
The Sordid Path to Legitimacy
Lionello d’Este
Borso d’Este
Ercole I d’Este
Ercole II d’Este
Tasso and the Chivalric Epic
Chapter 12: Urbino and the Montefeltro
Federigo da Montefeltro
Federigo’s Studiolo
Problems in Succession
Baldassare Castiglione
The Book of the Courtier
Urbino after Guidobaldo
Part IV: The Renaissance at the Edges
Chapter 13: Venice in the Renaissance
The Republic of Venice in the Middle Ages
The Crusades
Stability and Harmony
The Arrival of the Renaissance in Venice
The Reign of Doge Francesco Foscari
Prophecy Fulfilled
Chapter 14: Venice in the Age of Palladio
Doge Leonardo Loredan
The League of Cambrai
Winds of Change
A New Kind of Education
Andrea Palladio
Villeggiatura Veneziana
Public Architecture
A Renaissance Architect
Chapter 15: The Kingdom of Naples
A Tortured History
The Angevins in Naples
The Exception to the Rule
The Unfortunate Tale of Joanna I
Chapter 16: The Re-emergence of Renaissance Culture in Naples
The Ascension of Alfonso the Magnanimous
Humanist Luminaries at Alfonso’s Court
Ferdinando I (Ferrante of Naples)
Neapolitan Humanism
Part V: Rome in the Renaissance
Chapter 17: The Redemption of Rome
A Lopsided Economy
A Distorted Population
The Urban Landscape
The Babylonian Captivity
Cola di Rienzo
The End of the Babylonian Captivity
The Great Western Schism
Chapter 18: The Restoration of Rome
From Eugene IV to Paul II
Nicholas V
The Rule of Sixtus IV
Rebuilding Rome
Secular Nepotism
Aggrandizing the Church
A Violent Accession
Chapter 19: Julius II
The Path to the Papacy
Alexander VI and the Borgia Papacy
Pope Julius II
The Rebuilding of St. Peter’s
Transforming the Vatican Palace
The Warrior Pope
Chapter 20: The Medici Popes
The Pontificate of Leo X
A Humanist’s Papacy
The War of Urbino
The Conspiracy of the Cardinals
Leo X’s Legacy
A Brief and Unhappy Pontificate
Clement VII
The Sack of Rome, 1527
Chapter 21: Rome and the Counter-Reformation
Paul III
The Council of Trent
Paul III as Patron
Julius III
Paul IV
Alternating Perspectives: 1559–85
Ignazio Danti and the Renaissance of Mathematics and Geography
A Renaissance Pope of the Counter-Reformation
Chapter 22: The End of the Renaissance in Rome
Felice Peretti
Sixtus V
Sixtus V as City Planner
The Observant Pope
Support of Knowledge and Learning
The Legacy of Sixtus V
Conclusion
Bibliography
Image Credits
Index
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