The Study of the Italian Renaissance
The Renaissance—Changing Interpretations
Italy—The Cradle of the Renaissance
The Age of Dante—Guelfs and Ghibellines
Petrarch and the Foundations of Humanism
The Recovery of Antiquity
Florence—The Creation of the Republic
Florence and Civic Humanism
Florentine Culture and Society
Renaissance Education
The Medici Hegemony
The Florence of Lorenzo de’Medici
Venice—The Most Serene Republic
Renaissance Venice
The Signori—Renaissance Princes
Urbino
Castiglione and The Book of the Courtier
Women in Renaissance Italy
Neoplatonism
Milan Under the Visconti
Milan Under the Sforza
The Eternal City—Rome
The Rebuilding of Rome
The Renaissance Papacy
The Crisis—The French Invasion of 1494
Florence in Turmoil
Savonarola and the Republic
The Medici Restored
The Sack of Rome, 1527
Niccolò Machiavelli
Alessandro de’Medici
The Monarchy of Cosimo I
Guicciardini and The History of Italy
The Counter-Reformation
The End of the Renaissance in Italy
Echoes of the Renaissance