A Short History of Renaissance Italy (Paperback, 2 ed)

Chapter 1 Out of the Ashes: The Rise of the Communes and Florence in the Age of Dante Chapter 2 The Crises of the Fourteenth Century: Climatic, Epidemic, Demographic Disasters Chapter 3 Back to the Future: Italian Humanists Recover the Classical Past Chapter 4 Caput Mundi Again? The City of Rome Reborn Chapter 5 Hearth and Home: Lay Piety, Women, and the Family Chapter 6 Lords of the Renaissance: The Medici, Visconti, and Sforza Dynasties through 1466 Chapter 7 The Mezzogiorno: The ‘Other Renaissance’ in Naples and Sicily Chapter 8 La Serenissima: When Venice Ruled the Seas Chapter 9 Magnificent Florence: Life Under Lorenzo De’ Medici Chapter 10 1494: The Beginning of the Calamities of Italy Chapter 11 Paradoxes of the High Renaissance: Art in a Time of Turmoil Chapter 12 The 1527 Sack of Rome and its Aftermath Chapter 13 Reformations: Political, Religious, and Artistic Upheaval Chapter 14 The ‘Imperial Renaissance’: Italy During the Spanish Peace Chapter 15 Celestial Revolutions: Heaven and Earth Collide at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century Epilogue: The End of the Renaissance?