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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| List of Classical Abbreviations | |
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| Map of Italy Circa 1490 | |
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| City Plan of Late Quattrocento Florence | |
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| Chronology of Fifteenth-Century Florence | |
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| A Defense of the Roman Origins of Florence | |
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| The Republican Legacy | |
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| Inquiry into the Origins of Florence | |
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| So Depraved a Man as Julius Caesar Should Not Be Deemed the Founder of Florence | |
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| The Original Site of Florence Contrasted with Its Present Splendor | |
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| The Only City Founded by Three Roman Generals | |
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| Panegyric of Florence | |
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| The Structure of the Florentine Government | |
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| The Beauties of the Florentine Countryside | |
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| A Letter to Bartolommeo Cederni on Gambling at the Fast of St. John | |
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| A New Rome | |
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| A Critique of Cosimo's Florence | |
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| A Merchant's Praise of Florence | |
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| On the Celebrations for Pius II's and Galeazzo Maria Sforza's Visits to Florence | |
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| The City's Unparalleled Economic Prosperity | |
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| Lorenzo the Magnificent's Utopian State | |
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| The Glories of a New Golden Age | |
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| The Pazzi Conspiracy | |
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| A Condemnation of Lorenzo's Regime | |
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| The Entry of Charles VIII, King of France, into Florence | |
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| The Lives of Dante and Petrarch | |
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| Lives of the Illustrious Florentine Poets Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio | |
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| A Heavenly Vision After the Battle of Campaldino | |
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| The First Anthology of Vernacular Poetry | |
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| Proem to the First Edition of Dante's Divine Comedy | |
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| Florence Welcomes Dante upon His Return from Exile | |
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| Giotto's Revival of Ancient Art | |
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| Giotto Brings Art out of the Dark Ages | |
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| The Marvel of Brunelleschi's Dome for the Cathedral of Florence | |
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| Brunelleschi and Donatello Discover Ancient Roman Treasures | |
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| Eminent Florentine Artists of the Quattrocento | |
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| An Account of the Great Local Artists | |
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| The Beauty of Florence Surpasses that of Ancient Athens | |
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| An Artistic Vade Mecum for the City of Florence | |
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| Tuscany as the Cradle of Christianity | |
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| Vision of the Future of Italy | |
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| A Prophecy of a New Age | |
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| The Consecration of the Cathedral of Florence | |
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| A History of Florentine Piety | |
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| A Guide to Florence's Holy Sites | |
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| A Treatise on the Florentine Government | |
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| An Epistle to the Fanciulli | |
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| Two Poems on Spiritual Renewal | |
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| The Rise and Fall of the Self-Made Prophet Girolamo Savonarola | |
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| Metropolite Isidore's Journey to the Council of Florence | |
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| The Heir to Roman Justice | |
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| Bittersweet Praise of Florence | |
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| A Celebration of Florentine Eloquence | |
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| Praise of the City Before Its Authorities | |
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| A Sketch of Florence and Its Domain | |
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| The Delights of the Medici Villa in Careggi | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |