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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: The Best and Worst of Times | |
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| The Problem of the Renaissance The Reformation Dances over Fire and Water? | |
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| General Chronology Further Reading | |
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| The Peoples of Europe | |
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| The Peasantry A Culture of Poverty: Village Life | |
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| The Continuities of Life for Men, Women, and Children Town Dwellers Daily Life Urban Women Social Tensions | |
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| The Rise of the Capitalists Jacob Fugger the Rich Muslims Slaves from Africa and the Levant Jews | |
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| The Nobility Mercenary and Robber Nobles The Refinement of Manners The Clergy Further Reading Notes | |
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| An Age of Disasters | |
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| The Black Death, 1347-1350 Peasant and Artisan Revolts Troubles in the Church | |
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| The Babylonian Captivity, 1305-1350 | |
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| The Western Schism of 1378-1417 | |
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| The Burning of Jan Hus (c. 1372-1415) | |
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| The Hussite Revolt The Hundred Years War, 1455-1485 | |
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| Chronology Further Reading Notes | |
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| Italy: Home of the Renaissance Florence: The Most Beautiful of Cities | |
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| The Medici in Florence | |
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| The Rise of the Medici Banking Empire | |
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| The Magnificent Lorenzo (1449-1492) | |
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| The Pazzi Plot of 1478 | |
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| The Fall of the Medici | |
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| The Fiery Domican: Savonarola | |
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| The Return of the Medici Rome and the Papal States Cola di Rienzo (1313-1354) | |
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| Renaissance Popes Naples and Sicily | |
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| The Reigns of Joanna II (1414-1435), Alfonso V (1416-1458), and Ferrante I (1458-1494) | |
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| The Power of Milan | |
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| The Rise and Fall of the Sforza, 1450-1499 | |
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| The Mantua of Issabella d Este Duke Federigo s Urbino Venice | |
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| The Queen of the Adriatic Venetian Politics and Society Venice and the Arts | |
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| The Culture of Renaissance Humanism in Italy Setting the Agenda: Early Renaissance Humanists Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) | |
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| Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) | |
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| Civic Humanists Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406) | |
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| Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444) The Illustrious Lorenzo Valla (c. 1407-1457) | |
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| Women Humanists Isotta Nogarola (1418-1466) | |
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| Laura Cereta (1469-1499) | |
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| Humanists as Philosophers, Historians, and Social Theorists Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) | |
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| Lions and Foxes: Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) | |
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| Machiavelli s Writings Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540) | |
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| Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529) | |
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| The Flowering of Italian Literature The Poet as Blackmailer: Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) | |
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| The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco (1546-1591) | |
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| Vittoria Colonna Chronology Further Reading Notes | |
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| Painting in Renaissance Italy Early Renaissance Painting: Giotto Masacio (1401-1428) | |
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| A Distinctive Style: Sandro Botticelli (c. 1444-1510) | |
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| The High Renaissance Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) | |
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| Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) | |
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| as a Painter Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520) | |
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| The Prolific Titian (c. 1488-1576) | |
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| Sofonisba Anguissola (c. 1532-1625) | |
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| Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-c. 1632) | |
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| Chronology Further Reading Notes | |
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| Renaissance Sculpture, Architecture, and Music The Fatiguing Art: Sculpture Lorenzo Ghiberti (c. 1381-1455) | |
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| Donatello (1386-1466) | |
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| Michelangelo as a Sculptor Architecture Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) | |
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| Michelozzo Miche | |