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| Preface | |
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| Rome gives the world a calendar-twice | |
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| The Roman Republic and our own | |
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| Julius Caesar and the imperial purple | |
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| Catullus revolutionizes love poetry | |
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| Master builders of the ancient world | |
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| "Satire is wholly ours" | |
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| Ovid's treasure hoard of myth and fable | |
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| The Roman legacy of law | |
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| St. Benedict: Father of Western monasticism, preserver of the Roman heritage | |
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| Salerno and Bologna: The earliest medical school and university | |
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| St. Francis of Assisi,"alter Christus" | |
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| "Stupor mundi": Emperor Frederick II, King of Sicily and Jerusalem | |
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| St. Thomas Aquinas: Titan of theology | |
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| Dante's incomparable Comedy | |
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| Banks, bookkeeping, and the rise of commercial capitalism | |
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| Petrarch: Creator of the modern lyric | |
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| Boccaccio and the development of Western literary realism | |
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| The mystic as activist: St. Catherine of Siena | |
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| Inventors of the visual language of the Renaissance: Brunelleschi, Donatello, Masaccio | |
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| Lorenzo Ghiberti and the "Gates of Paradise" | |
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| Cosimo and Lorenzo de' Medici, grand patrons of art and learning | |
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| Sigismondo Malatesta: The condottiere with a vision | |
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| Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance man, eternal enigma | |
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| A new world beckons: Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, Verrazano | |
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| Machiavelli and the dawn of modern political science | |
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| Michelangelo: Epitome of human artistry | |
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| Sprezzaturaand Castiglione's concept of the gentleman | |
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| Aretino: Self-publicist, pornographer, "secretary of the world" | |
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| Giovanni Della Casa'sGalateo:Etiquette book par excellence | |
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| Andrea Palladio and his "bible" of building | |
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| Catherine de' Medici: Godmother of French cuisine | |
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| Peri'sEuridice:The birth of opera from the spirit of tragedy | |
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| Galileo frames the foundations of modern science | |
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| Two sonorous gifts: The violin and the piano | |
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| Claudio Monteverdi, father of modern music | |
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| The Baroque splendors of Bernini | |
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| Pioneers of modern anatomy: Eustachio, Fallopio, Malpighi, Morgagni, et al. | |
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| Founder of modern penology: Cesare Beccaria | |
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| Trailblazers in electricity: Galvani and Volta | |
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| Venice: Rhapsody in stone, water, melody, and color | |
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| Europe's premier poet of pessimism: Giacomo Leopardi | |
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| Giuseppe Garibaldi: A united Italy emerges | |
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| The last "Renaissance" prince-D'Annunzio at Fiume | |
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| La Dottoressa:Maria Montessori and a new era in early childhood education | |
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| Marconi invents the radio | |
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| Enrico Fermi: Father of the atomic age | |
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| Roberto Rossellini: Neorealist cinema and beyond | |
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| An unlikely international bestseller: Lampedusa's The Leopard | |
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| Ferrari-on the road to perfection | |
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| La moda italiana: The art of apparel | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Contributors | |