Italy in the Age of the Renaissance, 1380-1530

Part 1 Introduction: historiography; the structure of Italy - the Italian view and the outsider's picture. Part 2 Society, the State and the Church: urban society: the "contado"; the State - authority, famine and war; the State - finance and administration; the Church and religious life. Part 3 Political histories: Italy and Europe; the south and the islands; the Papal states; the northern states. Part 4 Learning, the arts and music: the old learning and the new; the patronage of the arts and music. Appendix: the Papal succession 1370 - 1534.