Family Trees Prologue: The Great and Terrible Renaissance 1. Machiavelli the Patriot: SPQF Part I: Why You Shouldn''t Believe Anyone (Including Me) About the Renaissance 2. Everybody Wants to Claim a Golden Age 3. The Flexible X-Factor of the Renaissance 4. Time for a Tangent About Vikings! (It''s Relevant, I Swear.) 5. The Quest for the Renaissance X-Factor Begins 6. Super Sexy Secular Humanism 7.
A New X-Factor: The Baron Thesis and Proto-Democracy 8. Another X-Factor: Enter Economists! 9. Florence: A Self-Fulfilling Source Base 10. What Makes People Start to Study the Renaissance 11. Lorenzo de Medici: Hero or Villain? 12. Or Were We Brought Here by Romance? 13. The Invention of the Middle Ages 14. The Un-Modern Renaissance 15.
Why Did Ada Palmer Start Studying the Renaissance? Part II: Desperate Times and Desperate Measures 16. Desperate Times 17. Cruel Wars for Light Causes 18. A Strange Peace, A Stranger War 19. Rome: The Eternal Problem City 20. Medieval but Ever-So-Much-More-So 21. The Desperate Measure: Reviving Antiquity Intermission: Are You Remembering Not to Believe Me? 22. Antiquity Was Not New Either 23.
The Umanista ''s Rival: Scholasticism 24. Studia Humanitatis --The Words That Sting and Bite 25. Italian Renaissance Becomes European Renaissance 26. The Supremacy of Antiquity 27. Is This About Virtue or Power? Part III: Let''s Meet Some People from This Golden Age 28. Patrons and Clients All the Way Up 29. Our Friends So Far 30. Alessandra Strozzi: Labors of Exile 31.
Manetto Amanatini: There Is a World Elsewhere 32. Francesco Filelfo: Between Republics and Monarchies 33. Montesecco: An Assassin Fears for His Soul 34. Ippolita Maria Visconti Sforza: The Princess and the Peace 35. Josquin des Prez: The International Renaissance 36. Angelo Poliziano: Patronage Repays 37. Savonarola: Saint or Demon? 38. Alessandra Scala: The Girl of Our Dreams 39.
Raffaello Maffei il Volterrano: A Scholar Fears for His Soul Too 40. Lucrezia Borgia: Princess of Nowhere 41. Camilla Bartolini Rucellai: Spirit of the Last Republic 42. Michelangelo: The Great and Terrible Interlude: Let''s Ground Ourselves in Time 43. Julia the Sibyl: A Prophetess in an Age of Science 44. Our Friend Machiavelli Machiavelli Part 2: The Three Branches of Ethics Machiavelli Part 3: Enter the Prince Machiavelli Part 4: Julius II the Warrior Pope Coda: Many Machiavellis Part IV: What Was Renaissance Humanism? 45. What Was Behind the Curtain? Garin vs. Kristeller 46.
Who Gets to Count as a Renaissance Humanist? 47. Back to Our X-Factors 48. Once Upon a Time at Vergil''s House. 49. Follow the Money! 50. It''s Getting Weird in Florence 51. Scraps of Philosophia 52. Was There Renaissance Secular Humanism? 53.
How (Not) to Dodge the Renaissance Inquisition 54. Why We Care Whether Machiavelli Was an Atheist 55. Was Machiavelli a Humanist? Part 1 56. Virtue Politics 57. Was Machiavelli a Humanist? Part 2 Part V: The Try Everything Age 58. An Exponential Information Revolution 59. We Can''t Just Abelard Harder Anymore 60. The Presumptive Authority of the Past 61.
The New Philosophy 62. A Brief History of Progress 63. Progresses Part VI: Conclusion - Who Has Power in History? 64. Great Forces History vs. Individual Choice History 65. The Papal Election of 2016 66. Which Horseman of the Apocalypse? 67. What Did the Black Death Really Cause? Sources and Recommended Reading Notes Acknowledgments Image Credits Index About the Author.