Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Myth of the Renaissance
2. The Four Horsemen
3. Corsignano and Siena
4. The Exile
5. The Cleric
6. The Road to Mantua
7. Renaissance Chivalry
8. Mantua and After
9. The Political Pope
10. A Room of One’s Own
11. Plague and Pleasure: 1462
12. The Age of Spectacle
13. Pienza
14. Urban Dreams
15. Visits to Antiquity
16. Villas and Gardens
17. The Crusade
18. The Art of Copiousness
19. Conclusion. Pius and His Period
Appendix. Plague in Italy, 1347–1700
Bibliography
Index