Table of Contents
Contents
PROLOGUE AD LECTOREM
BOOK I: THE BIRTH OF HUMANIST HISTORIOGRAPHY
Leonardo Bruni
The Chroniclers
The Heritage of Petrarchan Humanism
The Reception of the New Historiography
Bruni's Heirs
Flavio Biondo
The City of Rome and the Roman Curia
Enea Silvio Piccolomini and His Heirs
Biographical History
3. VENICE AND GENOA
The Chronicle Tradition
The Terraferma Tradition
The Revival of Genoese Historiography
The Humanist Historians in Venice
BOOK II: THE DIFFUSION OF HUMANIST HISTORIOGRAPHY
The Communes and the Metropolis
Universal Chronicles
From Independent to Dependent Communes
The Independent Signorie: Mantua, Ferrara, Bologna
The Historians of the Metropolis
5. FROM COMMUNES TO TERRITORIAL STATES
The Medieval Heritage
The Court of Alfonso d' Aragona
The Reign of Ferrante
BOOK III: LA CALAMITA D'ITALIA
A Transitory Disturbance
From Savonarola to the Medici Restoration
The French in Milan
Agnadello
The War of the League of Cognac
The Sack of Rome and the Inquisition Revolt
8. FROM THE SALT WAR TO LEPANTO
BOOK IV: THE REVIVAL OF MUNICIPAL HISTORIOGRAPHY
The Subject Cities
Anti-Medievalism
Independence Preserved: Venice
Independence Regained: Piedmont, Parma-Piacenza, Genoa
Independence Lost
Editions and Translations
The Availability of Information
Domestic and Ancient Models
The Remaking of Pandolfo Collenuccio
The Memorable Events
The Definitive Histories
BOOK V: FROM MUNICIPAL HISTORY TO WORLD HISTORY
The Present
"Historia" and "Descriptio"
The Past
Foreigners in Italy
Italians in the East
Italians in the West
Italians in the North
The Universality of Memorable Events
Paolo Giovio and His Successors
Historia Ab Orbe Condito
The Rejection of Humanism
BOOK VI: THE LATERAL DISCIPLINES
Series of Biographies
From Biography to Art History: Giorgio Vasari
The Suetonian-Plutarchan Tradition
Nonhumanist Biography and the Ancient Models
Genealogy and Hagiography
From Biography to Biographical Dictionaries
What the Study of Antiquities Could Have Contributed to Historiography
What the Study of Antiquities Shared with History
What the Study of Antiquities Did Not Share with History
The Tridentine Reformation
The Religious Orders
The Aims of Sacred History
The Truth versus the Heretics: Cesare Baronio
The Sacred and the Profane
Paolo Sarpi
Ars Historica
The Demise of Humanist Historiography
ABBREVIATIONS
NOTES
INDEX
