Chapter 1 Out of the Ashes: The Rise of the Communes and Florence in the Age of Dante
Chapter 2 The Crises of the Fourteenth Century: Climatic, Epidemic, Demographic Disasters
Chapter 3 Back to the Future: Italian Humanists Recover the Classical Past
Chapter 4 Caput Mundi Again? The City of Rome Reborn
Chapter 5 Hearth and Home: Lay Piety, Women, and the Family
Chapter 6 Lords of the Renaissance: The Medici, Visconti, and Sforza Dynasties through 1466
Chapter 7 The Mezzogiorno: The ‘Other Renaissance’ in Naples and Sicily
Chapter 8 La Serenissima: When Venice Ruled the Seas
Chapter 9 Magnificent Florence: Life Under Lorenzo De’ Medici
Chapter 10 1494: The Beginning of the Calamities of Italy
Chapter 11 Paradoxes of the High Renaissance: Art in a Time of Turmoil
Chapter 12 The 1527 Sack of Rome and its Aftermath
Chapter 13 Reformations: Political, Religious, and Artistic Upheaval
Chapter 14 The ‘Imperial Renaissance’: Italy During the Spanish Peace
Chapter 15 Celestial Revolutions: Heaven and Earth Collide at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century
Epilogue: The End of the Renaissance?
Biography
Lisa Kaborycha holds a Ph.D. in Medieval and Early Modern European History from the University of California, Berkeley and has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship; a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship with the Medici Archive Project; and Harvard’s Villa I Tatti Fellowship in Italian Renaissance Studies. In addition to A Short History of Renaissance Italy, and Voices from the Italian Renaissance, she is the author of A Corresponding Renaissance: Letters Written by Italian Women, 1375–1650 (2016). For years Kaborycha taught courses in Renaissance History for the University of California and currently works as adjunct professor at the University of New Haven Tuscany Campus and lecturer at the British Institute of Florence.
