Introduction: The end of the world and its rebirth (Rinascita) as the Rinascimento

Legitimacy: A crisis and a promise (c. 1250

c.1340)

Civiltà: Living and thinking the city (c.1300

c.1375)

Plague: Death, disaster, and the Rinascita of Civiltà (c. 1325- c. 1425)

Violence: Social conflict and the Italian Hundred Years' war (c. 1350-1454)

Imagination: The shared primary culture of the Early Rinascimento (c. 1350- c. 1475)

Courts: Princes, aristocrats, and quiet glory (c. 1425- c. 1500)

Self: The individual as a work of art (c. 1425- c. 1525)

Discovery: Finding the old in the new (c. 1450- c.1560)

Re-Dreams: Virtù, Saving the Rinascimento, and the Satyr in the garden (c. 1500- c.1560)

Reform: Spiritual enthusiasms, discipline, and a church militant (c. 1500- c. 1575)

Retreat: The great social divide and the end of the Rinascimento (c. 1525-c.1575)

Epilogue: The diaspora of the Rinascimento.