Foreword
PrefaceA Note about the DocumentsList of Maps and IllustrationsPART ONE. Introduction: Rome: An Untold Story Defining the Renaissance A Pyramid of Renaissance Rome's Peoples The Apex The Base The Excluded The Economics of Renaissance Rome (Legitimate and Not) Civic Re-Birth Defeated The Sack of Rome Western Christendom Sundered
PART TWO. The Documents 1. Renaissance Beginnings 1. Giovanni Boccaccio,
The Decameron, ca. 1350-1352 2. Anonymous,
The Life of Cola di Rienzo, ca. 1358 3. Catherine of Siena, Letter to Pope Gregory IX, ca. September 13, 1376
2. Renaissance Romans 4. Giovanni Mattiotti, Francesca Romana, ca. 1440 5. Johannes Burchardus, Lucretia Borgia and her family, 1501 6. Anonymous,
Canti Carnascialeschi, 15th and 16th centuries 7. Anonymous,
Pasquinate, 16th century 8.
Pope Paul IV, Cum Nimis Absurdum, 1555 9. Alessandro Trajano Petronio,
Del viver delli Romani, et di conservar la Sanita, 1592 10. Giovanni Belori,
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: A Biography (1672) and an Inventory, 1605 11. Testimony, Artemisia Gentileschi, 1612
3. Renaissance Visitors 12. William Thomas,
The History of Italy, 1549 13. Joachim Du Bellay,
The Regrets, 1555 14. Anthony Munday,
The English Roman Life, 1581 15. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne,
Travel Journal: Rome, 1580-1581
4. The Sack of Rome 16. Luigi Guicciardini,
The Sack of Rome, 1527
17. Francisco Delicado, La Lozana Andaluza, 1528
18. Benvenuto Cellini, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, 1566
19. Pietro Aretino, Aretino's Dialogues, 1536
5. Reformation Voices
20. Alfonso de Valdes, Dialogue of Lactancio and an Archdeacon, with a rebuttal letter from Baltasar Castiglione, 1528
21. Desiderius Erasmus, Julius Excluded from Heaven: A Dialogue, 1514 and Selections from Letters, 1514-1531
22. Martin Luther, Table Talk, ca. 1525-39
23. Caspar Schoppe, Letter to Conrad Rittershausen on Giordano Bruno, February 8, 1600
Appendixes A Chronology of Renaissance Rome Questions for Consideration Selected Bibliography Index