An engrossing volume on the Italian Renaissance by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant. This fifth volume of Durant's acclaimed Story of Civilization, The Renaissance chronicles the history of Italy from 1304 to 1576.
I. The Father of the Renaissance
V. Architecture: the Age of Brunellesco
II. The Development of Lorenzo
IV. Literature: the Age of Politian
V. Architecture and Sculpture: The Age of Verrocchio
IV. The Republic and the Medici
III. In Florence: 1500–01, 1503–06
IV. In Milan and Rome: 1506–16
III. The First Lady of the World
I. The Papal Schism: 1378–1417
II. The Councils and the Popes
III. The Triumph of the Papacy
VI. The Collapse of the Borgia Power
II. Roman Architecture: 1492–1513
V. The Recovery of Classic Art
VI. Michelangelo and Leo X: 1513–20
VII. Raphael and Leo X: 1513–20
I. The Founts and Forms of Immorality
I. France Discovers Italy: 1494–95
II. The Attack Renewed: 1496–1505
III. The League of Cambrai: 1508–16
VI. Clement VII: the First Phase
VIII. Charles Triumphant: 1527–30
X. Michelangelo and Clement VII: 1520–34
XI. The End of an Age: 1528–34
VII. Michelangelo: the Last Phase