Kenneth R. Bartlett is Professor of History and Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The English in Italy 1525–1558: A Study in Culture and Politics (1991), The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance: A Sourcebook (2011), and A Short History of the Italian Renaissance (2013).

• List of FiguresList of Maps and TableList of GenealogiesAcknowledgementsA Note to the ReaderA Timeline of the Italian RenaissancePopes Following the Great Schism 1. Defining the Renaissance 2. Before the Renaissance 3. Social Continuities 4. Petrarch 5. Humanism 6. The Republic of Florence 7. Rome and the Papacy 8. The Maritime States: Pisa, Genoa, and Venice 9. The Principalities 10. Renaissance Neo-Platonism 11. The Age of Crisis 12. Medici Popes and Princes 13. The Counsel of Experience in Changing Times 14. Art and Architecture 15. The End of the Renaissance in Italy ConclusionBibliographySourcesIndex

The range of subjects treated in the book is impressive, and gives a broad audience an idea of the vastness of aspects of the Italian Renaissance. - European Review of History