by Jacob Burckhardt
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PART I
The State As a Work of Art
Chapter II
Despots of the Fourteenth Century
Chapter III
Despots of the Fifteenth Century
Chapter IV
The Smaller Despotisms
Chapter V
The Greater Dynasties
Chapter VI
The Opponents of the Despots
Chapter VII
The Republics: Venice and Florence
Chapter VIII
Foreign Policy
Chapter IX
War As a Work of Art
Chapter X
The Papacy
Chapter XI
Patriotism
PART II
The Development of the Individual
Glory
Ridicule and Wit
PART III
The Revival of Antiquity
The Ruins of Rome
The Classics
The Humanists
Universities and Schools
Propagators of Antiquity
Propagators of Antiquity; Epistolography: Latin Orators
The Treatise, and History in Latin
Antiquity As the Common Source
Neo-Latin Poetry
Fall of the Humanists in the Sixteenth Century
PART IV
The Discovery of the World and of Man
The Natural Sciences in Italy
Discovery of the Beauty of Landscape
Discovery of Man
Biography in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance
Description of the Outward Man
Description of Human Life
PART V
Society and Festivals
Costumes and Fashions
Language and Society
Social Etiquette
Education of the 'Cortigiano'
Music
Equality of Men and Women
Domestic Life
Festivals
PART VI
Morality and Religion
Morality and Immorality
Religion in Daily Life
Strength of the Old Faith
Religion and the Spirit of the Renaissance
Influence of Ancient Superstition
General Spirit of Doubt