- List of Illustrations*
- Preface
- Introduction: States and Status in the Florentine Renaissance
- 1. Imagining Florence: The Civic World of the Late Fifteenth Century
- 2. Great Expectations: The Place of the Medici in the Office-Holding Class, 1480–1527
- 3. Defending Liberty: The Climacteric of Republican Florence
- 4. Neither Fish nor Flesh: The Difficulties of Being Florentine, 1530–1537
- 5. Reimagining Florence: The Court Society of the Mid-Sixteenth Century
- Conclusion: Florence and Renaissance Republicanism
- Appendix 1: A Partial Reconstruction of the Office-Holding Class of Florence, ca. 1500
- Appendix 2: Biographical Information
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- * Illustrations:
- 1.1. Domenico Ghirlandaio, Confirmation of the Rule of Saint Francis by Pope Honorius III (ca. 1479–1485)
- 1.2. Domenico Ghirlandaio, The Resurrection of the Roman Notary’s Son (ca. 1479–1485)
- 1.3. Domenico Ghirlandaio, Appearance of the Angel to Zacharias (ca. 1485–1489)
- 1.4. Filippino Lippi, The Madonna Appears to Saint Bernard (ca. 1490)
- 1.5. Benozzo Gozzoli, Procession of the Magi—east wall (ca. 1459)
- 1.6. Domenico Ghirlandaio, The Birth of the Virgin—detail (ca. 1485–1489)
- 1.7. Domenico Ghirlandaio, Visitation of the Virgin—detail (ca. 1485–1489)
- 1.8. Domenico Ghirlandaio, Francesco Sassetti and His Son Teodoro (ca. 1488)
- 2.1. Piero di Cosimo, The Liberation of Andromeda (1513)
- 2.2. Francesco Botticini, The Assumption of the Virgin—detail (ca. 1475–1476)
- 2.3. Andrea del Sarto, Scenes from the Life of San Filippo Benizzi: A Boy Is Healed by Touching the Saint’s Clothes (1510)
- 2.4. Pontormo, Joseph with Jacob in Egypt—detail (ca. 1518)
- 2.5. Pontormo, Portrait of Cosimo il Vecchio (ca. 1519)
- 3.1. Pontormo, Portrait of a Halberdier (Francesco Guardi?) (1528–1530)
- 3.2. Donatello, David (1409)
- 3.3. Pontormo, Madonna with Child, Saint Anne, and Four Saints (ca. 1528–1529)
- 3.4. Pontormo, Madonna with Child, Saint Anne, and Four Saints—detail (ca. 1528–1529)
- 4.1. Bronzino, Portrait of Ugolino Martelli (ca. 1536–1537)
- 4.2. Michelangelo Buonarotti, Tomb of Giuliano de’ Medici, Duke of Nemours—detail (1526–1533)
- 4.3. Bronzino, Portrait of a Lady in Red (ca. 1533)
- 5.1. Francesco Salviati, Portrait of a Florentine Nobleman (1546–1548)
- 5.2. Francesco Salviati, Portrait of a Man with a Sword (ca. 1543–1548)
