List of Illustrations

Foreword

Selective Chronology

Maps

Prologue: Seriously Seeking Florence

1. 'St John's Sheep-fold': The City Emergent

2. Fire, Flood, Plague, War and Art: The City Renascent

3. The City and Its Citizens in Perspective

4. Public Competition among the Artists

5. Artists in Collaboration

6. 'To Florence and God the wrong was done'

7. The Republic under First Medici Sway

8. Lorenzo de' Medici and 'the most beautiful city'

9. 'The Troubles of Italy'

10. Triumphal Entries and Fatal Exits

11. 'A young man on a marvellous horse'

12. The Princely City

13. Putting on the Style

14. The Enlightened City and the New Troubles of Italy

Epilogue: Florence as Cradle and Capital

Medici Family Tree

Books for Further Reading

Index