CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. II. THE HISTORICAL SETTING AND INFLUENCE OF FLORENTINE HUMANISM
4. Eleven. Fifteenth-Century Civilization North of the Alps and the Italian Quattrocento: Contrast and Confluence 1
5. Twelve. A Sociological Interpretation of the Early Florentine Renaissance 40
6. Thirteen. The Humanistic Revaluation of the Vita Activa in Italy and North of the Alps 55
7. Fourteen. The Querelle of the Ancients and the Modems as a Problem for Present Renaissance Scholarship 72
8. Fifteen. Machiavelli the Republican Citizen and Author of The Prince 101
9. III. HISTORIOGRAPHICAL AND AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL COMMENTARIES
10. Sixteen. The Limits of the Notion of "Renaissance Individualism": Burckhardt After a Century (1960) 155
11. Seventeen. The Course of My Studies in Florentine Humanism (1965) 182
12. Eighteen. A Defense of the View of the Quattrocento First Offered in The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance (1970) 194
13. Index of Names 213