Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. ABBREVIATIONS xi
5. INTRODUCTION. THE CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS 3
6. CHAPTER 1. Petrarch as Self-Consoler: The Secretum 18
7. CHAPTER 2. Petrarch as Public Consoler: The Letters 30
8. CHAPTER 3. Petrarch as Universal Consoler: The De remediis utriusque fortune 46
9. CHAPTER 4. Consolation and Community: Coluccio Salutati as Friend and Comforter 73
10. CHAPTER 5. The Art of Mourning: Autobiographical Writings on the Loss of a Son 93
11. CHAPTER 6. The Science of Consoling: A Litde-Known Clerical Manual of Consolation 116
12. CHAPTER 7. Grief and Melancholy in Medicean Florence: Marsilio Ficino and the Platonic Regimen 132
13. CONCLUSION. The Italian Renaissance and Beyond 155
14. NOTES 167
15. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 287
16. INDEX 301