Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Wallace K. Ferguson. Preface vii
3. Contents xi
4. Illustrations xiii
5. The Italian view of Renaissance Italy 1
6. Petrarch: His inner struggles and the humanistic discovery of man's nature 18
7. A little-known letter of Erasmus, and the date of his encounter with Reuchlin 52
8. De modis disputandi : The apologetic works of Erasmus 62
9. Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples and the medieval Christian mystics 89
10. 'By little and little': The early Tudor humanists on the development of man 125
11. Atropos-Mors: Observations on a rare early humanist image 151
12. A music book for Anne Boleyn 160
13. The enlargement of the great council of Venice 236
14. Biondo, Sabellico, and the beginnings of Venetian official historiography 275
15. An essay on the quest for identity in the early Italian Renaissance 294
16. Notes on the word stato in Florence before Machiavelli 313
17. Bonds, coercion, and fear: Henry VII and the peerage 327
18. Incitement to violence? English divines on the theme of war, 1578 to 1631 368
19. Principal Writings of Wallace K. Ferguson 400