Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Illustrations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Sources of Avant-Gardism in Nineteenth-Century Florence 15
7. 2. The Leonardo Years 52
8. 3. La Voce: The Making of a Florentine Avant-Garde 102
9. 4. Culture Wars and War for Culture: The Years of Florentine Futurism 153
10. 5. The Fate of the Florentine Avant-Garde: The War Years and the Postwar Crisis 204
11. Conclusion 251
12. Notes 269
13. Bibliography 313
14. Index 331