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Tables of Contents for Sprezzatura
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xv
Rome gives the world a calendar---twice
3
6
The Roman Republic and our own
9
6
Julius Caesar and the imperial purple
15
9
Catullus revolutionizes love poetry
24
7
Master builders of the ancient world
31
7
``Satire is wholly ours''
38
8
Ovid's treasure hoard of myth and fable
46
7
The Roman legacy of law
53
6
Father of Western monasticism, preserver of the Roman heritage
59
5
St. Benedict
Salerno and Bologna: The earliest medical school and university
64
7
St. Francis of Assisi, ``alter Christus''
71
8
``Stupor mundi'': Emperor Frederick II, King of Sicily and Jerusalem
79
8
Titan of theology
87
7
St. Thomas Aquinas
Dante's incomparable Comedy
94
11
Banks, bookkeeping, and the rise of commercial capitalism
105
7
Creator of the modern lyric
112
8
Petrarch
Boccaccio and the development of Western literary realism
120
9
The mystic as activist: St. Catherine of Siena
129
5
Inventors of the visual language of the Renaissance: Brunelleschi, Donatello, Masaccio
134
9
Lorenzo Ghiberti and the ``Gates of Paradise''
143
4
Cosimo and Lorenzo de' Medici, grand patrons of art and learning
147
9
The condottiere with a vision
156
7
Sigismondo Malatesta
Renaissance man, eternal enigma
163
10
Leonardo da Vinci
A new world beckons: Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, Verrazano
173
9
Machiavelli and the dawn of modern political science
182
8
Epitome of human artistry
190
11
Michelangelo
Sprezzatura and Castiglione's concept of the gentleman
201
8
Self-publicist, pornographer, ``secretary of the world''
209
6
Aretino
Giovanni Della Casa's Galateo: Etiquette book par excellence
215
6
Andrea Palladio and his ``bible'' of building
221
5
Catherine de' Medici: Godmother of French cuisine
226
6
Peri's Euridice: The birth of opera from the spirit of tragedy
232
7
Galileo frames the foundations of modern science
239
8
Two sonorous gifts: The violin and the piano
247
6
Claudio Monteverdi, father of modern music
253
6
The Baroque splendors of Bernini
259
7
Pioneers of modern anatomy: Eustachio, Fallopio, Malpighi, Morgagni, et al.
266
7
Founder of modern penology: Cesare Beccaria
273
4
Trailblazers in electricity: Galvani and Volta
277
4
Rhapsody in stone, water, melody, and color
281
10
Venice
Europe's premier poet of pressimism: Giacomo Leopardi
291
9
A united Italy emerges
300
10
Giuseppe Garibaldi
The last ``Renaissance'' prince---D'Annunzio at Fiume
310
9
Maria Montessori and a new era in early childhood education
319
7
La Dottoressa
Marconi invents the radio
326
5
Father of the atomic age
331
7
Enrico Fermi
Neorealist cinema and beyond
338
7
Roberto Rossellini
An unlikely international bestseller: Lampedusa's The Leopard
345
8
Ferrari---on the road to perfection
353
4
La moda italiana: The art of apparel
357
8
Suggested Reading
365
24
Index
389
8
About the Contributors
397