Part 1. lecture 1. The study of the Italian Renaissance --
lecture 2. The Renaissance
the cradle of the Renaissance --
lecture 4. The age of Dante--
Guelfs and Ghibellines --
lecture 5. Petrarch and the foundations of humanism --
lecture 6. The recovery of antiquity --
lecture 7. Florence the creation of the Republic --
lecture 8. Florence and civic humanism --
lecture 9. Florentine culture and society --
lecture 10. Renaissance education --
lecture 11. The Medici hegemony --
lecture 12. The Florence of Lorenzo de Medici --
Part 2. lecture 13. Venice the most serence republic --
lecture 14. Renaissance Venice --
lecture 15. The Signori Renaissance Princes --
lecture 17. Castiglione and The Book of the Courtier --
lecture 18. Neoplatonism --
lecture 20. Milan under the Visconti --
lecture 21. Milan under the Sforza --
lecture 22. The eternal cityRome --
lecture 23. The rebuilding of Rome --
lecture 24. The renaissance papacy.
Part 3. lecture 25. The crisis the French invasion of 1494 --
lecture 26. Florence in turmoil --
lecture 27. Savonarola and the Republic --
lecture 28. The Medici restored --
lecture 29. The sack of Rome, 1527 --
lecture 30. Niccolo Machiavelli --
lecture 31. Alessandro de Medici --
lecture 32. The monarchy of Cosimo I --
lecture 33. Guicciardini and The History of Italy --
lecture 34. The counter-reformation --
lecture 35. The end of the Renaissance in Italy --
lecture 36. Echoes of the Renaissance.