The Social World of the Florentine Humanists, 1390-1460

Acknowledgments

Abbreviation 

I. Introduction: Program and Problems

II. Social Place in Florence: Assumptions and Realities

1. Wealth 
2. Public Life 
3. Family: The Significance of a Tradition 
4. Marriage
5. Ideal and Reality

III. The Fortunes of the Florentine Humanists

1. The Question in Scholarship 
2. Source Problems
3. Coluccio Salutati 
4. Robert de’ Rossi 
5. Cino Rinuccini
6. Niccolò Niccoli
7. Lionardo Bruni
8. Poggio Bracciolini
9. Carlo Marsuppini 
10. Giannozzo Manetti  
11. Matteo Palmieri  
12. Leon Battista Alberti 

IV. Public Office in the Humanist Circle

1. Introductory Note
2. Coluccio Salutati and His Sons
3. Roberto de’ Rossi and Niccolò Niccoli
4. Lionardo Bruni 
5. Giannozzo Manetti
6. Matteo Palmieri 

V. Humanist Marriage: A Study of Five Families

1. The Castellani 
2. The Buondelmonti
3. The Tebalducci
4. The Corsini 
5. The Serragli

VI. The Florentine Attitude Towards the Humanist 

1. Introductory Note
2. The Testimony of the Public Funeral
3. The Official View Analyzed
4. “The Honor of Florence” 

VII. The Relation Between Humanism and Florentine Society: An Essay

1. Note
2. A Retrospective Summary
3. The Social Basis of Humanism: Appendix I 
4. The Genesis of Civic Humanism 
5. The Decline of Civic Humanism

Appendix I. Forty-Five Profiles of Men Connected with Florentine Humanism

1. Introductory Note 
2. The Profiles

Appendix II. Eight Tables on Wealth in Florence 

Bibliography

Index