| | TABLE OF CONTENTS: | Preface | | | Acknowledgments | | | List of Illustrations | | | Sigla and Abbreviations | | | I | At Lorenzo's Deathbed | 3 | | II | The Prison of Antiquity | 31 | | III | The Angel from Heaven | 80 | | IV | The Eloquence of Socrates | 134 | | V | The Prince and the Plant | 180 | | VI | The Shadow of the Chancery | 235 | | VII | Physicians of the Intellect | 292 | | App | Machiavelli, the Inquisition, and the Index | 303 | | Select Bibliography | 335 | | Index | 357 | Return to Book Description File created: 4/23/2008 |