Lila Acheson Wallace - Reader’s Digest Publications Subsidy

Introduction: the tales madness tells -- Incapacity, guardianship, and the Tuscan family -- "Madness is punishment enough": the insanity defense -- Spending without measure: madness, money, and the marketplace -- From madness to sickness -- The curious case of forensic medicine: the dog that didn't bark in the night -- Conclusion.

Introduction -- Private life -- Public life -- Religious life -- Works funded by the Salt Office -- The Procuratia de Supra -- Palmanova -- Conclusion -- Chronology.

Introduction -- Apprenticeship and early independence (to 1481) -- Rome and the first fruits of success (1482-86) -- Florence, Siena and the Medici (1487-90) -- Volterra (1490-92) -- Citta di Castello and Cortona (1493-98) -- Monteoliveto and the origins of the Orvieto Commission (1498-99) -- The Cappella Nova at Orvieto (1499-1504) -- Work in and from Cortona (1502-06) -- Siena, Rome and Rocca Contrada (1506-09) -- High hopes and local fame (1510-18) -- Last works and legacy (1519-23) -- Table -- Abbreviations -- Chronology.

Medieval Christian image cults and Florentine relic cults -- The chronological development of Florentine image cults -- The topography of the sacred in the city -- The Florentine contado and subject territories -- Image and efficacy -- The physiognomy, metaphors, and style of sacred embodiment -- Enshrinement: framing and veiling -- Image cults and the Florentine Renaissance.

Scholasticism, appropriation, and censure -- Humanists' invectives and Aristotle's impiety -- Renaissance Aristotle, Renaissance Averroes -- Italian Aristotelianism after Pomponazzi -- Religious reform and the reassessment of Aristotelianism -- Learned anti-Aristoteliansim -- History, erudition, and Aristotle's past -- Pious novelty.