ch. 1. The Gothic night -- ch. 2. Christopher Columbus and Copernicus -- ch. 3. Bankers and speculators -- ch. 4. The Medici -- ch. 5. The humanists -- ch. 6. Erasmus -- ch. 7. The art of letters in France -- ch. 8. The Popes -- ch. 9. Pomps and vanities of Italy -- ch. 10. The arts in France at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century -- ch. 11. Savonarola -- ch. 12. Alexander VI -- ch. 13. Julius II -- ch. 14. The Italian policy of Francis I -- ch. 15. The Concordant -- ch. 16. The Reformation -- ch. 17. Catherine Dei Medici -- ch. 18. The Renaissance and the revolution.
