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Plague and Pleasure is a lively popular history that introduces a new hypothesis about the impetus behind the cultural change in Renaissance Italy. The Renaissance coincided with a period of chronic, constantly recurring plague, unremitting warfare and pervasive insecurity. Consequently, people felt a need for mental escape to alternative, idealized realities, distant in time or space from the unendurable present but made vivid to the imagination through literature, art, and spectacle.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Frontispiece, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Foreword
  2. Michael Lewis
  3. pp. xiii-xiv
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. xv-xx
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xxi-xxiv
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  1. 1. The Myth of the Renaissance
  2. pp. 1-20
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  1. 2. The Four Horsemen
  2. pp. 21-47
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  1. 3. Corsignano and Siena
  2. pp. 48-64
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  1. 4. The Exile
  2. pp. 65-89
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  1. 5. The Cleric
  2. pp. 90-110
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  1. 6. The Road to Mantua
  2. pp. 111-126
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  1. 7. Renaissance Chivalry
  2. pp. 127-143
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  1. 8. Mantua and After
  2. pp. 144-168
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  1. 9. The Political Pope
  2. pp. 169-188
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  1. 10. A Room of One’s Own
  2. pp. 189-206
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  1. 11. Plague and Pleasure: 1462
  2. pp. 207-225
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  1. 12. The Age of Spectacle
  2. pp. 226-244
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  1. 13. Pienza
  2. pp. 245-257
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  1. 14. Urban Dreams
  2. pp. 258-274
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  1. 15. Visits to Antiquity
  2. pp. 275-294
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  1. 16. Villas and Gardens
  2. pp. 295-311
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  1. 17. The Crusade
  2. pp. 312-333
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  1. 18. The Art of Copiousness
  2. pp. 334-358
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  1. 19. Conclusion. Pius and His Period
  2. pp. 359-372
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  1. Appendix. Plague in Italy, 1347–1700
  2. pp. 373-380
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 381-394
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 395-408
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