The Historians' History of the World: Italy

Henry Smith Williams

Outlook Company, 1904 - World history

ITALY	1

CHAPTER I	15

CHAPTER II	45

CHAPTER III	63

CHAPTER IV	85

the succession 98 The pope and the cities	99

of Montaperti 102 The tyrant Ezzelino 104 The beginning of feudal tyranny	110

Ghibelline successes the Sicilian Vespers 112 Waning influence of king emperor	116

CHAPTER XII	349

of learning 353 Last years of Cosmo 356 Roscoes estimate of Cosmo 359 Cos	365

Lorenzos embassy to Naples 375 Peace with honour 376 Further papal	373

Last years of Lorenzo 386 Von Reumonts estimate of Lorenzo	388

ASPECTS OF LATER RENAISSANCE CULTURE	391

nardo da Vinci 395 The end of the mediaval epoch 398 The age of Michelangelo	406

Charles goes to Naples 420 Florentine affairs Savonarola 421 The French	414

in Milan 424 The French and Spaniards in Naples 428 Northern Italy 429	458

CHAPTER V	124

Castruccio Castracani 133 Florence menaced 135 The Florentine	156

Growing unpopularity of the duke of Athens 164 The duke driven from	176

European culture in general 181 The universities and nascent scholarship	183

Latin and the vernacular 184 The master poet and his theme 186 Dante	194

in the thirteen and fourteenth centuries 203 The Tuscan school of painters	207

opponents his friends his proclamations 218 Disaster succeeds victory	220

Anarchy and jubilee in Rome 223 Rienzi in exile his renewed opportunity	224

The kingdom of Naples 231 Joanna II 234 Alfonso the Magnanimous	237

Florence menaced by the Visconti 243 Charles IV in Italy 244 The 66 war	258

The Tiepolo conspiracy and the council of Ten 272 The story of Marino Fali	269

Venetian wars and conquests 275 Victories of Carmagnola 279 Death	286

cari	301

Venice in the Levant 308 The commercial forebears of the Venetians	310

Venetian glass 315 Other manufactures 318 The slave trade 319 The decline	324

account of the Ciompi insurrection 331 The eight saints of war 333 Mob vio	343

account of the battle of Lepanto 473 The general condition of Italy 477 Pope	481

Venetian wars with the Turks	518

CHAPTER XVII	524

War of the Polish Succession 532 War of the Austrian Succession 534 Forty	530

years of languid peace for divided Italy 536 The kingdom of Naples and Sicily	537

Milan and Tuscany 542 A Tuscan estimate of Leopold 546 Italy	565

THE NAPOLEONIC REGIME 18011815 A D	566

The kingdom of Naples and the papacy 570 The islands of Sicily and Sardinia	574

tions of 18201821 583 The revolutions of 1831 585 Sassone on Mazzini and ད young	591

The French restore the pope 597 Revolutions in Tuscany and else	614

The Roman question renewed 620 Papal infallibility proclaimed	621

Rome taken from the pope 621 The plebiscite 622 Rome again the capital	626

Death of King Humbert of Crispi and of Leo XIII	633

A GENERAL Bibliography oF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN ITALY	639

A CHRONOLOGical SummarY OF ITALIAN HISTORY	646

Copyright

Title	The Historians' History of the World: Italy Volume 9 of The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise and Development of Nations as Recorded by Over Two Thousand of the Great Writers of All Ages, Henry Smith Williams
Editor	Henry Smith Williams
Publisher	Outlook Company, 1904
Original from	the New York Public Library
Digitized	19 Sep 2005

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