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Contents
INTRODUCTORY NOTE | 1 |
CHAPTER I | 7 |
Other voyages of Colombo his death 1506 | 8 |
Colonising and missionary schemes Real character of Henriques enter | 14 |
Affonso in the Red Sea at Hormuz His death | 25 |
CHAPTER II | 37 |
PAGE | 50 |
Contents | 53 |
Berthold gives up his scheme Electoral Diet fresh plans of reform | 312 |
Need of money and men grants | 318 |
Maximilians capricious changes his military improvements | 324 |
CHAPTER X | 329 |
Literary and artistic development Revival of Learning | 369 |
Anjou absorbed 1481 Guyenne The Armagnacs | 400 |
Maximilian His marriage with Mary Maximilian in the Netherlands | 448 |
CHAPTER XIV | 463 |
Freedom in the New World Rome in the New World | 64 |
Successes of Scanderbeg his death 1467 Bosnia | 71 |
PAGE | 78 |
Venice makes peace 1479 Advance of the Muslims Capture of Otranto | 81 |
War with Hungary Szabács Semlin Belgrade captured 1521 Rhodes | 83 |
Solyman repulsed at Vienna 1529 The Ottoman State its Laws | 98 |
CHAPTER IV | 104 |
Piero at Florence Alexander VI at Rome Relations with Florence Milan | 110 |
paign | 117 |
The French defeated on the Garigliano 1503 Treaties of Louis with | 129 |
End of the reign of Louis XII 1515 The forces of Francis i cross | 140 |
Contrast of Savonarola and San Bernardino Controversy still alive | 144 |
Moral superiority of Florence Simplicity and sobriety of life | 150 |
Officials punished Soderini and Venetian institutions Preaching | 157 |
Savonarola on the duties of electors his financial proposals | 163 |
Later reaction Growth of parties Piagnoni Bigi Arrabbiati Francesco | 169 |
CHAPTER VI | 190 |
Good defined as that which serves the interests of the majority Influence | 209 |
The enemies of reform a republic incapable of curbing them Reform | 215 |
Nepotism and the papacy Sixtus IV Innocent VIII | 221 |
Troubles with Franceschetto Cibò the Orsini and Naples Allianc | 227 |
League against France Retreat of Charles VIII | 233 |
Sforza and Medici restored Plans of Julius | 240 |
CHAPTER VIII | 253 |
Extension of Carrara of Visconti Visconti occupies and loses Padua | 266 |
mercial families Closing of the Great Council 1297 Conspiracy of Bajamonte Tiepolo | 272 |
Her revenue Dalmatia and Friuli acquired Victory over Turks | 278 |
Life of the people Arts and letters Malipiero Sanudo Priuli | 284 |
Weakness of the great vassals The imperial Diet | 290 |
Cumbrous and expensive procedure Meetings of Electors | 291 |
Albert Achilles Elector of Brandenburg House of Wettin | 298 |
Landfriede Reichskammer | 305 |
Perkin in Ireland in Scotland James IV of Scotland Invades England | 469 |
His relations to foreign princes and towns | 476 |
Philip negotiates with France in opposition to Max Foreign policy | 477 |
Project to marry Mary to Charles of Castile Invasion of Scots Battle | 482 |
Relations to Maximilian Opposition between his interests and those | 486 |
Intrigues at Rome in favour of Wolsey Treaty with France 1518 | 489 |
CHAPTER XV | 493 |
Reform of the taille Use of royal money for remunerative work Canals | 505 |
Change of trade routes Failure of towns depending only on commerce | 530 |
Greek studies before the Renaissance Italy Constantinople | 543 |
654 | 555 |
Consolidation of monarchies in Europe Mores Utopia New views | 580 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 620 |
CHAPTER XIX | 653 |
Failure of the Councils Pretensions of the Popes in the fifteenth century | 664 |
128 | 672 |
THE NEW WORLD | 693 |
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132 | 793 |
Hebrew learning more common than Greek Nicholas de Lyra d 1340 | 794 |
Development of the monarchy Decay of other institutions | 795 |
55 | 796 |
138 | 801 |
562 | 802 |
313 | 803 |
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