| Illustrations | vi | |
| Acknowledgments | x | |
| Prologue | 1 | |
| Petrarch | 4 | |
| Eden | 6 | |
| The Unsettling of Tradition | 11 | |
| Notes | 13 | |
| Zisa and Cuba in Palermo | 25 | |
| Pavilions and Gardens | 28 | |
| The Painted Ceiling of the Cappella Palatina | 41 | |
| Function | 46 | |
| Notes | 57 | |
| Petrarch on the Bank of the Sorgue | 69 | |
| The Work | 72 | |
| A Milieu | 81 | |
| Notes | 93 | |
| Gold and Fleece: The Park at Hesdin | 99 | |
| Hesdin | 101 | |
| The Golden Fleece | 110 | |
| The Ghent Altarpiece | 114 | |
| The Wool Trade | 121 | |
| Notes | 130 | |
| The Cortile delle Statue in Rome: |
Collecting Fragments, Inducing Images | 143 |
| Notes | 178 | |
| Epilogue | 187 | |
| Notes | 191 | |
| Bibliography | 193 | |
| Index | 225 | |
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