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 | |