The reception of Plutarch's Lives in fifteenth-century Italy

v. 1. Part I Text

The reception of Plutarch in the Roman Empire and in Greek literature down to the thirteenth century

The revival of interest in Plutarch in the Latin West

Florence and Florentine humanism 1390-1414

Venice 1414-1440s: Venice as heir to the Greek city states and "Partician humanism"

North Italy: other translations

Guarino at Ferrara in the 1430s

Florence and the Roman Curia in the 1430s and '40s

The remaining lives

Conclusion

Appendix 1 Texts relating to Guarino

Appendix 2 Lapo's prefaces to Humphrey of Gloucester and Alfonso of Aragon 1437-38

v. 2. Part II Prefaces, List of Translations

Theseus & Romulus

Lycurgus & Numa

Solon & Publicola

Coriolanus & Alcibiades

Themistocles & Camillus

Pericles & Fabius Maximus

Pelopidas & Marcellus

Philopoemen & Flamininus

Aristides & Cato Maior

Timoleon & Aemilius Paulus

Agis et Cleomenes & Gracchi

Lysander & Sulla

Pyrrhus & Marius

Sertorius & Eumenes

Cimon & Lucullus

Nicias & Crassus

Agesilaus & Pompeius

Alexander & Caesar

Phocion & Cato minor

Dion & Brutus

Demosthenes & Cicero

Demetrius & Antonius

Artaxerxes

Aratus

Galba and Otho

Part III Catalogues

List of manuscripts containing Latin translation of Plutarch's lives and related texts.