Table of Contents
Rome and the empire, prehistory to AD 500 / Karl Christ -- The medieval centuries, 500-1350 / Bryan Ward-Perkins -- Humanism and Renaissance, 1350-1527 / J.R. Hale -- Disaster and recovery, 1527-1750 / Eric Cochrane -- The age of romanticism, 1750-1860 / Francis Haskell -- Modern Italy, 1860 to the present / Franco Andreucci.