Introduction to the Third Edition: Edward Chaney.

Preface to the First Edition.

1. The Beginnings of Interest: mid-Sixteenth to mid-Seventeenth Centuries.

2. From Description to Speculation: mid-Seventeenth to Late Eighteenth centuries.

3. Taste for Italian Paintings: I Sixteenth to Late Eighteenth Centuries.

4. The Medici and William Roscoe: Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries.

5. Taste for Italian Paintings: II Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries.

6. Prejudice and the Term Renaissance: Early to mid-Nineteenth Century.

7. Taste for Italian Paintings: III Early Nineteenth Century to Ruskin.

8. John Addington Symonds.

Notes.

Bibliographical Note.

Index