.-- Foreword.-- Bibliographical notes and copyright acknowledgment (5th-6th prelim. Leaves) - The renaissance.-- Lorenzovalla.-- Charles the victorious.-- Henry Tudor.-- Niccolo Machiavelli.-- Raphael Santi.-- Phillippus Paracelsus.-- Ignatius Loyola.-- Catherine de'Medici.-- Don John of Austria.-- Jan Coen.-- An epilogue