The fifteen essays on Italian art, society, and politics offer new perspectives on a wide range of subjects in Italian art history, architecture, history, and urban studies. Topics range from eleventhcentury urbanism in Florence and northern influences on Lombard painting to the re-writing of history in the nascent Italian State. All authors are alumni of Syracuse University's Florence Graduate Program in Renaissance Art. The volume is dedicated to Professor Rab Hatfield as a Festschrift on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. A renowned teacher and scholar in Italian Renaissance studies, Rab Hatfield has taught at Syracuse University in Florence since 1971.