Dr Humfrey Butters (1946-2019) was Emeritus Reader in History at the University of Warwick.Dr Gaby Neher is Associate Professor in Art History at the University of Nottingham.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS, EDITORIAL, INTRODUCTION, I PROLOGUE The historiography of the Renaisssance State Humfrey C. Butters II WARFARE: POLITICS AND BATTLES, FIGHTERS AND CIVILIANS, NARRATION AND ANALYSIS War and Beatitude: the case of the fall of Venetian Negroponte to the Turks (1470) Reinhold C. Mueller Patriots and Partisans: Venetian loyalists in the Terraferma and military support for the Republic in the war of the League of Cambrai (1509-17) Simon Pepper Depicting the Venetian Terraferma in wartime for a popular audience: popolano woodcuts inspired by the Cambrai War (1509-17) Krystina Stermole The figure of Fabrizio Colonna in Machiavelli's Arte della Guerra John Najemy Clash of Dukes: Cosimo I de' Medici, William of Cleves and the 'guerra di Dura' of 1543 Maurizio Arfaioli III POLITICAL LANGUAGE AND CAREERS, URBAN IDENTITY AND TRANSFORMATION, THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT Forms of political propaganda in late-medieval Florence Fabrizio Ricciardelli Venetian Gothic: a symbol of national identity? Richard Goy Sanudo's writings on Brescia: why the Terraferma matters Gabriele Neher Bodies Politic: the environment, public health and the state in early modern Venice Jane Stevens Crawshaw Libertà and 'protection' during the Italian Wars Christine Shaw Odious comparisons: Cosimo I, the Duke of Athens and Florence Suzanne B.Butters IV EPILOGUE Renaissance cities through Ruskinian eyes: an English architect in Italy in 1902 Stella Fletcher V MICHAEL E. MALLETT BIBLIOGRAPHY Humfrey C. Butters and Suzanne B. Butters INDEX.