Giovanni Caroli, the conduit of the sense of spiritual and political crisis in Florence
Introduction: Giovanni Caroli and his times
Liber dierum lucensium : Prooemium and book one
Liber dierum lucensium, book two
Liber dierum lucensium, book three
Humanist theology in practice
The historical context
Declamationum liber
The Turkish danger and its religious connotations
Classical, biblical, and patristic allusions : the disappearance of the doctors
The attitude to rhetoric
Ficino's praedicationes
Poliziano's sermons
Rinuccini's sermons
Nesi's sermons
Other sermons
Marsilio Ficino and the conditio religionis : quandiu duram et miserabilem hanc ferrei seculi sortem sustinebimus?
Some general introductory remarks
De christiana religione : the "manifesto" of the new humanist theology
Prisca religio and its divine inspiration : religion as the characteristic of man
Praeparatio evangelica
The incarnation as an intervention of the eternal in the temporal
The teachings of Christ
The apostles and the propagation of Christianity
The decline of the Christian world and Ficino's proposals for renewal
Giovanni Pico della mirandola and his theological method : between Opinio and fides
The theological crisis
Quia errare in opinione thomae, non est errare in fide-the dispute in Rome 1486 and the Apiologia
Pico's attitude to philosophy : between academic skepticism and religious certainty
The Savonarola affair-the government of God as republican practice
The Savonarola a'air : a case-study in the history and in the historiography of the Renaissance
Savonarola : an anti-humanist or a pro-humanist?
Savonarola and politics
The notion of reform : the transition from theology to politics
Spiritual and political vision : the preaching prophet and his slogan.