| List of Illustrations |
| List of Tables |
| Preface |
| Abbreviations |
| The Universities of Italy / Part I.： |
| Bologna and Padua / 1.： |
| The Italian University |
| Bologna: Second Half of the Twelfth Century |
| Bologna in the Sixteenth Century |
| Padua, 1222 |
| Padua after 1509 |
| Naples, Siena, Rome, and Perugia / 2.： |
| Naples, 1224 |
| Siena, 1246 |
| Rome, 1240s |
| Perugia, 1308 |
| The Second Wave: Pisa, Florence, Pavia, Turin, Ferrara, and Catania / 3.： |
| Pisa, 1343 |
| Florence, 1348 |
| Pavia, 1361 |
| Turin, 1411-1413 |
| Ferrara, 1442 |
| Catania, 1445 |
| The Third Wave: Macerata, Salerno, Messina, and Parma / 4.： |
| Macerata, 1540-1541 |
| Salerno, c. 1592 |
| Messina, 1596 |
| Parma, 1601 |
| Incomplete Universities |
| Paper Universities |
| Conclusion |
| The University in Action / 5.： |
| The Organization of Instruction |
| Latin |
| Disputations |
| Civil Authority and Student Power |
| Professors |
| Student Living |
| Residence Colleges |
| The Doctorate |
| The Cost of Degrees |
| Alternate Paths to the Doctorate |
| Doctorates from Counts Palatine |
| The Counter Reformation |
| Teaching and Research / Part II.： |
| The Studia Humanitatis / 6.： |
| Grammar and Rhetoric in the Fourteenth-Century University |
| Humanists Avoid the University, 1370-1425 |
| Humanists Join the University, 1425-1450 |
| Humanistic Studies Flourish, 1450-1520 |
| Court and Classroom: Changing Employment for Humanists |
| Humanistic Studies at Other Universities |
| The Sixteenth Century |
| Curricular Texts |
| Humanists in the University: A Summation |
| Logic / 7.： |
| Logic at Padua |
| Logic at Other Universities |
| Demonstrative Regress |
| Natural Philosophy / 8.： |
| Aristotelian Curricular Texts |
| Greek Texts and Commentaries |
| Inanimate World, Scientific Method, and the Soul |
| The Debate on the Immortality of the Intellective Soul |
| The Immortality of the Soul after Pomponazzi |
| Platonic Philosophy in the Universities |
| Continuity and Decline of Aristotelian Natural Philosophy |
| The Medical Curriculum / 9.： |
| Medieval Medical Knowledge |
| The Medical Curriculum in 1400 |
| Medical Humanism |
| The Anatomical Renaissance |
| Bodies for Dissection |
| University Anatomy after Vesalius |
| Clinical Medicine |
| Medical Botany |
| Theology, Metaphysics, and Sacred Scripture / 10.： |
| From Mendicant Order Studia to Faculties of Theology |
| Faculties of Theology |
| Doctorates of Theology |
| Theology, Metaphysics, and Sacred Scripture at the University of Padua |
| Universities Teaching Theology Continuously |
| Universities Reluctant to Teach Theology |
| Erasmus's Doctorate of Theology |
| Teaching Texts |
| The Reputation of Theology |
| Italian Convent and University Theology, 1400-1600 |
| Moral Philosophy / 11.： |
| Moral Philosophy in the Late Middle Ages |
| Humanistic Moral Philosophy at the University of Florence |
| Moral Philosophy in Other Universities |
| Teaching Moral Philosophy |
| Mathematics / 12.： |
| Statutory Texts |
| The Renaissance of Mathematics |
| Professors of Astrology, Astronomy, and Mathematics |
| Luca Pacioli |
| The Progress of Mathematics |
| Law / 13.： |
| Mos Italicus |
| Humanistic Jurisprudence |
| The Decline of Canon Law |
| Padua and Bologna |
| Pavia and Rome |
| Siena and the Sozzini |
| Florence and Pisa |
| The Other Universities |
| Recessional / Part III.： |
| The Decline of Italian Universities / 14.： |
| Concern for the Universities |
| Competition from Religious Order Schools: The Jesuit School at Padua |
| Competition from Religious Order Schools: Schools for Nobles |
| Degrees from Local Colleges of Law and Medicine |
| Private Teaching and Other Pedagogical Abuses |
| Private Anatomy Teaching at Padua |
| The Shrinking Academic Calendar |
| Financial Problems |
| Faculty Provincialism |
| Student Violence |
| Positive Developments |
| A Weakened Institution |
| Faculty Size and Student Enrollments / Appendix： |
| Bibliography |
| Index |
| List of Illustrations |
| List of Tables |
| Preface |
| Abbreviations |
| The Universities of Italy / Part I.： |
| Bologna and Padua / 1.： |
