Introduction by Fabrizio Ricciardelli and Andrea Zorzi 1. Barbara H. Rosenwein - The Place of Renaissance Italy in the History of Emotions 2. Fabrizio Ricciardelli - The Emotional Language of Justice in Late Medieval Italy 3. Andrea Zorzi - The Anxiety of the Republics: 'Timor' in Italy of the Communes during the 1330s 4. Carol Lansing - Humiliation and the Exercise of Power in the Florentine Contado in the Mid-Fourteenth Century 5. Isabella Lazzarini - The Words of Emotion: Political Language and Discursive Resources in Lorenzo de Medici's Lettere (1468-1492) 6. Serena Ferente - Metaphor, Emotion, and the Languages of Politics in Late Medieval Italy: A Genoese Lamento of 1473 7. Daniel Smail - Debt, Humiliation, and Stress in Fourteenth-Century Lucca and Marseille 8. Samuel K. Cohn Jr. - Renaissance Emotions: Hate and Disease in European Perspective 9. Ori Z. Soltes - The Emotive Power of an Evolving Symbol: The Idea of the Dome from Kurgan Graves to the Florentine Tempio Israelitico 10. Andrea Gamberini - The Emotions of the State: A Survey of the Visconti Chancery Language (Mid 14th-mid-15th Centuries) 11. Gennaro Ferrante - Control of Emotions and Comforting Practices before the Scaffold in Medieval and Early Modern Italy (with Some Remarks on Lorenzetti's Fresco)