Antiquity as example: Rome in the time of Petrarch and Cola di Rienzo
The poetics of the collection: Cardinal Prospero Colonna's "Gardens of Maecenas"
Fictive genealogies and ancestral collections in fifteenth-century Rome
The virtues of the papal collector: Paul II and Sixtus IV
Pomponio Leto and the academic garden
The era of collecting, 1480-1527
Epilogue: the Sack of Rome and the hanging garden of Cardinal Andrea della Valle
Catalogue of the collections in Roman houses and vigne before 1527.
