1. The forked road to modernity: Ambiguities of the renaissance facade
2. Domestic architecture and Boccaccian drama: Court and city in Florentine culture
3. Between opacity and rhetoric: The facade in Trecento Florence
4. The facade in question: Brunelleschi
5. The bones of grammar and the rhetoric of flesh
6. Setting and subject: The city of presences and the street as stage
7. Bramante and the emblematic facade
8. Facades on parade: Architecture between court and city
9. From street to territory: Projections of the urban facade.