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Nicholas Scott Baker is Associate Professor of History at Macquarie University. He is the author of The Fruit of Liberty: Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550 (2013), several articles and book chapters, and co-editor of two volumes of essays on Italian Renaissance society and culture.
Introduction: Histories of the Future
1. Experts in Futurity
2. The Future in Play
3. Trust in the Future
4. The Mercantile Vocabulary of Futurity in the Sixteenth Century
5. The Renaissance Afterlife of Boethius's Allegory of Fortuna
6. The Emerging of a New Allegory in Mercantile Culture
7. The Shifting Image of Fortuna
8. The Separation of Fortuna and Providence
Conclusion: Time and the Renaissance.