A survey of the popes and the Italian clergy during the century preceding the Reformation.

Preface; 1. Problems of Italian church history; 2. Diocesan and parochial organisation; 3. The Schism in Italy: the emergence of an Italian papacy; 4. The state of the clergy and laity in fifteenth-century Italy; 5. The quality of Italian religious life: reform; 6. The Italian Renaissance and the clergy of Italy in the fifteenth century; Appendix; Notes; References; Index.