Contents: Chapter 1. The Etna Idea - I: Pindar, Pythian 1 - II: Virgil and Lucretius - III: Seneca, Ovid and the Aetna Poet - IV: The Open-Ended Etna Idea

Chapter 2. From Memory to Modernity - I: Mnemonic Topography - II: Antiquarian Travel before Bembo - III: Urbano Bolzanio - IV: Etna as an Island, Noniano as a Memory Place - V: Petrarch on Mont Ventoux - VI: De Aetna and the History of Mountaineering - VII: Banishing Hellish Myth and Legend

Chapter 3. From Venice to Sicily: Bembo's Greek Education, His Teachers, His Inspirers - I: Poliziano, the Bembine Terence, and Bembo's Sogno - II: Bembo's Greek Studies in Messina - III: Absent Presences: Giorgio Valla and Ermolao Barbaro - IV: The Half-Story So Far

Chapter 4. De Aetna in the Context of Quattrocento Venetian Humanism - I: Ermolao Barbaro, Born for Letters, Bred for State-Service - II: The Evolution of Quattrocento Venetian Humanism - III: Pietro's Peers, Gli Asolani, and the Leggi della Compagnia degli Amici - (i) Angelo Gabriele - (ii) Gli Asolani, and Pietro's Correspondence with Trifone Gabriele - (iii) Vincenzo Quirini and Tommaso Giustiniani

Chapter 5. Physical Form and Textual Meaning in the Aldine Book: The Symbolic Significance of Typeface - I: Venice, the Rise of Printing, and the Aldine Press - II: The Aldine Octavo Hand-Book - III: The Interrelationship of Physical Form and Textual Meaning - IV: Bernardo Bembo, Petrarch's Laura, and Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de'Benci - V: End-Point, Start-Point

Chapter 6. Activations of Landscape in De Aetna - I: Venice, the Veneto, and Villa Culture - II: Father and Son in Pietro's Early Verses - III: The Recalibration of Perspective Through Contrasts of Landscape - IV: Shaping Etna's Landscape Through Poetic Inscription

Chapter 7. The Bembo Collection, and Evocations of Noniano - I: Pietro Bembo the Collector - II: Coins, Medals, and Valerio Belli's Bembo - III: Titian, Bembo, and Evocation of Sweet Noniano - IV: De Aetna and Naturalist Collecting - V: Bembo and Giovanni Bellini.

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