I. 'Pro se de Magia': previous views

1. Some general remarks

2. Title, date, place and circumstances

3. The outcome of the trial

4. 'Publication' and historicity

II. 'Florida': previous views

1. Origin and title of the collection

2. The meaning of the title

3. Date of the collection

4. The problem of the preface to 'De deo Socratis'

III. 'Pro se de Magia': structural features

1. The narrative structure and the limitations of our knowledge

2. Formal structure

a) The ms. division into two books

b) The division of content (= sequence of points made)

IV. 'Florida': structural features

V. Macrorhythms

1. 'Pro se de Magia'

2. 'Florida'

VI. Mesorhythms, microrhythms and other stylistic elements

VII. 'Pro se de Magia' and 'Florida': strategies

1. The choice of status

2. Aims announced and inferred

VIII. The constitution of the text