Acknowledgements List of Figures Prologue: A Dealer's Problem with the Government Introduction 1 From Rome to Berlin: The Illicit Export of the Bust of the Princess of Urbino 1.1 The Bust of the Princess of Urbino 1.2 Acquisition 1.3 Illicit Exportation 1.4 Investigation and Trial2 The Buying Collector: Wilhelm Bode and the Demand for Italian Renaissance Art 2.1 Why the Art of the Italian Renaissance? 2.2 A Renaissance Beauty at All Costs 2.3 The Big Players 2.

4 Meraviglie3 The Enquiring Inspector: Giuseppe Fiorelli and the Lacuna in Italian Art Export Law 3.1 Unenviable Status Quo 3.2 What Happens When a Raphael Is Taken Away? 3.3 Bereft and Grieving 3.4 Difficult Pathway to Success4 The Smuggling Dealer: Stefano Bardini and the Illicit Export of Artworks Out of Italy 4.1 Legal Matters 4.2 The Business of Exporting Art 4.3 There Is Always a Way 4.

4 Italian Combat5 The Foreign Strawman: Albert Figdor and the Role of Social Networks in Art Smuggling 5.1 How Does a Social Network in Collecting Work? 5.2 With a Little Help from My Friends 5.3 Looking for a Loophole Together 5.4 Everybody Does It Conclusion Epilogue: A Government's Problem with Dealers Appendix Bibliography Index.