Table of contents

Foreword - 1. Pontifical ratification of the Atlantic policy of the Iberian Potentates: the Alexandrian partition - 2. Insufficiency, in fact of Atlantic events, of the eminent power of the Caesarean Authority - 3. Suppletory intervention of the ecclesiastical Authority on account of an unlimited expansion of the "Imperium christianum" - 4. Affinities and dissimilarities between "negotium crucis" and "negotium barbarorum" - 5. Rigorous understanding of papal theocratism: the Pope "dominus et monarcha totius mundi" - 6. Pontifical investiture treated as the foundation of the "dominium Regum Hispaniae super indios" - 7. Contestation, with the beginning of the Modern Age, of papal theocratism - 8. Consequent political and juridical contestation of the hierocratic foundation of the Iberian colonial dominion - 9. Need to bring back, no longer to the "auctoritas sacrata pontificum," but to a reason of "ius humanum," the founding title of the Iberian colonial dominion - 10. Consolidated praise of the work of the "sapientísimo Vitoria" - 11. Vitoria's adherence to the Aristotelian-Thomistic thesis of the "naturalness" of social phenomenon - 12. Uncertain application of the principle to the natives of America - 13. Vitoria's recourse to an acquisitive reason based on "ius bellicum" - 14. Reference to "titulus naturalis societatis et communicationis" - 15. Reference to the "titulus religionis christianae propagandae": its dual function - 16. Reference to the "titulus religionis christianae propagandae": in relations with the natives of the "novus mundus" - 17. Consequent depiction of the "bellum contra indos" in the ways of a "bellum meritorium" - 18. Reference to "titulus religionis christianae propagandae": in relations with other Christian Potentates - 20. Reference to "ratio fovendae pacis inter christianos" to avoid hindrances to "conversio barbarorum" - 21. Contestation of the "divisio oceani" and the consequent "divisio mundi" - 22. Incipient "de mari libero" controversy.