1 Introduction: Francis Bacon and the Theologico-Political Reconfiguration of Desire in the Early Modern Period, Guido Giglioni.- 2 Appetites, Matter and Metaphors: Aristotle, Physics I, 9 (192a22-23) and Its Renaissance Commentators, D.C. Andersson.- 3 Lists of Motions: Francis Bacon on Material Disquietude, Guido Giglioni.- 4 Bacon's Apples: A Case Study in Baconian Experimentation, Dana Jalobeanu.- 5 Prolongatio Vitae and Euthanasia in Francis Bacon, Marta Fattori.- 6 Francis Bacon's Flux of the Spirits and Renaissance Paradigms of Hybridity and Adaptation, Miranda Anderson.- 7 Cupido, sive Atomus; Dionysus, sive Cupiditas: Francis Bacon on Desire, Guido Giglioni.- 8 The Ethics of Motion: Self-Preservation, Preservation of the Whole and the 'Double Nature of the Good' in Francis Bacon, Silvia Manzo.- 9 Francis Bacon on the Motions of the Mind, Sorana Corneanu.- 10 Francis Bacon on the Moral and Political Character of the Universe, James A.T. Lancaster.- 11 A More Perfect Union: Bacon's Correspondence of Form and Policy, Vera Keller.- 12 Bacon's Idola in Vernacular Translations: 1600-1900, Marialuisa Parise.