383
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CHAPTER IV. THE HIGHER FORMS OF SOCIETY.
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Rules and statutes
|
384
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The novelists and their society
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384
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The great lady and the drawing-room
|
385
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Florentine society
|
386
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Lorenzo’s descriptions of his own circle
|
387
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CHAPTER V. THE PERFECT MAN OF SOCIETY.
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His love-making
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388
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His outward and spiritual accomplishments
|
389
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Bodily exercises
|
389
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Music
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390
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The instruments and the Virtuosi
|
392
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Musical dilettantism in society
|
393
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CHAPTER VI. THE POSITION OF WOMEN.
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Their masculine education and poetry
|
396
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Completion of their personality
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397
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The Virago
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398
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Women in society
|
399
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The culture of the prostitutes
|
399
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CHAPTER VII. DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
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Contrast to the Middle Ages
|
402
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Agnolo Pandolfini (L. B. Alberti)
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402
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The villa and country life
|
404
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CHAPTER VIII. THE FESTIVALS.
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Their origin in the mystery and the procession
|
406
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Advantages over foreign countries
|
408
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Historical representatives of abstractions
|
409
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The Mysteries
|
411
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Corpus Christi at Viterbo
|
414
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Secular representations
|
415
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Pantomimes and princely receptions
|
417
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Processions and religious Trionfi
|
419
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Secular Trionfi
|
420
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Regattas and processions on water
|
424
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The Carnival at Rome and Florence
|
426
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PART VI. MORALITY AND RELIGION.
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CHAPTER I. MORALITY.
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Limits of criticism
|
431
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Italian consciousness of demoralization
|
432
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The modern sense of honour
|
433
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Power of the imagination
|
435
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The passion for gambling and for vengeance
|
436
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Breach of the marriage tie
|
441
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Position of the married woman
|
442
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Spiritualization of love
|
445
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General emancipation from moral restraints
|
446
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|
Brigandage
|
448
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|
Paid assassination: poisoning
|
450
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Absolute wickedness
|
453
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Morality and individualism
|
454
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CHAPTER II. RELIGION IN DAILY LIFE.
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Lack of a reformation
|
457
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Relations of the Italian to the Church
|
457
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Hatred of the hierarchy and the monks
|
458
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The mendicant orders
|
462
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The Dominican Inquisition
|
462
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The higher monastic orders
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463
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Sense
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