The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy. Jacob Burckhardt

CHAPTER II. RELIGION IN DAILY LIFE.

       CHAPTER III. RELIGION AND THE SPIRIT OF THE RENAISSANCE.

       CHAPTER IV. MIXTURE OF ANCIENT AND MODERN SUPERSTITION.

       CHAPTER V. GENERAL DISINTEGRATION OF BELIEF.

       INDEX.

PART I. THE STATE AS A WORK OF ART
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
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Political condition of Italy in the thirteenth century	4
The Norman State under Frederick II.	5
Ezzelino da Romano	7
CHAPTER II. THE TYRANNY OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.
Finance and its relation to culture	8
The ideal of the absolute ruler	9
Inward and outward dangers	10
Florentine estimate of the tyrants	11
The Visconti	12
CHAPTER III. THE TYRANNY OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
Intervention and visits of the emperors	18
Want of a fixed law of succession. Illegitimacy	20
Founding of States by Condottieri	22
Relations of Condottieri to their employers	23
The family of Sforza	24
Giacomo Piccinino	25
Later attempts of the Condottieri	26
CHAPTER IV. THE PETTY TYRANNIES.
The Baglioni of Perugia	28
Massacre in the year 1500	31
Malatesta, Pico, and Petrucci	33
CHAPTER V. THE GREATER DYNASTIES.
The Aragonese at Naples	35
The last Visconti at Milan	38
Francesco Sforza and his luck	39
Galeazzo Maria and Ludovic Moro	40
The Gonzaga at Mantua	43
Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino	44
The Este at Ferrara	46
CHAPTER VI. THE OPPONENTS OF TYRANNY.
The later Guelphs and Ghibellines	55
The conspirators	56
Murders in church	57
Influence of ancient tyrannicide	57
Catiline as an ideal	59