The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy. Jacob Burckhardt

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