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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
|
|
The Dominican Inquisition
|
462
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|
The higher monastic orders
|
463
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|
Sense of dependence on the Church
|
465
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|
The preachers of repentance
|
466
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Girolamo Savonarola
|
473
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Pagan elements in popular belief
|
479
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|
Faith in reliques
|
481
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Mariolatry
|
483
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|
Oscillations in public opinion
|
485
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|
Epidemic religious revivals
|
485
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|
Their regulation by the police at Ferrara
|
487
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CHAPTER III. RELIGION AND THE SPIRIT OF THE RENAISSANCE.
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Inevitable subjectivity
|
490
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|
Worldliness
|
492
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Tolerance of Mohammedanism
|
492
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Equivalence of all religions
|
494
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Influence of antiquity
|
495
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The so-called Epicureans
|
496
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|
The doctrine of free will
|
497
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The pious Humanists
|
499
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|
The less pronounced Humanists
|
499
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Codrus Urceus
|
500
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|
The beginnings of religious criticism
|
501
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|
Fatalism of the Humanists
|
503
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|
Their pagan exterior
|
504
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CHAPTER IV. MIXTURE OF ANCIENT AND MODERN SUPERSTITIONS.
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Astrology
|
507
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|
Its extension and influence
|
508
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|
Its opponents in Italy
|
515
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Pico’s opposition and influence
|
516
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|
Various superstitions
|
518
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|
Superstition of the Humanists
|
519
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Ghosts of the departed
|
522
|
|
Belief in dæmons
|
523
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The Italian witch
|
524
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|
Witches’ nest at Norcia
|
526
|
|
Influence and limits of Northern witchcraft
|
528
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|
Witchcraft of the prostitutes
|
529
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|
The magicians and enchanters
|
530
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|
The dæmons on the way to Rome
|
531
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Special forms of magic: the Telesmata
|
533
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|
Magic at the laying of foundation-stones
|
534
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|
The necromancer in poetry
|
535
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Benvenuto Cellini’s tale
|
536
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|
Decline of magic
|
537
|
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Special branches of the superstition
|
538
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CHAPTER V. GENERAL DISINTEGRATION OF BELIEF.
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Last confession of Boscoli
|
543
|
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Religious disorder and general scepticism
|
543
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|
Controversy as to immortality
|
545
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The pagan heaven
|
545
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The Homeric life to come
|
546
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Evaporation of Christian doctrine
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