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Read Ebook: The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Burckhardt Jacob Middlemore S G C Samuel George Chetwynd Translator
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Objectivity of political intelligence 74
Dante as a politician 75
Florence as the home of statistics: the two Villanis 76
Higher form of statistics 77
Florentine constitutions and the historians 82
Fundamental vice of the State 82
Political theorists 83
Macchiavelli and his views 84
Siena and Genoa 86
FOREIGN POLICY OF THE ITALIAN STATES.
Envy felt towards Venice 88
Relations to other countries: sympathy with France 89
Plan for a balance of power 90
Foreign intervention and conquests 91
Alliances with the Turks 92
Counter-influence of Spain 94
Objective treatment of politics 95
Art of diplomacy 96
WAR AS A WORK OF ART.
Firearms 98
Professional warriors and dilettanti 99
Horrors of war 101
THE PAPACY AND ITS DANGERS.
Relation of the Papacy to Italy and foreign countries 103
States of the Nipoti in Romagna 107
Cardinals belonging to princely houses 107
Relations with foreign countries 110
Simony 111
Caesar Borgia and his relations to his father 111
Caesar's plans and acts 112
Reaction consequent on the latter 123
The Papacy of the Counter-Reformation 124
Conclusion. The Italian patriots 125
THE ITALIAN STATE AND THE INDIVIDUAL.
The mediaeval man 129
The awakening of personality 129
The despot and his subjects 130
Individualism in the Republics 131
Exile and cosmopolitanism 132
THE PERFECTING OF THE INDIVIDUAL.
The many-sided men 134
The universal men 136
THE MODERN IDEA OF FAME.
Dante's feeling about fame 139
The celebrity of the Humanists: Petrarch 141
Cultus of birthplace and graves 142
Cultus of the famous men of antiquity 143
Literature of local fame: Padua 143
Literature of universal fame 146
Fame given or refused by the writers 150
Morbid passion for fame 152
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