CHAPTER III. RELIGION AND THE SPIRIT OF THE RENAISSANCE.
CHAPTER IV. MIXTURE OF ANCIENT AND MODERN SUPERSTITION.
CHAPTER V. GENERAL DISINTEGRATION OF BELIEF.
| PART I. THE STATE AS A WORK OF ART | |
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| 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 |
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