Chapter V: Part II: The Development of the Individual
CHAPTER I.
THE ITALIAN STATE AND THE INDIVIDUAL.
The mediæval man 129
The awakening of personality 129
The despot and his subjects 130
Individualism in the Republics 131
Exile and cosmopolitanism 132
CHAPTER II.
THE PERFECTING OF THE INDIVIDUAL.
The many-sided men 134
The universal men 136
CHAPTER III.
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
CHAPTER IV.
MODERN WIT AND SATIRE.
Its connection with individualism 154
Florentine wit: the novel 155
Jesters and buffoons 156
Leo X. and his witticisms 157
Poetical parodies 158
Theory of wit 159
Railing and reviling 161
Adrian VI. as scapegoat 162
Pietro Aretino 164
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