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Chapter V: Part II: The Development of the Individual

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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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