Advantages over foreign countries 408 Historical representatives of abstractions 409 The Mysteries 411 Corpus Christi at Viterbo 414 Secular representations 415 Pantomimes and princely receptions 417 Processions and religious Trionfi 419 Secular Trionfi 420 Regattas and processions on water 424 The Carnival at Rome and Florence 426 PART VI. _MORALITY AND RELIGION._ CHAPTER I. MORALITY. Limits of criticism 431 Italian consciousness of demoralization 432 The modern sense of honour 433 Power of the imagination 435 The passion for gambling and for vengeance 436 Breach of the marriage tie 441 Position of the married woman 442 Spiritualization of love 445 General emancipation from moral restraints 446 Brigandage 448 Paid assassination: poisoning 450 Absolute wickedness 453 Morality and individualism 454 CHAPTER II. RELIGION IN DAILY LIFE. Lack of a reformation 457 Relations of the Italian to the Church 457 Hatred of the hierarchy and the monks 458 The mendicant orders 462 The Dominican Inquisition 462 The higher monastic orders 463 Sense of dependence on the Church 465 The preachers of repentance 466 Girolamo Savonarola 473 Pagan elements in popular belief 479 Faith in reliques 481 Mariolatry 483 Oscillations in public opinion 485 Epidemic religious revivals 485 Their regulation by the police at Ferrara 487 CHAPTER III. RELIGION AND THE SPIRIT OF THE RENAISSANCE.