Nifo amused himself by cataloguing the motives leading to love or “re-love.” He found fifteen chief motives: (1) Youth. (2) Nobility (since aristocracy springs from love, and love from aristocracy). (3) Wealth, a tainted source, but abundant. (4) Power. It is to this last that he maliciously ascribes the love of princesses, the best and most practical of all. Ambitious by destiny, he says, princesses necessarily yearn for glory; wherefore they are more accessible than others, and no one renders love graver, loftier, more substantial. (5) Beauty, a very stimulating factor, but secondary. (6) The mere rapture of the senses. Alas! many women, even in the highest stations, must have owed shameful connections to this cause! (7) Fame. The thought of hearing themselves sung about, of seeing themselves in pictures and statues, of being analysed and made the subject of dissertations, is a strong incentive to love: women love posterity in this guise. (8) The love of love, the artistic pleasure in knowing themselves loved, adored. (9) Elegant love, a matter of gay doublets and a good stable. (10) Obsequious love, not very amusing, but practical and very common; a love made up of little attentions, little symbolic presents, balls and banquets; Nifo had seen Prince Ferdinand of Salerno win his lady by means of a ball. And after these principal categories, there come secondary inducements to love, which, in spite of their commonness, are constantly successful; fine melodramatic rages, comprising disdain, jealousy, frenzy—all excellent investments; or the more peaceable and rudimentary means, such as entertainments (provided they are intellectual), flattery (highly recommended), prayer, this too, excellent, according to the maxim of Martial— Nor prayer nor incense e’er did Jove despite. Lovers have only too many methods to choose from, and the advantage of these sentiments (generally feigned), is that thanks to them anybody, however modest his resources, can find something to suit him; it is the bazaar of love. And thus raw individualism, the mainspring of human energy, was to become transformed and to tend towards a collective end.