CHAPTER VII.. Domestic Economy.

DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

Contrast to the Middle Ages 402

Agnolo Pandolfini (L. B. Alberti) 402

The villa and country life 404

CHAPTER VIII.

THE FESTIVALS.

Their origin in the mystery and the procession 406

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