CHAPTER II.. Religion in Daily Life.

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