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CHAPTER V.. General Disintegration of Belief.

The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy · Jacob Burckhardt — chapter 33 of 79 · ~47 words · public domain

GENERAL DISINTEGRATION OF BELIEF.

Last confession of Boscoli 543

Religious disorder and general scepticism 543

Controversy as to immortality 545

The pagan heaven 545

The Homeric life to come 546

Evaporation of Christian doctrine 547

Italian Thei 548

PART I.

THE STATE AS A WORK OF ART.