DETAILED CONTENTS
PART I. I
“NEW ROME”—Abbe Froment in the Eternal City—His First Impressions—His
Book and the Rejuvenation of Christianity
II
“BLACK MOUTH, RED SOUL”—The Boccaneras, their Mansion, Ancestors,
History, and Friends
III
ROMANS OF THE CHURCH—Cardinals Boccanera and Sanguinetti—Abbes
Paparelli and Santobono—Don Vigilio—Monsignor Nani
CONTENTS TO PART II. IV
ROMANS OF NEW ITALY—The Pradas and the Saccos—The Corso and the Pincio
V
THE BLOOD OF AUGUSTUS—The Palaces of the Caesars—The Capitol—The
Forum—The Appian Way—The Campagna—The Catacombs—St. Peter’s.
VI
VENUS AND HERCULES—The Vatican—The Sixtine Chapel—Michael Angelo and
Raffaelle—Botticelli and Bernini—Gods and Goddesses—The Gardens—Leo
XIII—The Revolt of Passion
CONTENTS TO PART III. VII
PRINCE AND PONTIFF—The International Pilgrimage—The Papal Revenue—A
Function at St. Peter’s—The Pope-King—The Temporal Power
VIII
THE POOR AND THE POPE—The Building Mania—The Financial Crash—The
Horrors of the Castle Fields—The Roman Workman—May Christ’s Vicar
Gamble?—Hopes and Fears of the Papacy
IX
TITO’s WARNING—Aspects of Rome—The Via Giulia—The Tiber by Day—The
Gardens—The Villa Medici—-The Squares—The Fountains—Poussin and the
Campagna—The Campo Verano—The Trastevere—The “Palaces”—Aristocracy,
Middle Class, Democracy—The Tiber by Night
CONTENTS TO PART IV. X
FROM PILLAR TO POST—The Propaganda—The Index—Dominicans, Jesuits,
Franciscans—The Secular Clergy—Roman Worship—Freemasonry—Cardinal
Vicar and Cardinal Secretary—The Inquisition.
XI
POISON!—Frascati—A Cardinal and his Creature—Albano, Castel Gandolfo,
Nemi—Across the Campagna—An Osteria—Destiny on the March
XII
THE AGONY OF PASSION—A Roman Gala—The Buongiovannis—The Grey
World—The Triumph of Benedetta—King Humbert and Queen Margherita—The
Fig-tree of Judas
XIII
DESTINY!—A Happy Morning—The Mid-day Meal—Dario and the Figs—Extreme
Unction—Benedetta’s Curse—The Lovers’ Death
CONTENTS TO PART V. XIV
SUBMISSION—The Vatican by Night—The Papal Anterooms—Some Great
Popes—His Holiness’s Bed-room—Pierre’s Reception—Papal Wrath—Pierre’s
Appeal—The Pope’s Policy—Dogma and Lourdes—Pierre Reprobates his Book
XV
A HOUSE OF MOURNING—Lying in State—Mother and Son—Princess and
Work-girl—Nani the Jesuit—Rival Cardinals—The Pontiff of Destruction
XVI
JUDGMENT—Pierre and Orlando—Italian Rome—Wanted, a Democracy—Italy
and France—The Rome of the Anarchists—The Agony of Guilt—A
Botticelli—The Papacy Condemned—The Coming Schism—The March of
Science—The Destruction of Rome—The Victory of Reason—Justice not
Charity—Departure—The March of Civilisation—One Fatherland for All
Mankind
ROME
PART I.
I.
THE train had been greatly delayed during the night between Pisa and Civita Vecchia, and it was close upon nine o’clock in the morning when, after a fatiguing journey of twenty-five hours’ duration, Abbe Pierre Froment at last reached Rome. He had brought only a valise with him, and, springing hastily out of the railway carriage amidst the scramble of the arrival, he brushed the eager porters aside, intent on carrying his trifling luggage himself, so anxious was he to reach his destination, to be alone, and look around him. And almost immediately, on the Piazza dei Cinquecento, in front of the railway station, he climbed into one of the small open cabs ranged alongside the footwalk, and placed the valise near him after giving the driver this address: