Woman in Italy: From the Introduction of the Chivalrous Service of Love to the Appearance of the Professional Actress (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

William Boulting

9780332006154: Woman in Italy: From the Introduction of the Chivalrous Service of Love to the Appearance of the Professional Actress (Classic Reprint)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0332006158 ISBN 13: 9780332006154

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from Woman in Italy: From the Introduction of the Chivalrous Service of Love to the Appearance of the Professional Actress

History teaches us that in societies, as well as in individuals, intellectual development is in advance of ethical development, and mental ability may attain colossal proportions before the moral sense is greatly stirred. This was the case during the Renaissance, and, as a consequence, the unsocial side of that period was marked by consummate craftivln all great move ments there are undercurrents and back-sets, but the reader will probably discover that throughout the period with which this book deals, there was a pro gressive softening of manners, an improvement in the position of women, and a growth of human sympathy. Even religion, wherever it had real power over the heart, took on a more forbearing character.

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