Overture: encountering the Eternal City
1. Sin and the City
Genealogies of imperfection
Monti: paradoxes of poverty
Sociable spaces
Meeting the people
The village in the city
Agonies and agonistics
The cadences of a cultural preserve
2. Popolo and Population
The artisans The shopkeepers
Intellectuals and politicians
3. The Wages of Original Sin
Accountability and accommodation: the pragmatics of original sin
Original sinners or elder brothers?
The dialectics of casuistry and tolerance
A passion for the past
4. Refractions of Social Life
Segmentation and subsidiarity
The civic and the civil
Association life
The premises of conflict
Theaters of piety and peculation
A clergy scorned
5. Life and Law in a Flawed State
Laws and regulations
The limits of law
The (disreputable) origins of legal loopholes
Indulgent complicities
Forgiveness and calculation
Sacred images and sinful spaces
6. Scandals of Sociability
Friends who strangle
The cultivation of fear
Restitution and redemption
Friends best avoided
A family friend?
Local narratives: swaggering victims
Credit and default
Banking on fear
Tactful silences
7. Extortionate Civilities
Accommodations civil and civic
Discommoding complicities
Uncivil pleasantries, unpleasant civilities
Culture and custom
Peaceful politics
Condominial civilities
Lessons in civic civility
Spatial and stylistic violence
8. The Fine Art of Denunciation
The logic of denunciation
Performances of policing
Fractured authority: the multiplicity of policing
Extorting coffee and Campari
9. Tearing the Social Fabric Renters and owners
Lawyers and illegalities
Eviction and evasion: the high stakes of time and place
Gentrification and the last frontier
Endgame
Coda: The Future of Eternity.