Evicted from Eternity

Preface and Acknowledgments
Overture: Encountering the Eternal City

Chapter One: 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

Chapter Two: Popolo and Population
            The Artisans
            The Shopkeepers
            Intellectuals and Politicians

Chapter Three: The Wages of Sin
            Accountability and Accommodation: Introducing Original Sin
            Original Sinners or Elder Brothers?
            The Dialectics of Casuistry and Tolerance
            A Passion for the Past

Chapter Four: 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

Chapter Five: 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

Chapter Six: 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

Chapter Seven: 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

Chapter Eight: The Fine Art of Denunciation
            The Logic of Denunciation
            Performances of Policing
            Fractured Authority: The Multiplicity of Policing
            Extorting Coffee and Campari

Chapter Nine: 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

Epilogue: The Future of Eternity
Notes
References
Index