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:Popoloand 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         .