Overture: encountering the Eternal City
Genealogies of imperfection
Monti: paradoxes of poverty
The cadences of a cultural preserve
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
4. Refractions of Social Life
Segmentation and subsidiarity
Theaters of piety and peculation
5. Life and Law in a Flawed State
The (disreputable) origins of legal loopholes
Forgiveness and calculation
Sacred images and sinful spaces
6. Scandals of Sociability
Restitution and redemption
Local narratives: swaggering victims
7. Extortionate Civilities
Accommodations civil and civic
Discommoding complicities
Uncivil pleasantries, unpleasant civilities
Lessons in civic civility
Spatial and stylistic violence
8. The Fine Art of Denunciation
The logic of denunciation
Fractured authority: the multiplicity of policing
Extorting coffee and Campari
9. Tearing the Social Fabric Renters and owners
Eviction and evasion: the high stakes of time and place
Gentrification and the last frontier
Coda: The Future of Eternity.
