Some friars in English fiction.--The friar in German fiction.--Frère Jean des Entommeures.--The friars of Dante, Boccaccio and Machiavelli.--Two fictional friars.--Savonarola.--Joseph the dreamer.--Unity in art.--Sincerity in art.--Woman in the Italian novel.--The hearing of music as a sensuous and a spiritual pleasure.--Niccola Pisano, the father of modern Italian sculpture.--Edmondo de Amicis.--Some early printers and their colophons.--The fallen god.--Avignon.