A.

ABBIOSO, Bishop, his courtiership, ii.

329

Academies, tendency of, in Italy, ii.
398

Ages of Faith, i. 85

Agricola, theologian, draws up the
Interim, ii. 135

Albert of Brandenburg, ii. 171-
throws himself into Schweinfurth,
172-is driven out of Schwein-
furth, 176

Aldobrandini, Cardinal, dedicated

works to Isabella Andreini, ii. 212
Alexander VI., election of, i. 214—
receives Catherine as a prisoner
courteously, 256-accuses her of
conspiring to poison him, 257--his
death, 262

Alexander VII. elected, ii. 362-his
replies to Olympia's advances, 363
-banishes Olympia to Orvieto,
364

Alphonso of Naples abdicates, i. 273
Alphonso I. Duke of Ferrara, ii.
37-rides through Ferrara at the
Beffana, 45-stolen visit to his
bride, 47-his difficulties with the
church, 50

Alternatives for an old lady, ii. 21
Aminta of Tasso, ii. 218
Ammirato, the historian, his mention
of Catherine, i. 27-his account of
Sforza's visit to Florence, 99
Andreini, Isabella, her birth, ii. 205-
contemporary with Shakspeare, 206
-her titles, 210-goes to France,
211-medal struck in her honour, ib.
-anagrams on her name, 212-
praises of, by her contemporaries,
ib.-her irreproachable character,

214 her death and epitaph, ib.-
her "Mirtilla," 216-her letters,
ib.-her dialogues, 217-no ac-
count of her characters, 218
Andreini, Francesco, Isabella's hus-
band, ii. 213

Andreini Giovanni Batista, Isabella's
son, ii. 211

Angelio of Bargo, Astrologer, ii. 28
Anna d' Este, her birth, ii. 77-
Calcagnini's letter to her, 78-
Curione's praises of her, ib.-her
affection for Olympia Morata, 89–
her marriage, 109

Antonio de' Medici, birth of, ii. 264
Antonio, the painter, anecdote of,
i. 159

Apennines, travelling in, in the
fifteenth century, i. 98

Arcadia and the Arcadians, ii. 399
-nicknames, 404-falschood in
the matter of Corilla's crowning,
406
Assassinations, common in Florence,
ii. 225, 236

Auditor of Forlì, his doubts, i. 224
Augsburg in the sixteenth century,
ii. 143

Avignon, restoration of the papacy
from, i. 25

Avvogaria, register of, obliteration
in, ii. 221

B.

Balatrone, C., servant of the Riarii,
i. 257

Bâle, Olympia would willingly settle.
at, ii. 155

Baker, anecdote of, about B. Cappello,
ii. 223

Barbara, Olympia Morata's maid, ii.
163

Bargello of Inola, i. 232—his bargain

with Catherine, ib.

Barlow, Dr. H. C., his letter on
Fontebranda, i. 398

Bassi Antonio, scene at his death-
bed, i. 129

Bayle, his remark on Isabella Andre-
ini's epitaph, ii. 215
Beatification, i. 9

"Beffana," curious custom, ii. 44
Belvidere, near Ferrara, gardens of,
ii. 94

Bembo, anecdote of, ii. 61-his cha-
racter, ii. 105-Olympia Morata's
epitaph on him, 106
Benincasa Giacomo, i. 6
Bentivoglio, Lord of Bologna, threatens
the Forlivesi, i. 192
Bianca Cappello, early character, ii.
223-her journey to Florence, 224
-confined to her husband's house
in Florence, 225her personal
appearance, 226-receives promise
of marriage from Francesco, 234-
probably cognisant of her husband's
murder, 236-her character, 241
-balances her accounts, 257—
fictitious autobiography of, 258-
her magical practices, 261-plot
to impose a false heir on the Duke,
262 her fears, 264-progress in
crime, 266-real nature of her
witchery, 268-her bold step with
Francesco, ib.goes into retire-
ment, 273-her ascendancy over
the Duke, ib.-entertains the Court
in the Oricellari gardens, 276-
suborns Francesco's confessor, 290
-her reception at Bologna, 291-
her marriage with Francesco, 292
-her coronation as daughter of
St. Mark, 299-becomes reconciled
to the Cardinal, 304-her claims
respecting her daughtership of St.
Mark, 311-her repeated pregnan-
cies, 313 her unhappy life at
Pratolino, 316-her family feeling,
318-at Cerveto, 320-declares
herself again with child, 322-her
interview with Pietro, 325-her
pregnancy again comes to nothing,
329 her death, 332-different

theories respecting it, 333, et seq.
-post-mortem examination, 338-
grounds of Ferdinando's hatred for
her, 342-her burial, 343-pas-
quinades on her, 344

Bigazzi, Signor Pietro, i. 398-407
Biographer's duty, i. 269

Boccaccio, Tullia's opinion of his
works, ii. 24-Olympia Morata's
translation from, 103

Bodoni's volume on Corilla's corona-
tion, ii. 403

Bolsec, Jerome, ii. 111-his disputes
with Calvin, 112

Bona, Duchess of Milan, i. 92
Bona Sforza, Duchess, her trousseau,
i. 317

Bonaventura, Catherine of Siena's
sister, miraculously punished, i.
36
Bonaventuri, Pietro, his condemnation,
ii. 221-deceives Bianca, 224—
receives an appointment at Court,
233-lover of Cassandra Ricci, 235
-murdered in the streets of Flo-
rence, 236

Books, high value of, in the sixteenth
century ii. 160

Borghese family refuse to admit the
relationship to them of St. Cathe-
rine, i. 88

Borso, Duke of Ferrara, ii. 34
Burlamacchi, father F., i. 18

C.

Cafaggiuolo, villa of, ii. 255
Calcagnini, Celio, ii. 56-his message
to Olympia Morata, 62.
Calvin at Ferrara, ii. 72-turned
out from Ferrara, 75-prosecutes
Jerome Bolsec, 112

Calza, Compagnia della, at Venice,
i. 113

Candles, blessed by the Pope, as a
safeguard in travelling, i. 134
Cappello palace, situation of, ii. 222
Caraffa, Cardinal, ii. 80

Cardona, Don Raymond di, reviews
his army, i. 307

Carnesecchi, the martyr, i. 361
Carpi, Tommaso, Pope Alexander's
chamberlain, i. 258

rilla, 401

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Catherine of Siena, her story puz-
zling, specially so from the recent-
ness of its date, i. 2; her home
described, 7; her bed-chamber, 8;
her family, 19; not well-looking,
20; her travels, 24-her letters to
Pope Urban, 27 her brothers
made citizens of Florence, 29-did
really restore the papacy to Rome,
30-legendary nature of her bio-
graphy, 32-at five years old, 33
-her early austerities, 34- her
confessions, ib.-her fasting, 37-
her communications with our Sa-
viour, 38-learns to read by miracle,
ib.-her marriage, 39-her renewed
heart, ib.her visions, 40-she is
joked with by our Saviour, ib.-
her charity to Christ in the disguise
of a beggarman, 41-she converts
sinners, 43-receives the stigmata,
47-ministers to the sick, 49-
literary phase of her character, 51
-her Dialogue of Divine Doctrine,
ib.-her prayers, 54-her letters,
55-miraculously taught to write,
58-prayer by her in Tuscan verse,
62-writes reproof to the Pope, 65
-her letter to Charles V. of France,
67-how far was she sincere, 77-
her moral standard, 80-her great
valuo to the Dominicans, 82-her
influence still operative, 83-her
strength of character, 85-her am-
bition, 86

Cerreto, Ducal Villa, ii. 320
Cervino, Cardinal, Vittoria Colonna's
letter to, i. 389

439

Cesena, troops brought from, against
Forlì, i. 192

Charles VIII. of France invades Italy,
i. 217-abandons Naples, 274-
death, 276

Charles V. visits Vittoria Colonna,
i. 351-short-sighted in the matter
of the Interim, ii. 136-anecdote
of his reception by the Fuggers,
143-in winter quarters at Inn-
spruck, 169-escapes to Villach,
170

Chattel property, importance of, in
fifteenth century, i. 140

Christ appears to St. Catherine as a
beggarman, i. 41

Clan, solidarity in medieval Italy,
i. 227

Clare St., convent fire at, i. 297
Classical studies, female, in sixteenth
century, ii. 2, et seq.

Clement VII., Pope, his dealings
with the Duke of Ferrara, ii. 51,
et seq.

Cobelli Leon, the chronicler, i. 144
Codronchi Innocenzio; the seneschal

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Colonna, Cardinal, plundered, i. 161
Colonna family, power, and wealth
of, i. 279
persecuted by Alex-
ander VI., 235 grants of land
to them, 292-at war with Pope
Clement, 330-Fabrizio, his po-
litical conduct, 290- his death,
319

Colonna Vittoria; her parents, i. 277
-eldest child, and not youngest, as
the biographers say, 278-be-
trothed to Pescara, 283-educated
by Duchessa di Francavilla, ib.-
her beauty, 288-presents received
from, and made to her husband,
299 her marriage, 300 ber
honeymoon in Ischia, 301- her
epistle to her husband, 304-con-
tinues childless, 306-educates the
Marchese del Vasto, ib.-her life
in Ischia, 312-sees her husband
for the last time, 319-Varchi's

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character of her, 323-no trace of
patriotic sentiment in her writings,
325-her widowhood, 328-retires
to the convent of San Silvestro in
Capite, 329 returns to Ischia,
330-character of her sonnets, 331
-specimens of them, 332 her
desire to die, 337-her idea of her
husband's goodness, 338- what
was the real nature of her senti-
ments towards her husband's me-
mory, 339-her purity of character,
340-in Rome in 1530, 346-her
rambles in Rome, ib.—her intima-
cies, 350 her religious poetry,
351 visited by Charles V., ib.
-visits Lucca and Ferrara, ib.-
her protestant tendencies, 352-
welcomed to Ferrara by Ercole
d'Este, ib.-thinks of visiting the
Holy Land, 354-returns to Rome,
b.-submissive to the church, 361
-her devotional sonnets, 369, et seq.
-no moral sentiments in her poetry,
372-absence of all patriotic feel-
ing in her sonnets, 376-arrives in
Rome from Ferrara, 377-opinions
of her poetry by contemporary
critics, ib.her influence with
Paul III., 378- her friendship
with Michael Angelo, ib.-goes to
Orvieto, and returns to Rome, 332
-question of her orthodoxy, 383
-conversation with Michael An-
gelo, 387-at Viterbo, 388-her
letter to Cervino, 389-returns for
the last time to Rome, 390-Fra-
castoro consulted on her health, ib.
-sorrows in her last days, 391-
her death, ib.

Colours, favourite, in fifteenth cen-
tury, i. 406

Columbano, Princess, takes La Corilla
to Naples, ii. 396

Comedy, Italian, in the sixteenth cen-
tury, ii. 208

Confessional, Vittoria Colonna on, i.
365

Convent-building, investment in, i.
172
Conversation in the fifteenth century,
i. 384

Conversions operated by St. Catherine,

i. 43

Corilla, La, her real name and birth,
ii. 395-drives a thriving trade,
399-employed by Maria Theresa,
401 invited by Catherine of
Russia, 401-by Joseph II., 402
-enters Arcady, 403-proposals
for her crowning, 405-the ditti-
culty in the way, ib.-subjects in
which she was examined, 408-
her examination, 409, et seq.-her
coronation, 113- pasquinades on
her-retirement to Florence and
death, 416

Corio, his history of Milan, i. 400
Corsi, Rinaldo, his commentary on
Vittoria Colonna's poetry, i. 348
Cosmo I., sonnet to, ii. 15
Cosmo de' Medici, court of, ii. 227
Cosmo I. of Florence, founds the Flo-
rentine academy, ii. 398

Costume, female, in fifteenth century,
i. 401

Costume at Venice in the end of fif-

teenth century, i. 113

Creeds, affairs of head not heart, ii.
122

Crucifixion, sonnet on, by Vittoria
Colonna, i. 374

Cuppani, L., copyist of Catherine's
book of secrets, i. 264
Curione, Celio, ii. 56-first acquaint-
ance with Morato, 65-his adven-
tures, ib.-conversations with Mo-
rato, 66-visit to Ferrara, 69-
his letter to Olympia's mother, 140
-encourages Olympia in her classi-
cal studies, 147

Cynicism of Catherine, i. 267
Cynicism, singular instance of, i. 401
Cyprian dresses, i. 124

D.

Dante's obligations to Guerrino il
Meschino, ii. 22

Death, the desire for, ii. 194

Della Crusca, Academy of, approves of

St. Catherine's style, i. 64

Demimonde and Monde in sixteenth

century, ii. 16

Despotism in Italy, its results, i. 239
Dialogue on Love, Tullia's, ii. 27
Diction, over-attention to, in Italy,
ii. 83

Divine doctrine, book of, by St. Cathe-

rine, i. 51-specimen of, 53
Dominicans, church of, at Bologna,
ii. 366

Dominican Order, St. Catherine de-
voted to, i. 80-of important value
to, 82, 87

Dominican monks, Catherine of

Siena's special reverence for, i. 34
Domenichi Ludovico, ii. 17
Donati, Maria, B. Cappello's servant,
ii. 222

Drama, Italian literature weak in,

ii. 206

E.

Ecstasies of St. Catherine, i. 21
Eleonora di Teledo, patronises Tullia,
ii. 28-her death, 228
Eleonora di Garzia, ii. 240 — her
murder, 255

Emilio, Olympia's brother accom-
panies her to Italy, ii. 141-falls
out of window, 150-his death,
198

Erbach, counts of, ii. 178-receive
Olympia, 179- their mode of life,
180

Ercolani Ludovico, Riano's butler, his
faithful services after his master's
murder, i. 182, et seq.
Ercole d'Este welcomes Vitt. Colonna
to Ferrara, i. 352

Ernest of Saxony arrives in Rome, i.
131-honours shown him, 132
Executions in Forlì, i. 201

F.

Faith, justification by, doctrine of,
why obnoxious to the Catholic
Church, i. 359

Falsehood, St. Catherine guilty of,
i. 79

Family feeling in Italy, ii. 317

Famine at Rome, A. n. 1482, i. 155

441

Famine in Ferrara, ii. 49
Fannio, the martyr, ii. 115, 118
Felony in ermine, 147
Feo, Tommaso, made Castellano of
Ravaldino, i. 179-his speech to
the insurgents, 190-turned out of
his place, 209

Feo, Giacomo, i. 207-his marriage
with Catherine, 210-made Cas-
tellano, ib.-honours heaped on
him, 211-made Baron by the
French King, 220-his assassina-
tion, 221

Ferdinando de' Medici, Cardinal, ii.

237-his causes of discontent, 245
-his knowledge of all that passed
at Florence, 246-receives the con-
fession of the woman who managed
the introduction of Don Antonio,
266 his indignation, 267-his
change of conduct after the death
of the Duchess Giovanna, 287-
goes to Florence in 1579, 293-
his anger at leaving his brother's
marriage, 294-his pecuniary diffi-
culties, 304 his reconciliation
with Bianca, 305-his misgivings
respecting Bianca's intentions, 319,
et seq.-again in Florence, 326-
refuses his brother's invitation, 328
-visits Francesco for the Villeggia-
tura, 330-suspected of poisoning
Francesco and Bianca, 334, 337,
et seq.-his conduct after the death
of his brother, 341-his probable
motives, ib.-succeeds peaceably to
his brother, 345

Ferdinand of Naples, death, i. 273 1
Ferdinand II. of Naples, i. 274-his
death, 293

Ferdinand of Spain, i. 275-his entry
into Naples, i. 295

Fernandez, Fernando, La Corilla's
husband, ii. 396

Ferrara, Court of, i. 351-modern
appearance of, ii. 32-under its
old Dukes, 33, et seq.-increase of,
35-noted for its learned men, 37
-famine and pestilence in, 49—
Calvin at, 72-Paul III's. visit tc,
94-curious alteration in the level
of the soil, 97

Festivities at Lucrezia Borgia's mar-
riage, ii. 44, 48