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ACADEMIES, Italian, the flourishing time of, i. 52.
ACCIAIUOLI, Roberto, i. 33.
ACCOLTI, Benedetto, conspirator against Pius IV., i. 132.
ACCORAMBONI, Claudio (father of Vittoria), i. 356.
---Marcello (brother of Vittoria): intrigues for the marriage of his sister with the Duke of Bracciano, i. 358 _sqq._; procures the murder of her husband, 362; employs a Greek enchantress to brew love-philters, 365; his death, 372.
---Tarquinia (mother of Vittoria), i. 356.
---Vittoria, the story of, i. 355 _sqq._; her birth and parentage, 356; marriage with Felice Peretti, 357; intrigue with the Duke of Bracciano, 360; the murder of her husband, 362; her marriage with Bracciano, 364; annulled by the Pope, 364, 366; the union renounced by the Duke, 365; put on trial for the murder of Peretti, _ib._; their union publicly ratified by the Duke, 366; flight from Rome, _ib._; death of Bracciano, 367; her murder procured by Lodovico Orsini, 369.
"ACTS of Faith," i. 107, 176, 187.
ADMINISTRATOR, the (Jesuit functionary), i. 273.
"ADONE," Marino"s: its publication, ii. 264; critique of the poem, 266 _sqq._
ALBANI, Francesco, Bolognese painter, ii. 355, 358.
ALEXANDER VI., Pope, parallel between, and Pope Paul IV., i. 106.
ALFONSO II., Duke of Ferrara: sketch of his Court, ii. 28 _sqq._; his second marriage, 30; treatment of Ta.s.so, 38, 51, 53, 58, 60 _sqq._; his third marriage, 66; estimate of the reasons why he imprisoned Ta.s.so, 66 _sqq._
ALFONSO the Magnanimous: arrangements under his will, i. 4.
ALIDOSI, Cardinal Francesco, murder of, i. 36.
ALLEGORY, hypocrisy of the, exemplified in Ta.s.so, ii. 44; in Marino, 272; in Ortensi"s moral interpretations of Bandello"s _Novelle_, 272 _n._
ALTEMPS, Cardinal d" (Mark of Hohen Ems), legate at Trent, i. 119 _n._
ALVA, Duke of, defeat of the Duke of Guise by, i. 103.
"AMADIS of Gaul," the favorite book of Loyola in his youth, i. 232.
AMIAS, Beatrice, mother of Francesco Cenci, i. 346.
"AMINTA," Ta.s.so"s pastoral drama, first production of, ii. 39; its style, 114.
ANGELUZZO, Giovanni, Ta.s.so"s first teacher, ii. 12.
ANIMA Mundi, Bruno"s doctrine of, ii. 177.
ANTONIANO, a censor of the _Gerusalemme Liberata_, ii. 43.
---Silvio, a boy _improvvisatore_, anecdote of, ii. 328.
AQUAVIVA, the fifth General of the Jesuits, i. 248.
AQUITAINE, Duke of, Guercino"s painting of in Bologna, ii. 367.
ARAGONESE Dynasty, the, in Italy, i. 4.
ARBUES, Peter, Saint of the Inquisition in Aragon, i. 161, 178.
ARETINO, Pietro, i. 42, 70; satire of on Paul IV., 108.
"ARIE Divote," Palestrina"s, ii. 335.
ARISTOTLE"S Axiom on Taste, ii. 371, 374.
ARMADA, Spanish, i. 149.
ARMI, Lodovico dall", a _bravo_ of n.o.ble family, i. 409; accredited at Venice as Henry VIII."s "Colonel," 410; his career of secret diplomacy, 411; negotiations between Lord Wriothesley and Venice regarding the ban issued against him, 412; his downfall, 413; personal appearance, 414; execution, 415.
ARNOLFINI, Ma.s.similiano, paramour of Lucrezia Buonvisi, i. 331; procures the a.s.sa.s.sination of her husband, 332; flight from justice, 332; outlawed, 336; his wanderings and wretched end, 339.
ART of Memory, Bruno"s, ii. 139.
ART of Poetry, Ta.s.so"s Dialogues on the, ii. 22, 24; influence of its theory on Ta.s.so"s own work, 25.
a.s.sISTANTS, the (Jesuit functionaries), i. 273.
ASTORGA, Marquis of, i. 22.
AURORA, the Ludovisi fresco of, ii. 368.
AVILA, Don Luigi d", i. 128.
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BAGLIONI, Malatesta, i. 46.
BAINI"S _Life of Palestrina_, ii. 316 _sqq._
BALBI, Cesare, on Italian decadence, ii. 3.
BANDITTI, tales ill.u.s.trative of, i. 388 _sqq._
"BANDO" (of outlawry), recitation of the terms of a, i. 328.
BARBIERI, Giovanni Francesco, _see_ IL GUERCINO.
BARCELONA, the Treaty of, i. 15.