MODENA and Bologna, humors of the conflict between, ii. 304.
MONOPOLIES, system of, in Italy, i. 49.
MONTALTO, Cardinal, nephew of Sixtus V., i. 157.
MONTEBELLO, Baron, the tale of, i. 428.
MONTECATINO, Antonio, an enemy of Ta.s.so at Ferrara, ii. 48, 50, 60, 62; his downfall, 66.
MONTE OLIVETO, the monastery of, Ta.s.so at, ii, 74.
MONZA, the Lady of, _see_ LEYVA, VIRGINIA MARIA DE.
MORALS, social and domestic, in Italy, effect of the Catholic Revival on, i. 301 _sqq._; outcome of the Tridentine decrees, 302; hypocrisy and ceremonial observances, 303; sufferings of the lower cla.s.ses, _ib._; increase of crimes of violence, 304; mistrust between the aristocracy and the _bourgeoisie_, 306; survival of mediaeval habits, _ib._; brigandage, 307; criminal procedure, 308; mutual jealousy of States afforded security to refugee homicides, 309; toleration of outlaws, 310; the Lucchese army of bandits, 311; honorable murder, 312; maintenance of _bravi_, _ib._; social violence countenanced by the Church, 314; s.e.xual morality, 315; state of convents, 316; profligate fanaticism, _ib._; convent intrigues, 318 _sqq._
MORATO, Peregrino, letter from Celio Calcagnini to, i. 74.
MORNAY, Duplessis, Sarpi"s letters to, ii. 229.
MORONE, Cardinal, i. 26; Papal legate at Trent, 97 _n._; imprisoned by Paul IV., 110; relations with Pius IV., _ib._; liberal thinkers among his a.s.sociates, 111 _n._; his work in connection with the Council of Trent, 127.
---Girolamo, i. 26, 72.
MUNIc.i.p.aL wars, Italian, ii. 304.
MURDERS in Italy in the sixteenth century, i. 305 _sqq._
MURETUS: his difficulties as a professor in Rome, i. 214, 216.
MURTOLA, Gasparo, attempted a.s.sa.s.sination of the poet Marino by, ii. 263.
MUSIC, Italian, decadence of, in the sixteenth century, ii. 315; foreign musicians in Rome, 316; the contrapuntal style, 317; licenses allowed to performers, _ib._; the medleys prepared by composers, _ib._; disgraceful condition of Church music, 318; orchestral _ricercari_, 320 _n._; Savonarola"s opinion of the Church music of his time, _ib._; musical apt.i.tude of the people, 322; lack of a controlling element of correct taste, _ib._; advent of Palestrina, _ib._; the Congregation for the Reform of Music, 325; rise of the Oratorio, 334; music in England in the sixteenth century, 338; rise of the Opera, 340.
MUSICIANS, Italian, of the seventeenth cenutry, ii. 243.
N
NAPLES, kingdom of, separated from Sicily, i. 4; its extent, _ib._; in the hands of Spain, 12.
Na.s.sAU, Count of, i. 38.
NATURE, the study of, among Italian philosophers, ii. 128.
NEPOTISM, Papal: the Caraffas, i. 104 _sq._; the Borromeos, 115; the Ghislieri, 147; Gregory XIII."s relatives, 151; estimate of the incomes of Papal nephews, 156 _sqq._
NEW Christians, the, in Spain, _see_ JEWS.
n.o.bILI, Flaminio de", a censor of the _Gerusalemme Liberata_, ii. 43.
NOLA, survival of Greek customs in, ii. 132.
NOVICES, Jesuit, position of, i. 271.
NUNNERIES, state of, in the sixteenth century, i. 315 _sqq._
O
OMERO, Fuggiguerra, sobriquet chosen by Ta.s.so in his wanderings, ii. 64.
OPERA, rise of the, in Florence, ii. 341.
ORANGE, Prince of, leader of the Spanish army in the siege of Florence, i. 18.
ORATORIO (Musical), the: its origins in Rome, ii. 334.
ORATORY of Divine Love, the, i. 76.
ORSINI, the, reduced to submission to the Popes, i. 7.
---Paolo Giordano (Duke of Bracciano): his pa.s.sion for Vittoria Accoramboni, i. 358; his gigantic stature and corpulence, 359; poisons his first wife, 360; treatment by Sixtus V., 363; secret marriage with Vittoria, 364; renounces the marriage, 365; ratifies the union by public marriage, 366; flight from Rome, _ib._: death of the Duke, 367.
---Prince Lodovico: procures the murder of Vittoria Accoramboni and her brother, i. 368; siege of his palace, 370; his violent death, 371.
---Troilo, lover of the d.u.c.h.ess of Bracciano, i. 360; details of his murder by Ambrogio Tremazzi, 405 _sqq._
OSIO, Gianpaolo: his intrigue with Virginia de Leyva, i. 318 _sqq._; murders her waiting-woman, 322; attempts to murder two other nuns, 324; his letter of defence to Cardinal Federigo Borromeo, 326; condemned to death and outlawed, 327; terms of the _Bando_, 328; his end, 329.
OSORIO, Don Alvaro, Grand Marshal of Spain, i. 22.
OUTLAWRY in Italy in the sixteenth century, i. 307 _sqq._
OXFORD, Giordano Bruno"s reception at, ii. 144.
P
PACHECO, Cardinal, the foe of the Caraffeschi, i. 105.
PADUAN school of scepictism, the, influence of, on Ta.s.so, ii. 20.
PAGANELLO, Conte, a.s.sa.s.sin of Vittoria Accoramboni, i. 371.
PAINTING in the late years of the sixteenth century, ii. 344; Eclecticism, 345; influence of the Tridentine Council, 347; the Mannerists, 348; Baroccio, 349; the Caracci, 350 _sqq._; studies of the Bolognese painters, 352; academical ideality, 354; Guido, Albani, Domenichino, 355 _sqq._; criticism of Domenichino"s work, 359; the Italian Realists, 363 _sqq._; Lo Spada, 364; Il Guercino, 365; critical reaction against the Eclectics, 368; fundamental principles of criticism, 370 _sqq._
PAIX des Dames, i. 9, 16.