INDEX.
A.
Ages of Faith,85
Alexander VI., election of, 214
receives Catherine as a prisoner courteously, 256
accuses her of conspiring to poison him, 257
his death, 262
Alphonso of Naples abdicates, 273
Ammirato, the historian, his mention of Catherine, 27
his account of Sforza's visit to Florence, 99
Antonio, the painter, anecdote of, 159
Apennines, travelling in, in the fifteenth century, 98
Auditor of Forlì, his doubts, 224
Avignon, restoration of the papacy from, 25
B.
Balatrone, C., servant of the Riarii, 257
Bargello of Imola, 232
his bargain with Catherine, ib.
Barlow, Dr. H. C., his letter on Fontebranda, 398
Bassi Antonio, scene at his death–bed, 129
Beatification, 9
Benincasa Giacomo, 6
Bentivoglio, Lord of Bologna, threatens the Forlivesi, 192
Bigazzi, Signor Pietro, 398–407
Biographer's duty, 269
Bona, Duchess of Milan, 92
Bona Sforza, Duchess, her trousseau, 317
Bonaventura, Catherine of Siena's sister, miraculously punished, 36
Borghese family refuse to admit the relationship to them of St. Catherine, 88
Burlamacchi, father F., 18
C.
Calza, Compagnia della, at Venice, 113
Candles, blessed by the Pope, as a safeguard in travelling, 134
Cardona, Don Raymond di, reviews his army, 307
Carnesecchi, the martyr, 361
Carpi, Tommaso, Pope Alexander's chamberlain, 258
"Carte de tendre," in the sixteenth century, 340
Castellano, duties of, 208
Cataleptic nature of Catherine's ecstasies, 23
Catherine of Siena, her story puzzling, specially so from the recentness of its date, 2;
her home described, 7;
her bedchamber, 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 biography, 32
at five years old, 33
her early austerities, 34
her confessions, ib.
her fasting, 37
her communications with our Saviour, 38
earns 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 value to the Dominicans, 82
her influence still operative, 83
her strength of character, 85
her ambition, 86
Cervino, Cardinal, Vittoria Colonna's letter to, 389
Cesare Borgia, 241
appears before Imola, 247
makes triumphal entry into Forlì, 250
parleys with Catherine, 251
visits Catherine his prisoner, 254
Cesena, troops brought from, against Forlì, 192
Charles VIII. of France invades Italy, 217
abandons Naples, 274
death, 276
Charles V. visits Vittoria Colonna, 351
short–sighted in the matter of the Interim,136
anecdote of his reception by the Fuggers, 143
in winter quarters at Innspruck, 169
escapes to Villach, 170
Chattel property, importance of, in fifteenth century, 140
Christ appears to St. Catherine as a beggarman, 41
Clan, solidarity in medieval Italy, 227
Clare St., convent fire at, 297
Cobelli Leon, the chronicler, 144
Codronchi Innocenzio; the seneschal seizes the fort Ravaldino, 177
his strange conduct, 178
Colonna, protonotary, persecution of, 161
his tortures and death, 162
Colonna, Cardinal, plundered, 161
Colonna family, power, and wealth of, 279
persecuted by Alexander VI., 285
grants of land to them, 292
at war with Pope Clement, 330
Fabrizio, his political conduct, 290
his death, 319
Colonna Vittoria; her parents, 277
eldest child, and not youngest, as the biographers say, 278
betrothed to Pescara, 283
educated by Duchessa di Francavilla, ib.
her beauty, 288
presents received from, and made to her husband, 299
her marriage, 300
her honeymoon in Ischia, 301
her epistle to her husband, 304
continues childless, 306
educates the Marchese del Vasto, ib.
her life in Ischia, 312
sees her husband for the last time, 319
Varchi's 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 sentiments towards her husband's memory, 339
her purity of character, 340
in Rome in 1530, 346
her rambles in Rome, ib.
her intimacies, 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, ib.
submissive to the church, 361
her devotional sonnets, 369, et seq.
no moral sentiments in her poetry, 372
absence of all patriotic feeling 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, 382
question of her orthodoxy, 383
conversation with Michael Angelo, 387
at Viterbo, 388
her letter to Cervino, 389
returns for the last time to Rome, 390
Fracastoro consulted on her health, ib.
sorrows in her last days, 391
her death, ib.
Colours, favourite, in fifteenth century, 406
Confessional, Vittoria Colonna on, 365
Contarini, his mission, and hopes of reconciliation, 354
dedicates his work on Free Will to Vittoria Colonna, 378
Contile, Luca, his visit to Vittoria Colonna, 382
Convent–building, investment in, 172
Conversation in the fifteenth century, 384
Conversions operated by St. Catherine, 43
Corio, his history of Milan, 400
Corsi, Rinaldo, his commentary on Vittoria Colonna's poetry, 348
Costume, female, in fifteenth century, 401
Costume at Venice in the end of fifteenth century, 113
Crucifixion, sonnet on, by Vittoria Colonna, 374
Cuppani, L., copyist of Catherine's book of secrets, 264
Cynicism of Catherine, 267
Cynicism, singular instance of, 401
Cyprian dresses, 124
D.
Della Crusca, Academy of, approves of St. Catherine's style, 64
Despotism in Italy, its results, 239
Divine doctrine, book of, by St. Catherine, 51
specimen of, 53
Dominican Order, St. Catherine devoted to, 80
Dominican monks, Catherine of Siena's special reverence for, 34
E.
Ecstasies of St. Catherine, 21
Ercolani Ludovico, Riano's butler, his faithful services after his master's murder, 182, et seq.
Ercole d'Este welcomes Vitt. Colonna to Ferrara, 352
Ernest of Saxony arrives in Rome, 131
honours shown him, 132
Executions in Forlì, 201
F.
Faith, justification by, doctrine of, why obnoxious to the Catholic Church, 359
Falsehood, St. Catherine guilty of, 79
Famine at Rome, A.D.1482, 155
Felony in ermine, 147
Feo, Tommaso, made Castellano of Ravaldino, 179
his speech to the insurgents, 190
turned out of his place, 209
Feo, Giacomo, 207 his marriage
with Catherine, 210
made Castellano, ib.
honours heaped on him, 211
made Baron by the French King, 220
his assassination, 221
Ferdinand of Naples, death, 273
Ferdinand II. of Naples, 274
his death, 293
Ferdinand of Spain, 275
his entry into Naples,295
Ferrara, Court of, 351
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 to, 94
curious alteration in the level of the soil, 97
Finance difficulties of Catherine, 213
Fleet, Roman, blessing of the, 139
Florence employs Catherine as a negotiator, 26
Galeazzo Sforza'sjourney to, 97
at war with Pisa, 240
Fontebranda fountain,5
Forlì, city of, 127
gala on the arrival of the new sovereigns, 143
situated between two armies, 217
importance of the belligerents, 219
Forlivesi, maltreated by Borgia's soldiers, 251
Fortresses in Italian mediæval cities, their importance, 196
Fracastoro, his letter on Vittoria Colonna's health, 390
Francavilla, Duchessa di, 283
Franciscans claim monopoly of the miracle of the stigmata, 48
Frederick of Aragon in Ischia, 294
Funeral of Giacomo Feo, 229
Furniture, household, value of, in fifteenth century, 406
G.
Gambara, Veronica, her estimate of Vittoria Colonna, 377
Gianantonio di Parma, anecdote of, 157
Giberto, Cardinal, invites Vitt. Colonna to Verona, 353
his letter to Cardinal Bembo, ib.
Giovanna d'Aragona, 346
Giovanni de' Medici, 235
his death, 237
Guicciardini, on the state of Italy in 1494, 90
his estimate of good times in Italy, 216
H.
Harford, Mr., his account of Vitt. Colonna's letter to Michael Angelo, 379
Haters, the Italians great, 238
Heart, Catherine of Siena's change of, 39
Hunting party near Rome, 133
I.
Imola, city of, 95
Influence, the secret, of St. Catherine, 83
Infessura Stefano, his chronicle, 399
Innocent VIII., will have nothing to do with the Forlì insurgents, 195
simoniacal election of, 170
Ischia, Isle of, early home of Vitt. Colonna, 286
Vitt. Colonna's life in, 312
knot of poets there, ib.
J.
Jesting, between our Saviour and St. Catherine, 40
Jew invited to settle in Forlì, 214
Journey, day for, indicated by the planets, 139
in the fifteenth century, 140
Jubilee at Forlì, 215
proceeds of, 216
Jubilee year, 1500, 293
Jurisprudence, mediæval, specimen of, 259
K.
Knighthood inimical to patriotism, 291
L.
Lampugnani, G. A., assassin of the Duke, 117
Landriano, John Peter, 91
Lapa, St. Catherine's mother, her death, 45
Leon Cobelli, his fault and imprisonment, 207
his lamentations over the body of G. Feo, 223
Letters of St. Catherine, 55
no originals of them extant, 56
written during trance, 62
high reputation of these letters, 63
to Charles V. of France, 67
subject of that letter, 75
Literature, safe, for the millions, 17
Litta, his opinion of Catherine, 225
Litters for crossing the Apennines, 97
Lord of misrule in Forlì, 252
Lorenzo de' Medici, his reply to the insurgent Forlivesi, 193
Louis XII. of France, his proposal to Ferdinand of Spain, 276
Love–poetry of the sixteenth century, 344
Love, woman's, should not survive esteem, 342
Lucca, Protestant tendencies of, 352
Ludovico il Moro, 272
Luxury, increase of, 229
M.
Macchiavelli in Forlì, 244
Magnani, Bishop, his rule at Forlì, 154
Maimbourg's testimony to Catherine's influence in restoring the papacy to Rome, 29
Malatesta, Robert, death of, 155
suspicions respecting it, 156
Manfredi, Tadeo, lord of Imola, 95
Guidazzo, his son,96
Mansion family, an Italian noble's feeling about, 202
Mantellate of St. Domenico, 19
Mantua, Marchioness of, visits the Spanish army, 308
Manual for confessors, 49
Marino, description of, 280
Medals of Vitt. Colonna, 328
the last struck in her lifetime, 381
Michael Angelo, his friendship with Vitt. Colonna, 378
his disposition and temperament, ib.
influenced by Vitt. Colonna, 379
in the church of San Silvestro, 386
with Vitt. Colonna in her last moments, 391
present fate of papers and memorials left by, 409
Milan, wealth of, 90
Ministry to the sick, St. Catherine's, 49
Miracles recorded of St. Catherine, specimens only can be given, 33
miraculous conversions wrought by her, 45
of the stigmata, 47
many may be explained, 79
Molza, the poet, 346
Montano Cola and his pupils, 99
Morality of some of St. Catherine's actions, 49
low, in Vitt. Colonna's poetry, 373
Morone, minister of the Duke of Milan, 321
entrapped by Pescara, 324
Murate convent, 263
Muratori's testimony to her influence in restoring the papacy to Rome, 29
Mussis de Johannes, his curious chronicle of ancient Placentian manners, 401
N.
Naldi, Dionigi; Castellano at Imola, 247
Naples, cause of quarrel with Milan, 273
rapid changes of government, 275
finally falls under power of Spain, 277
New year's eve festival, 252
Nitre, bought for Florence in Pesaro, 246
O.
Ochino, Bernardino, 316
Olanda di Francesco, his record of conversations with Vitt. Colonna, 383, et seq.
Olgiato, G., assassin of the Duke, 117
his execution, 118
Oratory of divine love, 356
Ordelaffi, family of the, 127
conspiracies in favour of, 151
favoured by the Forlivesi, 152
Orsi, Ludovico, accomplice in Riario's murder, 183
Orsi, the father of the above, his experience of revolutions, 191
his palace razed, 201
he is put to death, 202
Orsi, Checco, his quarrel with Riario, 180
he murders Riario, 181
his reply to the Duke of Milan, 195
determines to murder Catherine's children, 198
fails, and quits Forlì, ib.
Orthodoxy of Vitt. Colonna, 375
Ottaviano Riario, general in the service of Florence, 244
Oudin, Father Casimir, his doubts as to St. Catherine's authorship, 52
P.
Pace, Pietro de, his adventure, 296
Pansecco, L., assassin of Riario, 182
Papal infallibility, doctrine of, dear to Italian minds, 367
Papire Masson, his high estimate of St. Catherine's letters, 65
Paradise, Catherine Sforza's, 231
difficulty of paying for it, ib.
Pasquinades on Cardinal Riario, 400
Passeri, the weaver, Neapolitan diarist, 408
Patriotism has no place in Vitt. Colonna's poetry, 376
Paul II., Pope, 102
Paul III. Pope, 349
creates several good cardinals, 350
makes war on the Colonnas, 381
his conduct respecting his son, ii. 42
his character, 79
waits in vain near Canossa for Charles V., 93
visits Ferrara, 94
his death, 114
Pazzi conspiracy, 135
Pescara, Ferdinand, Marquis of, 287
joins the army, 301
made prisoner, 303
complimented by Isabella of Aragon, ib.
his Dialogo d'amore, 304
his character, 309
anecdote of his cruelty, 310
last interview with his wife, 319
his cruelty, 320
his treachery and infamy, 321
his Spanish predilections, 325
rewarded for his infamy, 327
his death, ib.
Petrarchism in the sixteenth century, 343
Phœnix burning in Italy, 271
Piccolomini, Don Alfonso, his marriage, 315
Pio Nono, anecdote of, 89
Platonism of the sixteenth century, 339
Poland, King of, marriage festivities of, in Naples, 313
Pole, Cardinal, his influence on Vitt. Colonna, 388
Political intrigues in Italy, 1481, 146
Politics, Italian, in the fifteenth century, 93
Popes, good and bad, succeed in sets, 103
Pozzuoli, caverns of, 296
Prayers by St. Catherine, 54
Protestant tendencies of Vitt. Colonna, 352
Pyramus and Thisbe medal, 348
R.
Ravaldino, fortress of, at Forlì, 172
Ravenna, rout of, 303
Raymond of Capua, 9
becomes General of the Dominicans, 10
his Life of St. Catherine, 11
specimens of that work, 14
his proof of Catherine's miraculous powers, 22
his assertion of a miracle, 31
bequeathes two volumes of Catherine's letters, 57
his insincerity, 81
Reading, learned by Catherine of Siena, by miracle, 38
Reformers in Italy, 357
Renaissance, women of the, vi
little available as models for imitation, vii
wars of the, in Italy, ignoble in their nature, 291
Revolution, striking proneness to, in mediæval Italian cities, 226
Riario, Girolamo, 106
made citizen of Rome, 127
invested with lordship of Forlì, ib.
made general of the Roman forces, 128
contriver of the Pazzi conspiracy, 136
his wealth, 141
his reasons for quitting Rome, 142
remits tax on corn, 144
his extensive architectural undertakings, 145, 172
his visit to Venice, 146
is dissatisfied with the results of it, 150
returns to Imola, 150
returns to Rome, 152
marches against the Neapolitans, 153
his savage conduct to the Protonotary Colonna, 161
in difficulty after the Pope's death, 167
returns to Forlì, 169
confirmed in his possessions and offices by Innocent VIII., 170
his difficult position, 171
finds himself a poor man, 172
has a hard life, 174
his dangerous illness, 176
his death, 181
Riario, Peter, Cardinal, his preferments, 105
his pomp, 107
his rivalry with Galeazzo Sforza, 107
his visit to Milan, 108
his visit to Venice, 112
his death, 114
his epitaph, 115
Riario family is founded, 166
present family, ancestor of, 173
Rohan, Cardinal de, anecdote of his death and burial, 156
Roman history, dangerous reading, 99, 117
Rome, life in, A.D. 1480–90, 128, 130
hunting party near, 133
life in, A.D. 1482, 155
riots in, 160
anarchy in, at the death of Pope Sixtus, 168
Rome's feudal dues, 241
Ronchi, G., assassin of Riario, 182
threatens Catherine, 187
Rose, Golden, to what English sovereigns sent, 405
Rosmini, his history of Milan, 400
S.
Sadoleto obtains a bull to prevent Vitt. Colonna from taking the veil, 329
St. Angelo, castle of, anecdote of an escape from, 157
Salt–tax occasions war between the Colonna and Paul III., 381
Salviati, Archbishop, hung at Florence, 135
Santi, Gismondo, murder of, 322
Santo Spirito, church of, burned down, 101
Savelli, Cardinal, invited to Forlì by the insurgents, 185
his interview with Catherine, 186
is duped by Catherine, 190
his reply to the Lord of Bologna, 192
finds himself in difficulty, 194
forges a bull, ib.
Schismatic Pope, important consequences of, 75
Secrets, Catherine's volume of wonderful, 264
Sforza, Galeazzo Maria, 91
his journey to Florence, 97
his pleasures, 109
his death, 117
his character, 119
Sforza, Catherine, born 91
legitimation of her, 95
projects of marriage, 95
accompanies her father to Florence, 97
negotiations for her marriage with Girolamo Sforza, 111
her marriage in danger, 116
her marriage, 121
her entry into Rome, 123
her personal appearance, ib.
her residence in Rome, 125
her influence with Sixtus IV., 126
whether guilty of the Pazzi conspiracy, 137
her three elder children, 138
her entry into Forlì, 142
her questionable happiness, 154
her energetic conduct after the Pope's death, 167
her younger children, 173
a helpful wife to her husband, 175
her character, 176
visits Milan, ib.
nurses her husband in his illness, 177
her night–ride to Forlì, 178
recovers possession of Ravaldino, 179
birth of her sixth child, 180
her first steps on learning the murder of her husband, 185
is imprisoned by the Orsi, 186
is threatened by the insurgents, 187
succeeds in obtaining permission to enter the castle, 189
her clemency, 199
her graciousness in the hour of triumph, 200
her virile energy, 204
marriage projected for her, 205
her anger thereat, 206
lures the Castellano out of Ravaldino, 209
orders a man to the rack for speaking of her marriage with Feo, 210
conduct to her children, 211
decides on allying herself with Naples, 219
breaks that alliance, ib.
conduct after the murder of Feo, 224
doubts as to her innocence of Feo's murder, 225
what she thanked God for, 226
her vengeance, 227
builds a new palace and gardens, 230
how she finds the money to pay for them, 232
her third marriage, 234
her posterity by this marriage, 236
her trade in soldiers, 240
deposed by Alexander VI., 241
her recruiting, 242
negotiations with Macchiavelli, 245
her conference with her subjects, 248
batters Forlì, 249
is taken prisoner, 253
taken to Rome, 255
accused of conspiracy to poison the Pope, 257
confined in St. Angelo, 260
released by interference of French king, 262
goes to Florence, ib.
retires to the Murate, ib.
her volume of wonderful secrets, 264
her moral and intellectual condition, 268
her death, 270
apocryphal story of, 407
Siena, description of, 3
Silvestro San, in Capite, Vitt. Colonna retires thither, 329
church of, party in, 385
Sixtus IV., Pope, 102
his lineage, 103
his character, 104
whether guilty of the Pazzi conspiracy, 136
his designs on Ferrara, 153
his fraudulent granaries, 155
his violence to the court of the Rota, 158
condemns a painter to death, 159
implacability towards the Colonna, 161
his despair at the conclusion of peace, 164
and death, 165
Sleep, St. Catherine's abstinence from, 78
Soldiers, trade in, by little princes of Italy, 240
Sonnets, theological, of Vitt. Colonna, 362, et seq.
character of, 332
specimen of Vitt. Colonna's, 333, et seq.
Stella, Catherine's sister, her marriage, 193
Stigmata, miracle of the, 47
T.
Tapestry belonging to Ferdinand I., 297
Tasso, Bernardo, his sonnet on the society in Ischia, 313
Taxation, unequal, 231
applied to give alms to ruined taxpayers, 233
Tiraboschi, his opinion of Vittoria's orthodoxy, 361
Tolentino, Francesco, governor of Forlì, 151
Toll–bars, Catherine's, 212
failure of them, 213
Torelli, Onorato,95
Trissino, Giangiorgio, letter to him from Vitt. Colonna, 353
Tyrants, occasional impotence of, 158
U.
Ughelli, Abate, his testimony to Catherine's influence, 29
V.
Valdez, Juan, reformer, 357
Varchi, Bened., his character of Vitt. Colonna, 323
Vasto, Marchese del, educated by Vitt. Colonna, 306
death of, 391
Venice, festivities at, 148
Verri, his history of Milan, 400
his sentiments on the assassination of Duke Sforza, 119
Vigne, delle, Pietro, 10
Virgin, sonnet to, by Vitt. Colonna, 375
Virgin della Bruna, carried from Naples to Rome, 294
Visconti, extinction of, in Milan, 91
Visconti, C., assassin of the Duke, 117
Visconti, Pietro, recent editor of Vitt. Colonna's works, 278
W.
Woman, her social position a test of civilisation, v
woman's love should not outlive esteem, 342
Works, good; what sort the church requires, 360
Writing, art of, miraculously acquired by St. Catherine, 58
Z.
Zocchejo, Melchior, Castellano of Ravaldino, his character, 177
his death, ib.
END OF VOLUME I.
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