N.
Naharro, Bartolomé Torres, one of
the earliest Spanish dramatists,
III. 97. Mentioned by the editor
of Cervantes' comedies, as the
real inventor of the Spanish
drama, 98. His reforms in the
Spanish theatricals, 99.
Navagero, Andrea, III. 39.
Nasi, Alessandro, I. 287.
Negrete, doctor Juan de, III. 226.
Neri, I. 18.
Noronha, dom Alfonso de, III. 309.
Nozzolini, Ptolemy, II. 28.
O.
Obizzo III., marquis of Este, I. 196.
Oliva, Perez de, one of the earliest
Spanish dramatists, III. 96.
Orsino, Paolo, I. 246.
P.
Pacheco, Francisco, the celebrated
painter, III. 148.
Pachione, Philippo. I. 227.
Pajares, Alonso Diaz, III. 122.
Panizzi, Dr., I. 168.
Pastrengo, William da, I. 84.
Paul II., pope, I. 180.
Pedrosa, Luis, III. 138.
Pellicer, don Juan Antonio, III. 121.
Pellicer, don Joseph, III. 202.
Pepoli, Geronimo, II. 71.
Perticari, count, II. 336.
Perugini, Paolo, I. 120.
Petracco, Pietro, I. 23.
Petrarch, Francesco, his birth and
parentage, I. 61.
His early life,
62.
Sent to study at the university
of Montpellier, 63.
Sent to
Bologna; makes considerable
progress in the study of the law,
64.
Recalled to France by the
death of his father, 64.
Abandons
the law, and devotes himself to
the clerical profession, 65.
His
sedulous attention to dress, 65.
Becomes the favourite and companion
of the ecclesiastical and
lay nobles who form the papal
court, 65.
Commencement of his
friendship with Giacomo Colonna,
66.
His description of
Colonna, 67.
His character, 67.
His first meeting with Laura de
Side, 68.
Endeavours to merge
the living passion of his soul into
the airy and unsubstantial devotion
of Platonic attachment, 70.
His poetic life dated from the
time of his attachment to Laura,
71.
His predilection for travelling,
72.
Becomes an inmate in
the house of cardinal Colonna;
his unbounded ardour for acquiring
knowledge, 73.
Visits
Paris; continues his travels
through Aix-la-Chapelle and Cologne,
74.
Visits Rome; his sensations
on entering the eternal
city, 75.
Leaves Italy, and travels
through Spain to Cadiz, and
northward as far as the sea-coast
of England, 76.
Makes an excursion
to Mont Ventoux, one of
the highest mountains in Europe,
76.
His letter to father Dionisio
Robertis, giving an account of
the expedition, 77.
Retires to
Vaucluse, 78.
His manner of life,
79.
Extract from a translation of
one of the canzoni, as a specimen
of his style, 80.
Character of his
mistress, 82.
His intimacy with
Philip de Cabassoles, bishop of
Cavaillon, 83.
His letter to Giacomo
Colonna, on his soliciting
him to go to Rome, 84.
Receives
letters from the Roman senate
and the university of Paris, inviting
him to receive the laurel
crown of poetry; he decides in
favour of Rome, 85.
Repairs to
Rome, and is crowned in the
capitol with great solemnity, in
presence of all the nobles and
high-born ladies of the city, 86.
Returns to Avignon; takes on
himself the office of barrister, and
pleads the cause of the Corregio,
against their enemies the Rossi,
before the pope, and succeeds in
obtaining a decision in their favour,
87.
His grief on hearing
of the death of Thomas of Messina:
his extraordinary dream,
88.
Named prior of Migliarino,
in the diocese of Pisa, 89.
His
unabated love for Laura, 90.
Applies
himself to Greek, under
Bernardo Barlaam, 91.
Writes
his work entitled "The Secret of
Francesco Petrarca," 91.
Sent as
ambassador to Naples, to establish
the papal claim, 92.
Writes letters
full of encouragement to
Rienzi, the tribune, 93.
Repairs
to his house at Parma; his extraordinary
dream, 94.
His grief
on hearing of the death of Laura,
95. His record of her death, 95.
Gives large sums in charity for
the sake of her soul, and causes
many masses to be said for the
same purpose, 97.
Receives a
decree of the Florentine republic,
reinstating him in his paternal
inheritance, together with letters
inviting him to accept of a professor's
chair in their university,
99.
His letters to pope Clement
VI.; again solicited to accept the
lace of apostolic secretary, which
e again refuses, 100.
His treatise
"On Solitary Life," 101.
Induced by the solicitations of
Giovanni Visconti to remain in
Milan, 102.
His conversation
with the emperor Charles V., 102.
Sent to Vienna to negotiate a
peace, and afterwards sent to
Paris to congratulate John, 103.
His manner of life at Milan, 104.
His record of the death of his
son; takes up his abode at
Padua, 105.
His writings compared
with those of Dante, 106.
His description of Laura's death,
107.
Continues to interest himself
deeply in the political state of
his country, 109.
His letter to
Boccaccio; his congratulatory
letter to Pope Urban V., 110. Is
seized with a violent illness on
his way to Rome, 111.
His treatise,
entitled "On my own Ignorance
and that of others," 112.
His opinion of the "Decameron"
of Boccaccio, 113.
His death,
114.
His will, 114.
Peraga, Bonaventura da, I. 114.
Petroni, Pietro, I. 139.
Pickler, Giovanni, II. 314.
Pietro, Francesco Santo, III. 127.
Pignoria, Lorenzo, II. 13.
Pineda, don Juan de, III. 108.
Pio, prince of Savoy, II. 193.
Pistofo, M. Bonaventura, I. 230.
Pistoia, Cina da, I. 64.
Pletho, Gemisthus, I. 151.
Polenta, Guido Novelio da, lord of
Ravenna, I. 29.
Politian, II. 15.
Poliziano, Angelo, his birth and
parentage, I. 162.
Review of his
writings, 163.
Appointed tutor
to the children of Lorenzo de'
Medici, 164.
At the age of
twenty-nine appointed to the professorship
of Greek and Latin
eloquence in the university of
Florence, 165.
His death, 167.
Porras, doctor Mathias, corregidor
of the province of Canta, in Peru,
III. 213.
Porta, Baptista, II. 14.
Portugal, early poets of, III. 288.
Pulci, Bernardo, remarks on his
works, I. 167.
Pulci, Luca, his works, I. 167.
Pulci, Luigi, style of his writings,
I. 168.
Extract from his "Morgante
Maggiore," 171.
Outline of
the poem, 173.
Q.
Quarqualio, Luca, I. 159.
Querenghi, his letter to cardinal
D'Este, giving an account of
Galileo's controversial discussions
at Rome, III. 34.
Quevedo, don Francisco Gomez de,
his birth, parentage, and early
education, III. 246. His career
checked by a circumstance which
may be considered as fortunate,
257. Obliged to fly; takes refuge
in Italy, and thence, invited by
the viceroy, repairs to Naples, 258.
Sent by him as his ambassador to
Madrid, to recount his exploits,
and explain his designs, 259. Accused
of joining in the Bedmar
conspiracy against Venice, 261.
Continues to escape the vigilance
of the senate, and makes his escape
in the guise of a mendicant,
262. His political services,
264.
His literary productions; his imprisonment
and liberation, 265.
Several places offered to him, all
of which he declines, and gives
himself up to study and philosophy,
266. Gives up his church
preferments, for the sake of marrying,
266. His playful yet bitter
poem, alluding to his evil fate,
267. Suspected of writing libels
against the court, arrested, and
imprisoned in a dungeon of the
Royal Casa de San Marcos de
Leon, 268. His letter, describing
the squalid wretchedness of his
dungeon, 269. His memorial to
the count duke Olivarez, 270.
His death, 272. His person and
character, 272. Critique on his
writings, 273.
R.
Real, Lorenzo, II. 56.
Renieri, the friend and pupil of
Galileo, II. 57.
Ribeyro, Bernardim, one of the
earliest of the Portuguese poets,
III. 290.
Riccardi, Nicolo, II. 41.
Ricci, Giuliano, I. 312.
Ricci, Ostillo, II. 3.
Riego, the canon, II. 391.
Rienzi, Nicola di, I. 92.
Rioja, Francisco de, III. 223.
Rios, don Vicente de los, III. 121.
Robert, king of Naples, I. 86.
Robertis, Father Dionisio, I. 77.
Robertson, Dr., II. 22.
Rollo, Paolo, I. 238.
Romena, count Alessandro da, I. 23.
Roxas, Fernando de, III. 95. Author
of the first genuine Spanish play,
96.
Rucellai, Cosimo, I. 304.
Rueda, Lope de, celebrated as an
actor and pastoral poet, III. 98.
Ruiz, Juan, arch-priest of Hita;
brief review of his works, III.12.
S.
Salvani, Provenzano, I. 24.
Salvanorola, I. 130.
Salvatico, conte Guido, I. 28.
Salvi, Giulio, III, 60.
Santillani, the marquess of, remarks
on his poems, III. 13.
Scala, Can' Grande de la, I. 27.
Scala, Alessandro, II. 75.
Scheiner, professor of mathematics
at Ingoldstadt, II. 25.
Schlegel, III. 234.
Scotus, Duns, I. 9.
Serram, Antonio, III. 324.
Serrano, señor Bachiller, III. 122.
Serraville, Giovanni da, bishop of
Fermo, I. 8.
Settimo, Guido, I. 63.
Sforza, Caterina, I. 262.
Sforza, Ippolita, II. 75.
Signa, Martino da, I. 149.
Sixtus IV., pope, I. 160.
Soderini Pietro, I. 288.
Sotomayor, don Alonzo Lopez de
Zuniga y, III. 157.
Spain, early and anonymous poetry
of, III. 1.
Spini Christofano, II. 180.
Stolberg, Louisa de, countess of
Albany, II. 280.
Her attachment
to Alfieri, 285.
Strada, Giovanni da, I. 117.
Strozzi, Oberto, I. 188.
Sylveira, Hector da, III. 321.
T.
Talleirand, cardinal, I. 100.
Tasso, Bernardo, his birth and
parentage, II. 98.
His early life
and ill-directed love, 99.
At the
age of forty-one, appointed secretary
to Ferrante Sanseverino,
prince of Salerno, 99.
His marriage,
100.
Commences his poem,
entitled "Amadigi," 100.
His letter
to his sister Afra, 101.
Summoned
away from the delightful
retirement of Sorrento to join his
patron in the war which had
broken out between the emperor
Charles V. and Francis I., 102.
Returns from the army, and enjoys
a brief prolongation of his
domestic quiet, 103.
Declared a
rebel, and his estate confiscated,
along with the adherents of the
duke of Salerno, 104.
His letter
to his daughter, 108.
Flies from
Rome to Ravenna; invited by
the duke of Urbino to Pesara,
where he affords a welcome but
temporary asylum from the persecution
of his enemies, and the
pressure of indigence, 111.
Repairs
to Venice to publish his
work entitled "Amadigi," 113.
Failure of the poem, 119.
Places
his son at Padua to study jurisprudence,
122.
His interview
with his son at Mantua, 130.
His death, in the seventy-sixth
year of his age, 131.
Tasso, Torquato, review of his life,
II. 96.
His birth, 101.
Nursery
traditions of, 103.
His progress
in the rudiments of knowledge,
under the superintendence of his
mother, 104.
His beautiful and
touching lines on his separation
from her, when called away from
Naples to join his mother at
Rome, 105.
Compared with
Cowper, 106.
His religious sentiments,
107.
Prosecutes his
studies with indefatigable assiduity
at Rome, 108.
His letter
to Vittoria Colonna, on the subject
of his sister's marriage, 109.
Removes to Bergamo, 111.
Commencement
of his friendship with
the son of the duke d'Urbino,
112.
Diversities of circumstances,
scene, and company,
calculated to cherish and confirm
all his natural aspirings, 114.
Remark upon a line of Boileau
which has done more injury to
his reputation than all the splenetic
criticisms of Sperone, 115.
Critique on his Writings, 116.
Studies the works of his great
Italian predecessors, 117.
Employed
by his father in transcribing
his multitudinous poems and
letters, 118.
Sudden and passionate
admiration with which his
"Rinaldo" was hailed throughout
Italy, 119.
Placed at Padua
to study jurisprudence, 122.
Gives
up the law, and devotes himself
to philosophy and the Muses, 123.
His reply to his father's remonstrance,
124.
The appearance of
his "Rinaldo" the dawn of a
new day in the literature of
his country, 124.
All the characteristics
of his peculiar genius
perceptible in the incidents, style,
embellishments, and conduct of
this juvenile essay, 126.
Repairs
to Bologna to pursue his natural
studies, and indulge in his
poetical passion, 127.
Expelled
from Bologna for a literary squib,
128.
Removes to Padua, where
he is inrolled member of the
Academy degli Eterei, 129.
Devotes
much of his attention to
the works of Aristotle and Plato,
129.
Remarks on his "Discourse
on Heroic Poetry," 130.
Nominated
one of the personal attendants
of the duke of Ferrara, 131.
Arrives at Ferrara, and is received
into the service of the duke's
brother, 132.
Commencement of
his acquaintance with the princesses
Lucretia and Leonora of
Este, 133.
His description of
his own emotions during his first
visit and sojourn at Ferrara, 134.
Writes an epithalamium on the
marriage of the princess Lucretia,
136.
His attachment to the
princess Leonora, 137.
Accompanies
the cardinal Luigi to the
court of France, 138.
Personal
anecdotes of, 139.
Accompanies
the embassy to Rome; his interview
with the pope, 140.
Prosecutes
that splendid crusade of
his Muse the poetical siege of
Jerusalem, 140.
His "Aminta"
received with universal admiration
throughout all Italy, 142.
Illness occasioned by his anxiety
about his "Gerusalemme Liberata,"
144.
Charged with heresy
against Aristotle and good taste
on one hand, and on the other
with heresy against the church
and good morals, 145.
Escapes
from his splendid captivity to
Rome; appointed historiographer
to the house of Este, 146.
Incident
which exhibits him not
less in the character of a hero than
he had hitherto figured in that of
the laureate of poets, 147.
Growing
symptoms of a mind diseased, 148.
His strange melancholy, 149.
Flies secretly to Ferrara to visit
his sister at Sorrento, 150.
Anecdote of, 151.
Committed to
St. Anne's Hospital as a lunatic;
his letter to Scipio Gonzaga
during his confinement, 152.
His
representation of the treatment
which he experienced during his
confinement, 153.
His sonnets
to the cats of the hospital, imploring
them to lend him the
light of their eyes to write by,
154.
Pursues his studies with
unabated ardour and intensity,
155.
His wild imaginations, 156.
Liberated at the special intercession
of the prince of Mantua,
157.
His controversy with the
Della Cruscan Academy during
his imprisonment, 158.
Remarkable
circumstances of his last
days, 159.
Visits Rome, 160.
His death, in the fifty-first year
of his age, 161.
His personal and
poetical character, 161.
Tassoni, Alessandro, his birth, parentage,
and early education;
studies jurisprudence at Ferrara,
II. 169.
Enters the service of
cardinal Colonna; publishes his
"Considerations on various Subjects,"
171.
Outline of the principal
episode of. "Secchia Rapita,"
172.
His death, in the
seventy-first year of his age, 173.
Timoneda, III. 99.
Tiraboschi, I. 179.
Torella, Damigella, II. 76.
Tormes, Lazarillo de, III. 101.
Tornabuoni, Lucrezia, I. 167.
Torres, Balthazar de, III. 133.
Torricelli, II. 58.
Turpin, archbishop, I. 169.
U.
Ubaldi, Guido, II. 4.
Ugo IV., king of Cyprus and Jerusalem,
I. 144.
Urban V., pope, I. 145.
Urbino, Gentile d', bishop of Arezzo,
I. 152.
Urbino, captain Diego de, III. 127.
Urbino, donna Isabel de, her marriage
with Lope de Vega, III. 199.
Her death, 200.
Usategui, Luis de, III. 227.
V.
Vega, Garcilaso de la, his birth and
parentage, III. 37. His early predilection
for poetry and music,
38. Commences his career of
arms in the war declared against
France by Charles V., 39. Incurs
the displeasure of the
emperor, and is exiled to an
island of the Danube, 39. His
ode in commemoration of his imprisonment
characteristic of his
disposition, 40. Is recalled, and
attends the emperor in his expedition
against Tunis; is severely
wounded, 41. Extract from one
of his elegies to Boscan, 42. Appointed
by the emperor to command
eleven companies of infantry,
in the expedition against
France, 45. Killed in an engagement
at Muy, near Fréjus, in
the thirty-third year of his age,
46. His person and character,
47. Review of his poetry, 48.
Mr. Wiffen's translation of his
ode "To the Flower of Gnido,"
53.
Vega, Lope de, compared with
Cervantes, III. 189. His birth
and parentage, 190. Early indications
of talent, 191. Anecdote
characteristic of his vivacious
disposition, 192. His intimacy
with the grand inquisitor; enters
the university of Alcala, 193.
Enters the service of the duke
of Alva, 194. Writes the "Arcadia"
at the request of the
duke of Alva, 195. Style and
story of the poem, 196. His
marriage, 198. Engaged in a
duel, which obliges him to leave
Madrid, 199. Returns to Madrid,
becomes a soldier, and joins the
In vincible Armada, 200. Southey's
translation of his sonnets, 202.
Outline of his work entitled
"Dorotea," 204. His animated
description of the setting forth of
the Armada, 208. Writes the
"Beauty of Angelica" on the
deck of the San Juan, 210. Story
of the poem, 211. His extravagance
and prodigality, 210. His
advice to his son, 212. His
domestic afflictions, 214. Leaves
the gaieties of secular life, and
prepares for the priesthood, 215
Visits Toledo, and takes orders;
says his first mass in a Carmelite
church, 216. Becomes a familiar
of the Inquisition, 216. His rising
character as an author, 217.
His amiable character, 217. Rises
higher and higher in the estimation
of the public, 219. Writes a
poem on the death of Mary
queen of Scots, entitled "Corona
Tragica," which he dedicates to
the pope, 220. Exaggeration with
regard to the number of verses
written by him, 221. Anecdote
of, 221. His epistles and other
poems a picture of the tranquillity
of his life as he advanced in age,
222. His amiable disposition and
placid temper, 224. His last illness,
225. His death, 226. His
person and character, 227. Review
of his writings, 228. Analysis
of the "Star of Seville,"
233.
Vella, Antonio de la, III. 140.
Velser, Mark, II. 25.
Vettori, Francesco, I. 292.
Veyga, Luis de, III. 324.
Viardôt, his exertions to discover
the yet hidden circumstances of
Cervantes' life, III. 121.
Vicente, Gil, styled the Portuguese
Plautus, III. 292. Style of his
writings, 293.
Villalobos, physician of Charles V.,
one of the earliest of the Spanish
dramatists, III. 96.
Vellégas, Estévan Manuel de,
named the Anacreon of Spain,
III. 240. His birth and parentage,
240. His death, 240. His
translation
of Anacreon, 241. Translation
of his original Anacreontics,
2420.
Villena, the Marquis of, so celebrated
for his acquirements in
natural and metaphysical knowledge,
that he was looked on as
a magician, also admired as a
poet, III. 13.
Virgil, Marcellus, I. 257.
Visconti, Giovanni, I. 101.
Visconti, Galeazzo, I. 103.
Vitelli, Vitellozzo, I. 266.
Viviani, II. 68.
Voss, Gerard, II. 7.
W.
Wachenfels, II. 19.
Wiffen, Mr., his translation of
Garcilaso de la Vega's poems,
III. 49. His translation of Luis
de Leon's ode on the Moorish
invasion, 79.
Z.
Zach, baron, II. 22.
Zeno, Apostolo, I. 168.;
II. 192.
Zenobio, I. 117.
Zuniga, doña Elena de, her marriage
with Garcilaso de la Vega,
III. 39.
THE END.