INDEX
INDEX
- Ability to perform his highest functions, necessary to the courtier, even if he be not called on, 283
- Abrahams, N. C. L., 421
- Absurd similes, 129
- Accolti, Benedetto, 333
- Bernardo,—see Unico Aretino
- Pietro, 333
- Accomplishments, etc., of the courtier; how to be employed, 81 et seq.;
- the proper aim of, 246 et seq.
- Achaia, 171, 387
- Achilles, 61, 62, 64, 284, 348, 349, 414
- Acquapendente, 158, 382
- Adams, Thomas, 421
- Adrian VI, 317, 413
- Adriatic, the, 8
- Adulation of princes, 248
- Ady, Mrs. Henry, 338, 399
- Æneas, 339, 393
- Æneid, a quotation from the, 365
- Æschines, 51, 54, 344
- Æsop, 78, 356, 357
- Affectation:
- “Aforesaid,” story about a Sienese who mistook Aforesaid for a name, 130
- Age, the courtier’s functions affected by his, 281, 283-4
- Agesilaus, 250, 408
- Agilulph, Duke of Turin, 393
- Agnello, Antonio, 126, 361-2
- Giulio, 362
- Agone, the Piazza d’, 249, 407
- Aguilar, the Marquess of, 384
- Alamanni, 149-50
- Albert III, Duke of Bavaria, 374
- Alberti, Giovanni, 421
- Albizzi, 370
- Albret, Charlotte d’, 377
- Alcibiades, 57, 89, 356, 402
- Aldana, Captain, 152, 379
- Aldine Press, 315, 419
- Aldus (Teobaldo Manucci), 315, 329, 332, 394, 405
- Alessandrina Library at Rome, 417
- Alexander the Great, 28, 34, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 68, 70, 103, 109, 142, 146, 205, 207, 210, 212, 274, 275, 284, 285, 338, 348, 351, 358, 401, 411, 414
- Alexander III, 364
- Alexander VI (Roderigo Lenzuoli Borgia), 10, 126, 147, 216, 318, 328, 336, 340, 361, 365, 367, 369, 371, 372, 375, 377, 380, 382, 395, 397, 400
- Alexander Jannæus, King of the Jews, 191, 389
- Alexandra, Queen of the Jews, 191, 389
- Alexandria in Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great, 274, 411
- Alexandria, the Bishop of, (Giannantonio di Sangiorgio), 142, 372
- Alexandrian Cardinal, the, (Giovanni Antonio di Sangiorgio), 142, 372
- Alfonso I of Naples, 146, 153, 156, 375-6
- Alfonso II of Naples, 10, 327, 363, 383, 397, 398, 400
- Alfonso the Magnanimous,—see Alfonso I of Naples
- Alidosi, Francesco,—see Pavia, the Cardinal of Almada, Brazaida de,—see Castagneta, the Countess of Juan Baez de, 384
- Almogaver,—see Boscan
- Altamura, the Prince of, 399
- Altoviti, 149-50
- Alva, the Duke of, 315
- “Amadis of Gaul,” 405
- Amalasontha, Queen of the Goths, 202, 393
- Ambrogini, Angelo,—see Poliziano
- Benedetto, 345
- Ambros, 359
- Ambrosiana Library at Milan, 417
- Amiable manners necessary to the courtier, 91
- Ancelin, Thibauld, 420
- Ancona, absurd duelling of two cousins of, 30
- Angelica Library at Rome, 417
- Angelier, Abel l’, 421
- Arnoul l’, 419
- Angoulême, Count Charles d’, 346
- Monseigneur d’,—see Francis I of France
- Anichino, a character in Boccaccio, 164
- Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, 202, 371, 395, 396
- Anne of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans, 371
- Antæus, 275, 411
- Antigonus, King of Macedon, 351
- Antiphanes, 364
- Antonello da Forli, 147, 376
- Antonio di Tommaso, 375
- Antonius, Marcus, (the orator), 44, 51, 339
- Apelles, 37, 68, 70, 338, 351, 402
- Apennines, 8, 43
- Aphrodite, 387, 388
- Apollo, 356
- Apollo Belvedere, 349, 410
- Aptitude for fun, requisite in a man who would be amusing, 154
- Apulia, use of music in, as a cure for bite of tarantula, 15
- Aquila, Serafino dall’,—see Serafino dall’Aquila
- Aquino, the Bishop of,—see Mario de’ Maffei
- Aragon, Alfonso II of Naples,—see Alfonso II of Naples
- Alfonso V of,—see Alfonso I of Naples
- Beatrice, Queen of Hungary, 204, 336, 397, 399, 400
- Catherine, wife of Henry VIII of England, 412
- Eleanora, Duchess of Ferrara, 204-5, 336, 363, 397, 398, 399
- Federico III of Naples,—see Federico III of Naples
- Ferdinand of,—see Ferdinand the Catholic
- Ferdinand I of Naples,—see Ferdinand I of Naples
- Ferdinand II of Naples,—see Ferdinand II of Naples
- Ferdinand the Just, 375
- Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria, 400
- Isabella, Duchess of Milan, 204, 327, 381, 398, 400
- Joanna, wife-aunt of Ferdinand II of Naples, 327, 397
- Juan II, King of Navarre and, 397
- Juana, wife of Philip of Austria, 413
- Ludovico, Cardinal, 159, 341, 383
- Archaisms of speech discussed, 39-54
- Archiuzow, an alleged Russian translator of THE COURTIER, 324
- Arco, MS. bibliographical notes by the late Count d’, 417
- Ares, 411
- Aretino, Pietro, 333
- Unico, (Bernardo Accolti),—see Unico Aretino
- Argentina, madonna, 196
- Arguzie, 121, 143
- Arion, 349
- Ariosto, Alfonso, 2, 7, 75, 171, 243, 320
- Aristippus of Cyrene, 59, 348
- Aristobulus I, King of the Jews, 389
- Aristodemus, 264, 409
- Aristogeiton, 390
- Aristotle, 34, 57, 63, 284-5, 286, 323, 370, 374, 388, 391, 409, 414
- Arms, the courtier’s true profession, 25
- Arms vs. letters, 60-2
- Arnold, Fr., 337
- Arrogance of princes, 248-9
- Art, enjoyment of beauty in nature increased by a knowledge of, 69
- Artemisia, 205, 400-1
- Arthur Tudor, son of Henry VII of England, 412
- Artifice, discussion on, 118
- Artifice in love, deprecated, 165-6
- Ascension, Venetian festival of the, 131, 364
- Ascham, Roger, 316
- Asia, 101, 275
- Asinus Domino Blandiens, one of Æsop’s fables, 357
- Asnapper (Sardanapalus), 206, 401
- Aspasia, 197, 390-1
- Assurbanipal (Sardanapalus), 206, 401
- Atanagi’s Rime Scelte, 331
- Athena, 387
- Athenian dialect:
- Athens, 101, 197
- feminine constancy commemorated by a statue at, 192
- Athos, Mount, 274, 411
- Atri, Giacomo d’, (Count Pianella),—see Pianella
- Attendolo, Muzio, called Sforza, 381
- Attire appropriate to the courtier, 102-4
- Augustus, 190, 388, 401
- Aurelian, the Emperor, 401
- Austria, Margarita of, 202, 395-6
- Maximilian of,—see Maximilian I
- Philip of, 413
- Autharis, King of the Lombards, 393
- Ayola, Maria de, 317
- Bacon, Francis, afterwards Lord Verulam, 316
- Bactria, 285, 414
- Bad government, the evils of, 249
- Bad master, the courtier to leave the service of a, 99, 285
- Baja, 274, 410
- Bajazet II of Turkey, 141, 173, 372, 388
- Balance and contrast, in art and character, 83
- Baldi, Bernardino, 327
- Baldness, jests about Bernardo Bibbiena’s, 122, 155
- Ballare and danzare compared, 352-3, 382
- Ballatore, 156, 382
- Balzo, Antonia del, 400, 404
- Isabella del, Queen of Naples,—see Isabella del Balzo
- Banchi, a street in Rome, the scene of a trick played upon Bibbiena, 159-60, 383
- Bandello, 366
- Barbara of Brandenburg, Marchioness of Mantua, 374, 404
- Barbarelli, Giorgio,—see Giorgione
- Barbarian influence upon Latin, resulting in Italian, 43
- Barbary pirates, touching incident following a husband’s rescue from, 195-7
- Barbèra, Gaspare, 422
- Bari, Roberto da,—see Roberto da Bari
- Barletta, 73, 87, 352
- Barletta, the tournament at, 351
- Barlettani, Lucrezia, 367
- Barozzi, Pietro, the (Arch-) Bishop of Padua, 136, 366
- Bartolommeo, joke concerning the name, 151
- Basa, Bernardo, 420
- Basset, a dance performed after the first evening’s discussion, 73, 352
- Battesworth, A., 421
- Bavaria, Duke Albert III of, 374
- Margarita of,—see Margarita of Bavaria
- Bayeux, the Bishop of,—see Canossa, Ludovico da
- Beatrice, a character in Boccaccio, 164, 165
- of Lorraine, 394
- Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond, 413
- Beauty:
- personal beauty requisite in the courtier, 23;
- beauty unadorned, 55;
- love defined as “a certain desire to enjoy beauty,” 288;
- two ways of enjoying beauty, 289;
- beauty, an effluence of divine goodness, 289;
- cannot be truly enjoyed by possessing the body in which it is found, 290;
- “beauty is good:” true love of beauty works for good, 291;
- effect of women’s beauty on their own character, 292-3, 296;
- “Do not believe that beauty is not always good,” 293;
- beauty, a true sign of inward goodness, 294;
- beauty through utility, 294-5;
- “the good and the beautiful are in a way one and the same thing,” 295;
- bodily beauty derived from beauty of the soul, 295-6;
- beautiful women, more chaste than ugly women, 296;
- beauty does not spring from the body wherein it shines, 298;
- beauty best enjoyed through sight and hearing, 298;
- beauty engendered in beauty, 299;
- beauty to be enjoyed for itself, and not for the sake of the body wherein it dwells, 302-3;
- the highest enjoyment of beauty is the enjoyment of beauty in the abstract, apart from bodily form, 303-4
- Beazzano, Agostino,—see Bevazzano
- Beccadello, Cesare, 160-1, 383
- Becco, a he-goat, 129, 363
- Beggar and lady at church, story of, 125
- Belcolore (a character in Boccaccio), 127
- Bellini, the, 343
- Belvedere, a pavilion in the Vatican Gardens, 274
- Bembo, Bernardo, 330
- Bembo’s Gli Asolani, 330, 336, 415
- Prose, 340
- Bentivogli, the, 375
- Bentivoglio, Francesca, 314
- Laura, 373
- Berenson, Bernhard, 343
- Berg, Adam, 420
- Bergamasque dialect, rude by contrast with others, 41, 338
- peasant, story of two great ladies deceived by a, 156-7
- Bergamo, 105, 338
- Bergamo, Lattanzio da, 376
- Bernardone, Gianfrancesco, (St. Francis of Assisi), 416
- Bernhardt, Madame Sara, 380
- Bernice of Pontus, 389
- Beroaldo, Filippo, the elder, 368
- Berry, Arthur, “Short History of Astronomy,” 360, 415
- Bersine, wife of Alexander the Great, 401
- Berto, 26, 128, 336
- Bettoni, Niccolò, 421
- Bevazzano, Agostino, 144, 374
- Francesco, 374
- Bias, 263, 408
- Bibbiena, Bernardo Dovizi da, 2, 12, 28, 32, 36, 43, 110, 121, 122, 123-65, 166, 167, 170, 230, 234, 237, 238, 244, 276, 279, 321-2, 332, 334, 342, 348, 360, 361, 363, 367, 379, 407, 413
- Bibbiena’s Calandra, 314, 321, 335, 356, 367
- Bible, citations from the, 96, 137, 139, 301, 305, 357, 366, 415, 416
- Bibulus, Marcus, 389
- Bidon, 50, 340
- Biga, Maddalena, a virtuous peasant girl, 403
- Biondo, Flavio, 410
- Birth, gentle, requisite in the courtier, 22-5
- Bischizzo, bisticcio, 136, 365
- Bishop, George, 421
- Blanc, Charles, 327
- Blanche, Queen of France, 395
- Blasphemy, to be avoided, 143
- Blind, story of two gamesters who made their companion believe that he was, 157-9
- Boadilla (or Bobadilla), My lady, (Beatriz Fernandez de Bobadilla, Marchioness of Moya), 148, 164, 377
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 3, 4, 5, 41, 42, 49, 50, 51, 52, 164, 165, 167, 323, 339
- Boccaccio’s Corbaccio, 384
- Bohemia, Ladislas II of, 397
- Boisy, Sieur de, 346
- Bologna: subdued by Julius II, 12;
- Bonaparte, Napoleon, 313
- Bonfons, Nicholas, 420, 421
- Boniface, Duke of Tuscany, 394
- Borgia, Cardinal Francesco, 156, 382
- Boristhenes,—see Dnieper
- Borso, Duke,—see Este
- Boscan Almogaver, Juan, 315, 320, 338, 377, 419, 420, 421
- Bottone, play upon the word, 152
- Bottone da Cesena, 152, 380
- Bourcidan, Claude, 420
- Bowyer, W., 421
- Box, story of Cato and a rustic who had jostled him with a, 149
- Braccesque leave, 167, 384
- Bracciano, the Dukes of, 404
- Braccio da Montone, 355
- Braidense Library at Milan, 417
- Bramante, the architect, 321, 335, 342, 381, 383, 410
- Brancaleone, Gentile, 325
- Brandenburg, Barbara of,—see Barbara of Brandenburg
- Branthôme, 368, 379, 395
- Brawl, a dance, 87, 356
- Brescian, comic story of a, 131
- British Museum Library, 316, 417
- Brittany, Anne of,—see Anne of Brittany
- Duke Francis II of, 395
- Brunelleschi, 370
- Brunet’s Manuel du Libraire, 417
- Manuel du Libraire, Supplément, 417
- Bruno, a character in Boccaccio, 161
- Brutus, Marcus Junius, 58, 190, 347, 389
- Bruyère, La, 323
- Bucentaur, the, 131, 364
- Bucephalia in India, founded by Alexander the Great, 274, 411
- Buffalmacco, a character in Boccaccio, 161
- Building architectural monuments, a duty of princes, 274
- Buonarroti, Ludovico (Simoni), 343
- Michelangelo,—see Michelangelo
- Burgundy, Charles the Bold, 396
- Burleigh, Lord, (Sir William Cecil), 316
- Burney, Dr., 359
- Burning Bush of Moses, 305
- Burning of the ships by the Trojan women, 197-8
- Bynneman, Henry, 420
- Cacus, 275, 411
- Cæcilia Tanaquil, Caia, 190, 389
- Cæsar, Caius Julius, 54, 57, 58, 118, 205, 346, 347, 360, 362, 378, 388, 389, 401
- Cæsarion, 401
- Caglio, story of the bishopric of, 137
- Calabria, Duke Alfonso of, afterwards Alfonso II of Naples, 130, 363
- Duke Ferdinand of, (son of Federico III of Naples), 205
- Calandrino (a character in Boccaccio), 127, 161, 362
- Calfurnio, Giovanni, 138, 366-7
- Caligula, the Emperor, 388
- Calixtus III., 328
- Callisthenes, 285, 414
- Calmeta, Collo Vincenzo, 71, 72, 97, 98, 99, 116, 352
- Calunnia, imputation, 384
- Calzini, Egidio, 327
- Camma, 194-5
- Cammelli, Antonio,—see Pistoia
- Campani, Niccolò, da Siena,—see Strascino
- Campaspe, 70, 351
- Cane, Facino, 355
- Canossa, Conrad of, 394
- Çapila, Miguel de, 420
- Capitol at Rome, a woman’s effort to secure the surrender of the, 199
- Captain of the Church, Duke Guidobaldo made, 10
- Capua, story of the sack of, 214
- Cara, Marchetto, 50, 340
- Carbo, Caius Papirius, 51, 344
- Cardinals:
- Cardona, Don Giovanni di, 146, 375, 376
- Cards and dice, 108
- Carillo, Alonso, 148, 150, 164, 377
- Carlos, Don, Prince of Spain, (afterwards Charles V of Spain), 276, and see Charles V of Spain
- Carmenta, another name for Nicostrate, 391
- Carnesecchi, G., 422
- Carpaccio, 343
- Carpentras, the Bishop of,—see Sadoleto, Giacomo
- Casanatense Library at Rome, 417
- Casanova, Marcantonio, his distiches on “The Spartan Mother Slaying Her Son,” 393
- Castagneta, the Count of, 384
- Castel del Rio, the Lord of, 375
- Castellina, story about the siege of, 130, 363
- Castiglione, Anna, 314
- A. P., 421
- Count Baldesar, 6, 7, 75, 171, 243, 276, 313-5, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 322, 323, 325, 327, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 337, 338, 340, 342, 343, 344, 346, 347, 348, 349, 351, 356, 357, 358, 360, 361, 362, 363, 364, 367, 369, 375, 379, 382, 383, 384, 387, 388, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 398, 399, 400, 404, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, 413, 415, 419, 420, 421
- his Tirsi, 314, 331, 332
- Count Camillo, 314, 347
- Castiglione, Count Cristoforo, 313
- Castile, 202, 203
- Castillo, Andrea, 382
- a Spanish name jestingly bestowed upon a Bergamasque cow-herd, 156
- Castor, 404
- Castriani, Antonio da, Bishop of Cagli, 366
- Castro, Violante de, 384
- Cataline’s conspiracy, 200, 392
- Cato, Marcus Porcius, 44, 146, 339
- Cato Uticensis, Marcus Porcius, 149, 181, 190, 378
- Catonian severity of countenance assumed hypocritically, 209
- Catria, Mount, 309
- Cattanei, Tommaso,—see Cervia, the Bishop of
- Cattani, Francesco, da Diacceto,—see Diacceto
- Catullus, 55, 126, 345, 346
- Caucasia, 285
- Cavaillon, the Bishop of,—see Mario de’ Maffei
- Cavalcalovo, Gerolamo, 420
- Cavalier servente, 361
- Cavriani Library at Mantua, 417
- Cecil, Sir William, afterwards Lord Burleigh, 316
- Cellini, Benvenuto, 346, 350, 379, 382, 414
- Celsus, St., 383
- Ceres, 197
- Cerignola, humourous incident after the battle of, 147, 376
- Cervia, the Bishop of, (Tommaso Cattanei), 153, 382
- Cesena, Bottone da,—see Bottone
- Ceva, the Marquess Febus di, 71, 114, 351
- Chalcondylas, Demetrios, 313, 344, 374
- Chancery, the, 159, 383
- Chaperon, Jean, 315
- Chapman, John Jay, 348
- Chapuis, Gabriel, 420, 421
- “Characters,” a work by Theophrastus, translated and afterwards expanded by La Bruyère, 323
- Charlemagne, the Emperor, 413
- Charles the Bold of Burgundy, 396
- Charles V of Spain, 276, 314, 315, 319, 332, 337, 371, 387, 396, 413, 414
- Charles VIII of France, 117, 202, 317, 327, 328, 330, 347, 360, 367, 368, 371, 372, 373, 374, 381, 395, 396, 398, 400, 409
- Charlotte of Savoy, 395
- Chase, the, an appropriate pastime for the courtier, 31
- Chastity:
- Chaumont, the Grand Master de, 379-80
- Cheirocrates, 411
- Chess: 108-9;
- story of the monkey who played, 133-4
- Chigi, Agostino, 383
- Chigiana Library at Rome, 417
- Chignones, Diego de, 139, 368
- Chilon of Sparta, 408
- Chios, a story of Philip V’s siege of, 200
- Chiote women and their husbands, a story of, 200-1
- Chiron, 64, 349
- Choice of friends, 105-7
- Christian Cicero, the, (Lactantius Firmianus), 392
- Chrysoloras, 370
- Cian, Vittorio, 334, 335, 349, 353, 367, 369, 373, 377, 378, 379, 380, 382, 383, 422
- Ciarla, Magia, 342
- Ciccarelli, Antonio, 363, 377, 420, 421
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 5, 44, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 129, 200, 339, 346, 362, 363, 379, 389, 392, 408
- Cicero’s Brutus, 323
- Cicero, the Christian, (Lactantius Firmianus), 392
- Ciminelli, Serafino,—see Serafino dall’Aquila
- Cimon, 250, 407-8
- Circe, 272, 409
- Circumspection:
- Cithern:
- Civita Vecchia, 274, 410
- Claudio, Scipio, 419
- Claudius, the Emperor, 388
- Clearchus, “tyrant of Pontus,” 264, 409
- Clement VII (Giulio de’ Medici), 314, 317, 319, 331, 335, 345, 369, 374
- Cleobulus of Rhodes, 408
- Cleopatra, 205, 401
- Clerke, Bartholomew, 420, 421
- Clermont, Isabelle de, Queen of Naples, 327, 397
- Cleves, Anne of, 371
- Cloquemin, Loys, 420
- Cloven Tongues, 305
- Clymene, 408
- Colin, Jacques, 315-6, 419, 420
- Colonna, Caterina, 394
- Columbus, Christopher, 396
- Comino, Giuseppe, 421
- Command, he is always obeyed who knows how to, 265
- Commines, 395
- Commonwealths, Duke Guidobaldo in the service of the Venetian and Florentine, 10
- Como, the Bishop of, 366
- Concealment:
- Conduct, Federico Fregoso propounds rules of, 83
- Confession of ignorance, discussed, 116-7
- Conquest, princes ought not to aim at, 266
- Consalvo de Cordoba, 139, 141, 147, 204, 313, 327, 368-9, 371, 376, 400
- Constable, T. and A., printers, 422
- Conti, Bernardina, 371
- Continence and temperance, contrasted and discussed, 257
- Continence of Scipio, the story of the, 207-8
- Contrast and balance, in art and character, 82-3
- Conversation, to be varied to suit the company, 92
- Conversion of the heathen, 275-6
- Cooke, Sir Anthony, 316
- Cordoba, Consalvo de,—see Consalvo
- Francisco Fernandez de,—see Fernandez
- Corinna, 197, 391
- Corio, Lodovico, 324, 422
- Cornelia, 190, 344, 389
- Corrozet, Gelles, 419
- Corsiniana Library at Rome,
- Corvinus, Matthias,—see Matthias Corvinus
- Coscia, Andrea, 152, 380
- Costume appropriate to the courtier, 102-4
- Cotta, Caius Aurelius, 51, 344
- Courage requisite in the courtier, 25
- Court Lady, the:
- beginning of the discussion on, 173;
- must be womanly, 175;
- her need of beauty, 176;
- must be affable, vivacious, witty, not too prudish, 176;
- not too familiar, not a scandal-monger, tactful in conversation, 177-8;
- not addicted to over-rugged exercises, or too ready to dance or sing, 179;
- her dress, 179-80;
- must be no less well informed than the courtier, and understand even those exercises that she does not practise; she must also be accomplished in literature, music, painting and dancing, 180;
- Pallavicino objects to such multiplicity of acquirement, 181-2
- COURTIER, THE BOOK OF THE. reasons for writing, 1, 7;
- Courtiers’ duty to entice their prince towards virtue, 250-1
- Courtiership:
- Crassus, Lucius Licinius, the orator, 44, 49, 51, 339, 344
- Marcus Licinius, the triumvir, 347
- Crassus Mucianus, Publius Licinius, 101, 358
- Crato, Johannes, 420
- Creede, T., 421
- Crema, Margarita, 362
- Cretans, cultivators of music, 64
- Crimson velvet, jest about a captain who celebrated his infrequent victories by wearing, 152
- Crivello, Biagino, 153, 381
- Crotona, the five beautiful maidens of, 70, 351
- Cuña, Don Pedro de,—see Messina, the Prior of
- Cuppis (or Coppi) da Montefolco, Bernardo de, 404
- Lucrezia de, 404
- Curll, E., 421
- Curtius Rufus, Quintus, his History of Alexander the Great, 358
- Custom, the basis of manners, 7
- Cyrene, 348
- Cyrus, 201, 393, 400
- Damasco, play upon the word, 150
- Dances: see Basset, Brawl, Morris-dance, Moresca, Roegarze
- Dancing:
- Dante, 323, 330, 339, 340, 363, 381
- Dante’s Divina Commedia, 323
- Danzare and ballare compared, 352-3, 382
- D’Arco, MS. bibliographical notes by the late Count, at Mantua, 417
- Darius III of Persia, 103, 207, 212, 358, 401
- Dauson, Thomas, 420
- Day, John, 420
- Death from excessive joy, an instance of, 195-7
- Deceased friends, the author’s eulogy of his, 2-3, 243-4
- Deceptions and tricks practised by lovers, 217-8
- Defects and foibles, limits to be observed in ridiculing, 128
- Defender of the Faith, origin of the title, 412
- Deianeira, 415
- Demarata, 390
- Demetrius I of Macedon, 69, 351, 392
- Demetrius II of Macedon, 200, 392
- Democritus, 124, 337, 361
- Demosthenes, 344
- Denham, Henry, 420
- Dennistoun, James, 317, 322, 334
- Dennistoun’s “Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino,” 335, 337, 377, 397
- Derketo, a Syrian goddess, 401
- Deserve, the best way to win princes’ favour is to deserve it, 96
- Devices (imprese), 12, 330
- Diacceto, Francesco Cattani da, 51, 345-6
- Diacceto’s Tre Libri d’Amore, 346
- Diana, 194
- Digressions from the main subject of the work:
- Dinocrates, 411
- Dio of Syracuse, 285, 414-5
- Diocletian, the Emperor, 404
- Diogenes Laertius, 348
- Diomed, 275, 411
- Dionysius the Elder of Syracuse, 348, 415
- Dionysius the Younger of Syracuse, 285, 415
- Diotima, 197, 308, 391
- Disguises, fancy dress, etc., 87-8
- Disparagement, to be avoided, 115-6
- Divorce, impliedly favoured, 224
- Djem Othman, 141, 371-2
- Dnieper, comic story of words frozen in crossing the, 132-3
- Dolce, Ludovico, 420
- Dolet, Estienne, 419
- Domenico, a printer at Venice, 420
- Donatello, 341
- Donato, Geronimo, 136, 365-6
- Don Carlos, Prince of Spain, (afterwards Charles V of Spain), 276, and see Charles V of Spain
- Donkey, story of peasant who had lost his, 128-9
- Double entente, instances of allowable, 125
- Doves, story of a tiresome fellow and his, 148
- Dovizi, Bernardo,—see Bibbiena Pietro, 321
- Drake, S., 421
- Drawing, a necessary accomplishment for the courtier, 65
- Dreams, Alfonso I’s jesting advice to a servant regarding, 153
- Dress:
- Ducats:
- Duchess of Urbino, the,—see Gonzaga, Eleanora and Elisabetta
- Duel:
- Due torti, play upon the words, 151
- Duhamel, l’Abbé, 421
- “Duke Borso,”—see Este, Borso d’, Duke of Ferrara
- “Duke Federico,”—see Montefeltro, Federico di, Duke of Urbino
- “Duke Filippo,”—see Visconti, Filippo Maria
- “Duke Valentino,”—see Borgia, Cesare
- Durán, Alfonso, 421
- Dürer, Albert, 342, 343
- Earth, story about disposing of earth from an excavation, 129-30
- Edward III of England, 387
- Edward IV of England, 413
- Edward VII of England, 380
- Egano, a character in Boccaccio, 164, 165
- Egnatius, a character in Catullus, 55, 346
- Egypt, the pyramids of, said to have been built in order to keep the Egyptians busy, 267
- Eleanora of Portugal, 396
- Elias, 305
- Elis in Achaia, 171, 387
- Elizabeth of England, 316, 329
- Elizabeth of Portugal, 387
- Elizabeth of York, 412, 413
- Elmo, St., 147, 376
- Elocution, the essentials of, 4
- Emanuel I of Portugal, 133, 364
- Emilia Pia,—see Pia
- Empedocles, 337
- Employment of the courtier’s qualities, etc., beginning of Federico Fregoso’s discourse upon, 80
- England, the author’s absence in, 8, 276, 325
- Ennius, Quintus, 44, 49, 148, 339
- Envy, the courtier to avoid arousing, 82
- Epaminondas, 64, 250, 349, 408
- Ephesus, 68
- Epicharis, 192, 390
- Epimetheus, 252, 408
- Equicola, Mario, 398
- Equipment of the cavalier, the necessity for proper, 85
- Erasmus, 348, 357, 367
- Erasmus, St., 376
- Eris, the goddess of discord, 387
- Errea, Elvira, 368
- Erythræans, the, 200, 393
- Este, Alfonso d’, Duke of Ferrara, 322, 330, 363, 399, 400
- Beatrice d’, Duchess of Milan, 204, 333, 336, 338, 352, 363, 381, 394, 398, 399
- Bianca Maria d’, 394
- Borso d’, Duke of Ferrara, 77, 355, 363, 384
- Ercole d’, Duke of Ferrara, 129, 330, 336, 363, 398, 399
- Ginevra d’, 394
- Ippolito d’, Cardinal, 22-3, 329, 336, 363
- Isabella d’, Marchioness of Mantua, 204, 332, 333, 334, 338, 341, 343, 352, 363, 381, 394, 398-9, 409, 413
- Niccolò d’, Duke of Ferrara, 355, 363, 384
- Este family, eulogy of the women of the, 202
- Ettore Romano Giovenale, 71, 351-2
- Europe and Asia, united by Alexander the Great, 275
- Eurydice, 384
- Evander, 44, 197, 339, 391
- Evil:
- Exalted station attained by several members of the court of Urbino, 244
- Exercises:
- Eye, story of the quack and the peasant who had lost an, 150
- Fabié, Antonio Maria, 320, 367, 377, 383, 417, 421
- Fabius Pictor, Quintus, 65, 349
- Fagiani, Bernardin, 420
- Falsehood, the origin of princes’ errours, 248
- Fancy dress and masks, 87-8
- Farri, Domenico, 420
- Fasanini, Landomia, 383
- Favorinus, 357
- Favours, not in general to be sought by the courtier, 94-6
- Federico III of Naples, 205, 358, 383, 397, 399, 400
- Fedra (Tommaso Inghirami), 138, 367, 375
- Feltre, Vittorino da,—see Vittorino da Feltre
- Ferdinand I of Naples, 327, 363, 383, 397, 400
- Ferdinand II of Naples, 10, 35, 118, 141, 204, 327-8, 368, 397, 400
- Ferdinand the Catholic:
- Ferdinand the Just, King of Aragon and Sicily, 375
- Fernandez de Cordoba, Francesco, 420
- Ferrara, the Dukes of,—see Este
- Fetti, Fra Mariano,—see Fra Mariano Fetti
- Fiaccadori, 421
- Ficino, 345
- Fierezza, boldness, 83, 356
- Fiery Chariot of Elias, 305
- Fig-tree, story about a man who begged a branch from his neighbour’s, 149
- Filiberta of Savoy, 320, 346
- Filiberto, Duke of Savoy, 396
- Filippello’s wife, a character in Boccaccio, 164, 165, 166
- Filippo, Duke,—see Visconti, Filippo Maria
- Finger-rings, story of Alfonso I’s, 146
- Firmianus, Lactantius, “the Christian Cicero,” 392
- First impression:
- Five nuns and the friar, story of the, 136-7
- Flogged, story of man condemned to be, 129
- Florence, 39, 43, 44, 140, 151
- Florence, the Archbishop of, (Roberto Folco), 142, 372
- Florentine Council, humourous sally made in the, 149-50
- Florentine territory, story of a soldier who had fled from, 147
- Florentines, wont to wear the hood, 104
- Florido, Orazio, 71, 352
- Foglietta, Agostino, 145, 374-5
- Foglino, Scarmiglione da, 377
- Foix, Gaston de, 379
- Folco, Roberto, Archbishop of Florence, 142, 372
- Forden, Katherine, 316
- Foreign phrases, instances of allowable use of, 46
- Forged document of renunciation, story of a, 151
- Forli, Antonello da,—see Antonello da Forli
- Fornovo, the battle of, 360
- Fortebracci, Braccio, 384
- Fra Mariano Fetti, 16, 122, 162, 335
- France, 31, 57, 97, 114
- Francia, Francesco Raibolini, better known as, 332
- Franciotti, Gianfrancesco, 361
- Francis I of France, 56-7, 275, 315, 320, 322, 330, 332, 337, 341, 346, 347, 371, 376, 387, 405, 412, 413
- Francis II, Duke of Brittany, 395
- Francis, St., 308, 416
- Fra Serafino, 16, 37, 108, 162, 335
- Frederick Barbarossa, 360, 364
- Frederick III, Emperor of Germany, 396
- Fregosa, Costanza, 14, 54, 73, 334
- Fregoso, Agostino, 322
- Costanza,—see Fregosa
- Federico, 12, 19, 39, 40, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 72, 80, 81, 83, 86, 88, 90, 91, 93, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 113, 114, 117, 118, 120, 121, 122, 155, 169, 170, 172, 173, 221, 222, 223, 224, 234, 244, 294, 321, 330, 331, 334, 340, 346, 367, 407
- Ottaviano, 2, 12, 17, 18, 163, 167, 168, 174, 218, 240, 241, 242, 244, 245-87, 322, 330, 334, 376, 407, 409, 414
- French fashion of dress:
- Frenchmen:
- Friar and the five nuns, story of the, 136-7
- Friars, hypocrisy of the, 188-9
- Friends:
- Frigio, Niccolò,—see Frisio
- Frisio (or Frigio), Niccolò, 12, 169, 172, 174, 188, 191, 192, 194, 195, 197, 205, 216, 279, 334, 402
- Frosinone, the battle of, 379
- Frozen words, story about, 132-3
- Gæa, 411
- Galatea, 388
- Galba, Sergius Sulpicius, 44, 51, 340, 344
- Galeotto, Giantommaso, 138, 367
- Galeotto Marzi da Narni, 136, 365, 367
- Galpino, a servant of “My lord Magnifico,” 144
- Gama, Vasco da, 364
- Gambara, Veronica, 395
- Gambling, 108
- Games proposed by various members of the court, 13-9
- Gaming, 108
- Garigliano, the battle of, 313
- Garter, the order of the, 173, 313, 387
- Garzia, Diego, 141, 371
- Garzoni’s L’Hospidale de Pazzi Incurabili, 373
- Gaspar, my lord,—see Pallavicino
- Gaultier, Pierre, 420
- Gazuolo, story of a peasant girl of, 214
- General repute, illustrations of the influence of, 113
- Generosity, a duty of princes, 273-4
- Generous, all givers are not, 276-7
- Genoa, the Doge of,—see Fregoso, Ottaviano
- Genoese Riviera, wine from the, 113
- Genoese spendthrift, retort made by a, 139
- Gentle birth, requisite in the courtier, 22-5
- George, St., 404
- German fashion of dress:
- German student at Rome, story of a, 139
- German women of Roman times, heroism of, 201
- Geryon, 275, 411
- Ghirlandajo, 343
- Giancristoforo Romano, 12, 66, 135, 333, 404
- Gianluca da Pontremolo, 151
- Giglio, Domenico, 420, 421
- Giolito de’ Ferrari, Gabriel, 419, 420
- Giorgio da Castelfranco,—see Giorgione
- Giorgione, 50, 313, 343-4, 350, 369
- Giovenale, Ettore Romano, 71, 351-2
- Giovio, Paolo, 330, 369, 420
- Giulia, a virtuous peasant girl, 403
- Giulio Romano, 314
- Giunta, the heirs of Filippo di, 320, 419, 421
- Giunti, Benedetto, 419
- Giunti, the heirs of Bernardo, 420
- Glutton, rebuke administered by the Marquess Federico to a, 145
- Goethe’s “Travels in Italy,” 334-5
- Golden Fleece, the order of the, 173, 387
- Gonnella, a buffoon, 162, 384
- Gonnella, Bernardo, his father, 384
- Gonzaga, Alessandro, 142, 143, 373
- Barbara, Duchess of Würtemberg, 394, 404
- Cecilia, 394
- Cesare, 12, 14, 21, 28, 32, 37, 69, 70, 86, 96, 104, 128, 131, 134, 174, 179, 208, 210, 213, 215, 216, 218, 231, 235, 236, 237, 243, 245, 257, 269, 273, 296, 307, 309, 331-2, 402, 403, 407
- Eleanora, Duchess of Urbino, 244, 318, 407
- Elisabetta, Duchess of Urbino, 2, 11-2, 13, 16, 20, 32, 43, 71, 73, 80, 104, 112, 156, 163, 167, 169, 170, 172, 174, 175, 216, 221, 228, 236, 241, 242, 245, 265, 269, 273, 280, 287, 288, 292, 297, 307, 309, 314, 317, 318, 322-3, 329, 334, 335, 341, 352, 380, 388, 394, 398, 404, 405, 407, 409
- Federico, Marquess of Mantua, 145, 148, 279, 322, 340, 373, 409
- Federico, Marquess and afterwards Duke of Mantua, 279, 343, 362, 373, 374, 379, 413-4
- Francesco,—see Gianfrancesco
- Giampietro, 331
- Gianfrancesco, Marquess of Mantua, 274, 313, 317, 318, 341, 352, 360, 372, 373, 374, 381, 383, 398, 407, 409-10, 413
- Gianfrancesco, uncle to “My lady Duchess,” 404
- Giovanni, 142, 373
- Ludovico, Bishop of Mantua, 215, 403-4
- Ludovico, Marquess of Mantua, 374, 404
- Luigi, 331
- Luigia, 313
- Maddalena, 380
- Margarita, 73, 192, 352
- Gonzaga family, eulogy of the women of the, 202
- Good, the correlative and necessary accompaniment of evil, 78
- Good government, three forms of, 260
- Gosilano, the Count of, (Don Pedro di Cardona), 375
- Goths, the time when Italy was ruled by the, 202
- Governo misto, 261, 269-70, 409
- Gracchi, the, 344, 389
- Gracchus, Caius Sempronius, 51, 344
- Grace:
- Grace requisite in the courtier, 23
- Granada, the conquest of, 203, 219-20
- Grand Turk, the,—see Bajazet II
- Graphic narrative, 127
- Gravity of visage, the effect of pleasantry heightened by, 154
- Great Captain, the,—see Consalvo de Cordoba
- Greece, 65, 192, 219
- Greek:
- Greek dialects, discussion of, 47
- Gregory, St., 393
- Grove’s Dictionary of Music, 359
- Guicciardini, 409
- Hadrian’s mausoleum, afterwards the Castle of St. Angelo, 367
- Handmaidens, the Festival of the, 199-200, 392
- Hands, the beauty of, 55
- Hanging, the method by which a Spanish cavalier hoped to escape, 148-9
- Hannibal, 58, 201, 274, 347, 376, 392, 408
- Harmodius, 390
- Harmonia, 191, 389-90
- Harsy, Denys de, 419
- Hasdrubal, 191, 389
- Helen of Troy, 351, 387, 415
- Henry, Prince of Wales,—see Henry VIII of England
- Henry IV of England, 413
- Henry V of England, 412-3
- Henry VII of England, 313, 327, 412-3
- Henry VIII of England, 276, 332, 348, 371, 412
- Hera, 387
- Heraclea, 390
- Hercules, 171, 275, 305, 408, 411, 412
- Hermes, 339, 391
- Hermit, Lavinello’s, a character in Bembo’s Gli Asolani, 288, 415
- Hernand, Pietro, 368
- Hernand y Aguilar, Gonzalvo,—see Consalvo de Cordoba
- Herodotus, 400
- Herrick, Robert, 338
- Hesiod, 49
- Hiero of Syracuse, 191, 389-90
- High standard, to be aimed at, even if a higher cannot be attained, 116
- Hipparchus, 390
- History, the courtier to be versed in, 59
- Hobbie, Sir Thomas, 316
- Hoby, Thomas, 316, 420, 421, 422
- William, 316
- Hohenstauffen rulers of Naples, 375
- Homer, 41, 44, 49, 53, 57, 61, 62, 284, 315, 348, 391
- Honesty and uprightness, requisite in the courtier, 56
- Honour of women, discussion as to the regard to be shown to the, 162
- Horace, 44, 340
- Horse afraid of weapons, story about a, 138
- Horse-breeding, 274
- Horsemanship, the courtier to be an adept in, 30
- Hortensius Hortalus, Quintus, 44, 339
- Huguetan, Jean, 420
- Humanities, the courtier to be versed in the, 59
- Humour, beginning of the discussion on, 120
- Hunchbacks, story of two, 151
- Hungary, “the other queen of,”—see Aragon, Beatrice
- Hunyadi, János, of Hungary, 397
- Husbands and wives, ill treatment between, 193
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, 405
- Iapetus, 408
- Icarus, 342
- Ignorance:
- Iliad, the, kept by Alexander the Great at his bedside, 57
- Imitation, in literary style: 41;
- more necessary for the moderns than for the ancients, 49
- Imprese (devices), 12, 330
- Improbabilities, to be avoided in conversation, 119
- Incongruity, the source of laughter, 124
- Incontinence in men, no more excusable than unchastity in women, 206
- India, 285
- Inghirami, Paolo, 367
- Innocent VIII, 341, 371, 372
- Innuendo, instances of witty, 145-7
- Innys, William, 421
- Ippolito d’Este,—see Este
- Isabella del Balzo, Queen of Naples, 205, 397, 399-400
- Isabella the Catholic:
- Isaia di Pippo of Pisa, 333
- Ischia, the island of, 319
- Ismail Sufi I of Persia, 173, 387-8
- Isocrates, 51, 344, 409
- Isola Ferma, 222, 405
- Italian language, derived from the Latin, 43
- Italians:
- Italy, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 40, 43, 44, 46, 103, 114, 171, 198, 202, 274, 347
- James I of England, 413
- James IV of Scotland, 413
- Janus, 407
- Japan, THE COURTIER said to have been carried to, 324
- J. C. L. L. J., an anonymous German translator of THE COURTIER, 316, 421
- Jem,—see Djem
- Jena University Library, 417
- Jerome, St.,—see St. Jerome
- Jobinus, Bernhardus, 420, 421
- Johannes Hyrcanus, King of the Jews, 389
- John III of Portugal, 317
- John, King of Hungary, 397
- Joly, Aristide, (De Balthassaris Castillionis opere, etc.), 417
- Jousting, deemed by Djem too serious for sport, 141
- Jove, 184, 252, 388
- Jovinianus, St. Jerome’s first tract against, 388
- Juan, Infant of Castile, 396
- Juan II of Castile, 396
- Juan II of Navarre and Aragon, 397
- Judgment Day, story of lady who dreaded to appear nude on the, 132
- Julius II (Giuliano della Rovere), 10, 12-3, 137, 138, 151, 153, 274, 313, 314, 318, 319, 321, 325, 328-9, 330, 332, 334, 335, 336, 342, 343, 361, 365, 366, 371, 372, 375, 377, 378, 380, 382, 383, 400, 404, 410, 413
- Juno, 199
- Jupiter Feretrius, 325
- Juste, Françoys, 419
- Justice, the good prince’s first care, 270
- Justinian, the Emperor, 393
- “King Louis,”—see Louis XII
- “King of France, The,” a phrase signifying the acme of royal power, 272
- Kiss, the origin and meaning of the, 300-1
- Knowledge, the essential prerequisite of literary style, 45
- Kratzer, Lorenz, 316, 420
- Lacedemonians, cultivators of music, 64
- Ladislas II of Bohemia, 397
- Lady at church and the beggar, story of the, 125
- Lælius, Caius (Sapiens), 51, 106, 344, 358
- Laïs, 402
- Landi, Agostino, 334
- Landriano, Gerardo, Bishop of Como, 366
- Language, in what consists the excellence of, 53
- Languages, the courtier ought to know many, 115
- Laocoön, the, 349
- Lapi, Checca, 384
- Lascaris, Constantine, 330, 397
- Lasso, Pedro, 420
- Latin:
- Latinistic forms of several Italian words advocated, 48, 54, 340
- Latino Giovenale de’ Manetti, 151, 379
- Latrin tongue, 136
- Lattanzio da Bergamo, 376
- Laughter:
- Laura, 220, 404-5
- Laure de Noves, 405
- Lavinello, 415
- Lavinello’s Hermit, a character in Bembo’s Gli Asolani, 288, 415
- Law, princes’ need to show respect for, 271
- Leæna, 192, 390
- Leaping, an accomplishment proper for the courtier, 31
- Leghorn, 196
- Lei, Bernardino, Bishop of Cagli, 366
- Lemonnier, Felice, 421
- Lenzuoli, Giuffredo (or Alfonso), 328
- Roderigo,—see Alexander VI
- Leo X (“My lord Cardinal”), 152, 313, 314, 317, 319, 320, 321, 322, 329, 331, 332, 333, 335, 336, 337, 340, 341, 342, 345, 352, 361, 362, 364, 365, 368, 369, 370, 373, 374, 380-1, 382, 411, 413
- Leonardo da Vinci, 50, 336, 337, 341, 346, 350, 366, 381
- Leonico Tomeo, Niccolò, 145, 374
- Letters:
- Leuconia, 200, 393
- Liberty, 259-61
- Library of the Palace of Urbino, 9, 331
- Library of the Spanish Academy at Madrid, 417
- Libreria Salesiana, 421
- Literary piracy:
- Literary style, discussion of, 3-5, 38-54
- Literary usage:
- Livy (Titus Livius), 47, 326, 340, 358, 375, 391
- Lombard, the author admits writing as a, 5
- Lombards:
- Lombardy: 104;
- eulogy of noble ladies of, 204
- Longinus, the lance of, 372
- Longis, Jean, 419
- Lor—, Jean, 419
- Loreto, Our Lady of, 158, 382
- Lorraine, Beatrice of, 394
- Louis, St., 395
- Louis IX of France, 395
- Louis XI of France, 387, 395
- Louis XII of France, 141, 202, 313, 318, 330, 332, 337, 341, 346, 359, 371, 376, 381, 395, 396, 400, 409
- Louise of Savoy, 346
- Love:
- the course to be pursued by women (married and unmarried) in love, 223-40;
- how men are to win women’s love, 229-30;
- how men are to declare their love, 231-2;
- openness in love, 233-4;
- how love is retained, 234-6;
- rivalry in love, 234-6;
- secrecy in love, 237-40;
- whether love be seemly in an old courtier, 286-7;
- beginning of Bembo’s discourse on Platonic love, 288;
- love defined as “a certain desire to enjoy beauty,” 288;
- defects of carnal love, 290;
- maturity less prone to carnal love, than youth, 291;
- true love of beauty is beneficent, 291;
- sensual love in a measure excusable in the young, 292;
- sensual love not excusable in those of mature years, 292, 297;
- spiritual love, 304-5;
- Bembo’s invocation to divine love, 305-7;
- instances in which the mysteries of divine love have been revealed to women, 308
- Love talk, the course to be pursued by women in, 221-3
- Loyalty requisite in the courtier, 25
- Loyson, Estienne, 421
- Lucca, Proto da,—see Proto da Lucca
- Lucca, story of the sables and the merchant of, 132-3
- Lucian, 357
- Luciani, Sebastiano, “del Piombo,” 335
- Luciano of Laurana, architect of the Palace of Urbino, 410
- Lucullus, Lucius Licinius, 58, 205, 250, 347, 408
- Luther, 313, 330, 333
- Luzio, Alessandro, 399
- Luzio and Renier’s Mantova e Urbino, 410
- Lycurgus, 64, 349
- Lyons, a practical joke played by Bibbiena on the bridge at, 160-1
- Lysias, 51, 344
- Lysis the Pythagorean, 250, 408
- Machiavelli, Niccolò, 316, 328, 385, 409
- Machiavelli’s “Art of War,” 376
- Maffei, Mario de’, da Volterra,—see Mario de’ Maffei
- Maggi, Graziosa, 332
- Magnificence, a duty of princes, 273-4
- Mahaffy, J. P., 359
- Mahomet, 275
- Mahomet II of Turkey, 371, 372
- Mamurius Veturius, 339
- Man, the laughing animal, 123
- Manetti, Latino Giovenale de’,—see Latino Giovenale
- Manlius Torquatus, Titus, 100, 357
- Manner and time of employing the courtier’s accomplishments, 81 et seq.
- Manners, excessive freedom of, to be avoided, 114
- Manrique, Don Garci Fernandez, 384
- Mantegna, Andrea, 50, 341-2, 360, 372, 395, 409
- a son of Andrea, 395
- Mantua, the Bishop of,—see Gonzaga, Ludovico
- the Marquesses of,—see Gonzaga
- Manucci, Teobaldo,—see Aldus
- Manutius, Aldus,—see Aldus
- Marano, a heretic, a renegade Moor, 139, 369
- Marcantonio, Master, 152, 380
- Marcella, Elena, 330
- Marcello, Silvestro, 319
- Marciana Library at Venice, 417
- Marcus Antonius, (the orator), 44, 51, 339
- Margarita of Austria, 202, 395-6
- Margarita of Bavaria, Marchioness of Mantua, 322, 373, 374, 409
- Mariano Fetti, Fra,—see Fra Mariano Fetti
- Mario de’ Maffei da Volterra, 144, 374
- Marius, Caius, 201, 393
- Mark Antony, 190, 347, 388
- Markets, the New and Old, at Florence, 145
- Marliani’s Life of Castiglione, 420, 421
- Marriage, the right time for, 268-9
- Mars Gradivus, 339
- Martin V, 319, 325
- Mary of Burgundy, 395, 396, 413
- Mary Magdalen, St., 308
- Mary Tudor, wife of Louis XII of France, 371
- Marzi, Galeotto, da Narni,—see Galeotto
- Masks and fancy dress, 87-8
- Mass, jest about speed in saying, 152-3
- Mass-book, story of the, 137-8
- Massilia, custom of providing means of self-destruction at, 192, 390
- Massimo, Roberto, da Bari,—see Roberto da Bari
- Massot, Estienne, 421
- Master Serafino, 150
- Matilda, the Countess, 202, 393-4
- Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, 204, 336, 365, 397-8, 399
- Mausolus, King of Caria, 401
- Maximilian I, Emperor of Germany, 143, 202, 359, 367, 371, 387, 395, 396, 397, 400, 413
- Mayer, Johann, 421
- Mazzoleni, 421
- Mazzuchelli, Count Giammaria, Life of Castiglione, 417
- Medici, Caterina de’, 346
- Cosimo de’, Pater Patriæ, 140, 151, 345, 362, 370, 376, 378, 381
- Giovanni de’, (Cosimo’s father), 370
- Giovanni de’, "delle Bande Nere," 337
- Giovanni de’, "My lord Cardinal,"—see Leo X
- Giuliano de’, (brother of Lorenzo the Magnificent), 345, 378
- Giuliano de’, “My lord Magnifico,” 2, 12, 37, 42, 56, 64, 71, 89-90, 102, 132, 142, 144, 168, 169, 170, 172, 174-238, 244, 256, 276, 280, 281, 308, 320-1, 331, 339, 341, 342, 343, 346, 349, 380, 390, 407, 414
- Giulio de’,—see Clement VII
- Grasso de’, 62, 348
- Ippolito de’, 320, 329
- Lorenzo de’, Duke of Urbino, 319, 321, 330, 352
- Lorenzo de’, the Magnificent, 51, 145, 320, 321, 335, 343, 345, 359, 378, 380
- Pietro de’, 345
- Meliolo, Bartolommeo, 384
- Men and women, beginning of the discussion on the comparative excellence of, 182
- Menerola, Teodora, 328
- Mercury, 252
- Merula, Giorgio, 313
- Messina, the Prior of, (Don Pedro de Cuña), 150-1, 378
- Metastasio, P., 421
- Metrodorus, 69, 351
- Micard, Cl., 420
- Michael, apparently a tutor to Castiglione’s son, 347
- Michelangelo Buonarroti, 2, 50, 67, 313, 320, 321, 328, 329, 343, 350, 410
- Michelet on Louis XII of France, 371
- Milan, 153
- Miletus, the Bishop of,—see Pavia, the Cardinal of
- Milles, Guillermo de, 419
- Miltiades, 408
- Mime,—see Moresca
- Mimicry, the limits to be observed in, 127-8
- Minerva, 89, 252
- Miniana Compagnia, la, 421
- Minutoli, Riciardo, a character in Boccaccio, 164, 165, 166
- Miser:
- Mithridates VI, Eupator, King of Pontus, 191, 389
- Mixed government, 261, 269-70
- Moderate fortunes, less power possessed by the very rich than by men of, 271
- Moderation, the essence of virtue, 277-8
- Modesty requisite in the courtier, 26
- Molart, Captain, 152, 379
- Monarchy vs. democracy, 259-61
- Monima of Pontus, 389
- Monkey, story of chess played by a, 133-4
- Monpezat, Pedro, 419
- Montaigne:
- Monte, Pietro, 12, 34, 92, 174, 333-4
- Pietro dal, 334
- Montechiarugolo, Count Guido Torello di, 314
- Montefeltro, Agnese di, 319
- Antonio di, 329
- Aura di, 376
- Battista di, 394
- Brigida Sueva di, 394
- Count of, (in 1154), 325
- Federico di, Duke of Urbino, 9, 129, 156, 265, 274, 317, 325-6, 327, 356, 362, 376, 381, 410
- Gentile di, 322
- Giovanna di, 318
- Guidantonio di, Duke of Urbino, 325
- Guidobaldo di, Duke of Urbino, 1, 9-11, 80, 129, 138, 147, 152, 313, 317-8, 319, 321, 322, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 342, 343, 344, 352, 376, 377, 387, 394, 404, 410
- Oddantonio di, Count of Urbino, 325
- Violante di, 394
- origin of the name, 325
- Montefeltro family, eulogy of the women of the, 202, 394
- Montefiore Inn, synonymous expression for a bad inn, 155, 382
- Montone, Braccio da, 355
- Moors:
- Morello, Sigismondo, da Ortona, 12, 46, 83, 90, 91, 92, 292, 293, 294, 296, 299, 332
- Moresca, mime, morris-dance, 15, 81, 87, 335
- Morgante Maggiore, a poem by Luigi Pulci, 365
- Morosina, 331
- Morris-dance,—see Moresca
- Mosca, Giambattista Vendramini, 421
- Moses, 305
- Mount Athos, 274, 411
- Mount Catria, 309, 416
- Mount Œta, 305, 415
- Moya, the Marchioness of,—see Boadilla
- Munchausen, 364
- Muscovy, the Duke of, 132
- Music:
- affectation in, 37;
- the variety of, 50;
- the courtier to have skill in, 62;
- praise of, 62-5;
- to be regarded by the courtier as a pastime, 88;
- certain kinds recommended, 88-9;
- certain kinds to be avoided, 89;
- musical performance forbidden to the aged, 89-90;
- musical training essential to appreciation of, 90
- "My lady Duchess,"—see Gonzaga, Elisabetta
- "My lady Emilia,"—see Pia
- “My lord Cardinal,” i.e., Giovanni de’ Medici,—see Leo X
- "My lord Duke,"—see Montefeltro, Guidobaldo di
- "My lord Gaspar,"—see Pallavicino
- "My lord Magnifico,"—see Medici, Giuliano de’
- "My lord Prefect,"—see Rovere, Francesco Maria della Myrtis, 391
- Naples, 1, 110, 274
- Napoli, Pietro da,—see Pietro da Napoli
- Narni, Galeotto Marzi da,—see Galeotto Marzi da Narni
- Nasica,—see Scipio Nasica
- National Library at Madrid, 417
- National Library at Paris, 417
- Navarre, the King of, 377
- Navarre and Aragon, Juan II of, 397
- Navò, Curzio, 419, 421
- Nazarius, St., 383
- Nemours, the Duke of,—see Medici, Giuliano de’
- Neologisms, the allowable use of, 47
- Nero, the Emperor, 192, 388
- New York Public Library, 417
- Nicholas V (Tommaso Parentucelli), 127, 362
- Nicoletto (Paolo Niccolò Vernia), 116, 359
- Nicoletto, da Orvieto, 142, 373
- Nicostrate, 197, 391
- Nino di Ameria, Giacopo di, Bishop of Potenza, 135, 365
- Ninus, the husband of Semiramis, 401
- Nonchalance:
- “Not at home,” story of Scipio and Ennius who pretended to be, 148
- Novara, 337
- Novelle of Boccaccio, 161
- Noves, Audibert de, 405
- Laure de, 405
- Novillara, Count of,—see Castiglione, Baldesar
- Noyse, Johann Engelbert, 316, 421
- Nucio (or Nutio), Martin, 419
- Nudity, story of lady who dreaded the Judgment Day because of her, 132
- Nutio,—see Nucio
- Nutt, David, 422
- Obedience:
- Obscenity, to be avoided, 143
- Ockenheim, 359
- Octavia, 190, 388
- Odasio of Padua, 329
- Odenathus, King of Palmyra, 401
- Œta, Mount, 305, 415
- Oglio, story of the peasant girl who drowned herself in the, 214-5
- Old age:
- Old fashions, instances of, in manners and attire, 79
- Olschki, Leo, 417
- Olympia, 387
- Olympian Jove, 171
- Olympic games, 171
- Oratory:
- Orestes, 106, 358
- Oriental courts, manners of, 173
- Orlando, a character of mediæval romance, 365
- Orléans, Duke Charles d’, 371
- Orléans, the Duke of,—see Louis XII
- Orpheus, 167, 184, 349, 384, 388
- Orsini, Clarice, 320, 380
- Giangiordano, 404
- Ortona, Morello da,—see Morello
- Orvieto, Nicoletto da, 142, 373
- Oscan language, 49, 340
- Othman, Djem,—see Djem Othman
- Our Lady of Loreto, 158, 382
- Ovid, 237, 315, 390
- Ovid’s Ars Amandi, 352, 366, 404, 405
- Oyselet, Georges l’, 420
- Padovano, Giovanni, 419
- Padua, 116, 136, 161
- Paduan flavour in Livy’s style, 47
- Pæonius’s “Victory,” 387
- Paganino, Alessandro, 419
- Paglia, story of the practical joke played in the inn at, 157-9
- Painting:
- Paleologus, Margarita, Duchess of Mantua, 414
- Paleotto, Annibal, 134, 135, 364, 367
- Pallas, 197, 356
- Pallavicino, Count Gaspar, 12, 13, 14, 23, 27, 30, 41, 63, 64, 85, 88, 100, 104, 105, 107, 108, 112, 118, 129, 142, 143, 144, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 172, 173-4, 175, 178, 181-2, 185, 186, 190, 193, 194, 197, 199, 201, 202, 203, 206, 207, 209-10, 213, 218, 221, 223, 226, 231, 237, 238-40, 243, 245, 251, 254, 259, 261, 264, 267, 268, 269, 272, 285, 286, 287, 296, 307, 308, 332, 403, 407
- Palma Vecchio, 343
- Panætius, 250, 408
- Pandora, 408
- Paolo, a dutiful son, 196
- Paolo Romano, 333
- Paredes, Diego Garcia de, 371
- Parentucelli, Tommaso,—see Nicholas V
- Paris, the “noble school” of, (the Sorbonne), 57, 346-7
- Paris and the three goddesses, 172, 387
- Parmesan, the battle fought in the, i.e., the battle of Fornovo, 117, 360
- Passano, Giambattista, (I Novellieri Italiani), 417
- Passavant, 342
- Passions, to be tempered, not extirpated, 257-8
- Past, declared to be inferior to the present, 79
- Paul, St., 129, 308, 363
- Paul III, 317, 369
- Paullus, Simon, 421
- Paulus, Lucius Æmilius, 69, 351
- Pausanias, 390
- Pavia, the battle of, 376, 387
- Payne, Olive, 421
- Pazzi, Gianotto de’, 151, 378
- Peace, the arts of war no more glorious than those of, 265-6
- Pedrada, Sallaza dalla, 140, 370
- Pelagio, Guido del, 374
- Peleus, 284, 387, 414
- Penalties for crime, preventive rather than punitive, 253
- Pepoli, the Count of, 139, 369
- Peralta, Captain Luijse Galliego de, 152, 379
- Pergamus, 358
- Periander of Corinth, 408
- Pericles, 208, 391, 402, 403
- Persecutions endured by girls at their lovers’ hands, 216-8
- Perseus, King of Macedon, 351, 392
- Persia:
- Alexander the Great’s conquest of, 103;
- the King of (in the time of Themistocles), 275;
- the Sophi King of,—see Ismail Sufi I
- Persians defeated in battle, story of their wives’ rebuke, 201
- Personal attention, princes’ need to attend personally to the execution of their commands, 265
- Personal service, the perfect courtier not busied with, 174
- Perugia, two cousins who fought at, 30
- Perugino, 342
- Pescara, the Marchioness of,—see Colonna, Vittoria the Marquess of, 319, 322
- “Peter Piper,” 365
- Petrarch, 41, 42, 44, 49, 50, 51, 52, 220, 323, 339, 345, 348, 383, 404, 405
- Petrarch’s Trionfo d’Amore, 340
- Phædra, a character in Seneca’s Hippolytus, 367
- Phèdre, a tragedy by Racine, 367
- Philip of Austria, 413
- Philip of Burgundy, 387
- Philip of Macedon, 34, 143, 374, 414
- Philip V of Macedon, 200, 392
- Phœnix, 284, 414
- Phrigio,—see Frisio
- Phrisio,—see Frisio
- Phryne, 402
- Physiognomists, who read a man’s character and thoughts in his face, 294
- Pia, Alda, 394
- Pianella, Count, (Giacomo d’Atri), 142, 373-4
- Piazza d’Agone at Rome, 249, 407
- Piccinino, Niccolò, 77, 355-6
- Piccolomini, Æneas Silvius,—see Pius II
- Pierpaolo, 36
- Pietro Antonio da Vinci (Leonardo’s father), 341
- Pietro da Napoli, 12, 62, 93
- Piety towards God, princes’ need of, 270
- Pindar, 197, 391
- Pinturicchio, 351
- Pio, Alberto, 329, 332, 394
- Pio family, eulogy of the women of the, 202
- Piombo, Sebastiano del,—see Luciani
- Pippi, Giulio, called Romano, 314
- Pirithous, 106, 358
- Pisa:
- Pisan war, story about Florentine methods of raising funds for, 130-1
- Pisan women, bravery of, 205
- Pistoia, 131, 363
- Pistoia (Antonio Cammelli), 142, 373
- Pittacus of Mitylene, 408
- Pius II (Æneas Silvius Piccolomini), 361
- Pius III (Francesco Todeschini), 126, 361
- Plato, 5, 63, 78, 181, 269, 284, 285, 286, 308, 313, 345, 364, 370, 391, 409, 415
- Plato’s “Laws,” 388
- Plautus, 44, 340, 363
- Plautus’s Menæchmi, 321
- Trinummus, 336
- Pleasantries:
- Pliny, 349, 351, 391
- Plotinus, 308, 416
- Plutarch, 356, 364, 389, 391, 393, 408, 411, 412, 414
- Plutarch’s “Apothegms and Famous Sayings of Spartan Women,” 393
- Podestà, explanation of the word, 360
- Poetry, the courtier to be versed in, 59
- Poisoned cannon shot, story about, 130
- Poland, the King of, 132
- Poliphilian words, 235
- Politian,—see Poliziano
- Poliziano, 51, 320, 327, 344-5
- Pollux, 404
- Pompey (Pompeius), Cneius, 58, 346, 347, 378
- Pontormo, 358
- Pontremolo, Gianluca da,—see Gianluca
- Pontus, 264
- Ponzio, Caio Caloria, 161-2, 383
- Popes, play upon the names of two, 126-7
- Porcaro, Antonio, 138, 367, 370
- Porcia, 190, 389
- Porta, Domenico dalla, 151
- Portalegre, Diego de Silva, Count of, 317
- Porto, 274, 410
- Portugal, Eleanora of, 396
- Portuguese mariners, discoveries by the, 133
- Porzio,—see Porcaro
- Poseidon, 349, 411
- Potenza, the Bishop of, (Giacopo di Nino di Ameria), 135, 365
- Pozzuoli, 274, 410
- Practical jokes, instances of, 155-62
- Practice vs. precept, 267-8
- Praise, to be modestly disclaimed, 60
- Prato, 131, 363
- Praxiteles’s “Hermes,” 387
- Precept vs. practice, 267-8
- Prefect of Rome,—see Rovere, Francesco Maria della
- Près, Josquin de, 113, 359
- Present, declared to be superior to the past, 79
- Primero, or primiera, a game of cards, 382
- Princes:
- Procella, fury or storm, 94, 357
- Procrustes, 275, 411
- Prometheus, 252, 408
- Proto da Lucca, 137, 366
- Protogenes, 37, 69, 338
- Provençal:
- Provence, René of, 375, 395
- Provincial flavour, not necessarily a blemish in literary style, 47
- Ptolemy, 389
- Publius Licinius Crassus Mucianus, 101-2, 358
- Pulci, Luigi, 365
- Puns, instances of, 126-7, 134-5, 137-9
- Purifying influence of love, 219
- Purism of speech deprecated, 52
- Pygmalion, 175, 388
- Pylades, 106, 358
- Pyramids of Egypt said to have been built in order to keep the Egyptians busy, 267
- Pythagoras, 90, 171, 357
- Pythagoreans, the, 356
- Quack, story of the peasant who had lost an eye and consulted a, 150
- Qualities of the courtier, how to be employed, 81 et seq.
- Rabani, Vettor de’, 419
- Racine, 367
- Raibolini, Francesco, better known as Francia, 332
- Raleigh, Professor Walter, 316, 422
- Rampazzetto, Francesco, 420
- Rangone, Count Ercole, 139, 369
- Raphael, 2, 50, 66, 67, 149, 313, 321, 333, 342-3, 378, 410, 411, 415
- Ravenna, the battle of, 378, 379
- Recitative, 89
- Regio, Raffaele, 367
- Reinhardstöttner’s article on the German translations of THE COURTIER, 417
- Remondini, 421
- Remus, 378
- René of Provence, 375, 395
- Renier, Rodolfo, 373, 399
- Reputation:
- Rhodes, 69
- Riario, Cardinal, 383
- Richard III of England, 413
- Richmond, Edmund Tudor, Earl of, 412
- Rigutini, Giuseppe, 327, 422
- Rinaldo, a character of mediæval romance, 365
- Ritius, Johannes, 420, 421
- Rivadeneyra, Manuel, 421
- Rivera, Donna Costanza de, 377
- Don Luis de, 377
- Rizzo, Antonio, 151, 378
- Roberto da Bari, 12, 36, 127, 128, 225, 226, 228, 244, 332-3
- Roegarze, a dance performed after the first evening’s discussion, 73, 352-3
- Roma, a Trojan woman, 198
- Roman Academy, the, 369, 370
- Romano, Giancristoforo,—see Giancristoforo Romano
- Romano Giovenale, Ettore, 71, 351-2
- Rome, 12, 68, 86, 110, 122, 126, 136, 139, 141, 146, 153, 159, 197, 198, 199, 201, 216, 249, 274
- Romulus, 198, 199, 378, 392
- Rose-colour, Cosimo de’ Medici’s advice to a silly ambassador to wear, 151
- Rossi, U., 404
- Vittorio, his article on Caio Caloria Ponzio, 383
- Rota (or Ruota) della Giustizia, a law court, 151, 379
- Rovere, Caterina della, “a brave lady,” 26
- Felice della, 216, 404
- Francesco Maria della, “My lord Prefect,” and afterwards Duke of Urbino, 1, 70, 71, 80, 119, 120, 121, 138, 152, 244, 309, 314, 318-9, 328, 332, 351, 352, 367, 368, 375, 380, 404, 407
- Galeotto della, Cardinal of San Pietro ad Vincula, 122, 159, 361, 371, 383
- Giovanni della, 318, 328
- Giuliano della,—see Julius II
- Luchina della, 361
- Lucrezia Gara della, 371
- Raffaele della, 328
- Rovillio, Gulielmo, 335, 420
- Roxana of Bactria, 414
- Roxana of Pontus, 389
- Rules of conduct propounded by Federico Fregoso, 83
- Ruskin, John, 351
- S:
- Sabine women and their Roman husbands, the story of the, 198-9
- Sables, story of the merchant of Lucca and his, 132-3
- Sade, Hughes de, 405
- Sadoleto, Giacomo, 139, 331, 369
- Giovanni, 369
- Saguntine women, bravery of, 201, 393
- St. Ambrose, Jacques Colin, Abbot of, 315
- St. Angelo, the Castle of, 367
- St. Celsus, 383
- St. Elmo, 147, 376
- St. Erasmus, 376
- St. Francis, 308, 416
- St. George:
- St. Gregory, 393
- St. Jerome, 188
- St. Jerome’s Epistle on Widowhood, 388
- St. Louis, 395
- St. Mary Magdalen, 308
- St. Michael, the French order of, 173, 387
- St. Nazarius, 383
- St. Paul, 129, 308, 363
- St. Peter and St. Paul, story about a picture in which Raphael had represented, 149, 377-8
- St. Peter’s, the Church of:
- St. Sebastian, the basilica of, 404
- St. Stephen, 308
- Salerno, the Archbishop of,—see Fregoso, Federico
- Salian priests, 44, 339
- Sallaza dalla Pedrada, 140, 370
- Sallust, 346
- Saluzzo, Rizzarda di, 363
- Salvadori, Giulio, 421
- Samber, Robert, 421
- San Bonifacio, Count Ludovico da, 139, 369
- San Celso, 159
- San Gallo Gate at Florence, 145
- San Giacomo, the Church of, at Padua, 384
- San Giorgio, Giovanni Antonio, "the Alexandrian Cardinal,"—see Alexandrian
- San Leo, story of Duke Guidobaldo and the castellan who had surrendered, 147, 376-7
- San Magno, Masella di, 358
- Sannazaro, Giacopo, 113, 358-9
- Giacopo Niccolò, 358
- San Pietro ad Vincula, the Cardinal of,—see Rovere, Galeotto della
- San Sebastiano, story of an outrage committed near the Church of, 215-6
- Sansecondo, Giacomo, 123, 361
- Sanseverino, Galeazzo, 34, 337-8
- Roberto, 337
- San Silvestro, picture painted by Raphael for the Church of, 378
- Sansoni, G. C., 421, 422
- Santacroce, Alfonso, 146, 375
- Santa Maria in Portico, the Cardinal of,—see Bibbiena
- Santi, Giovanni, 342, 376
- Raffaello,—see Raphael
- Sanzio, Raffaello,—see Raphael
- Sappho, 197, 391
- Sardanapalus, 206, 401
- Savona, 216, 404
- Savonarola, 328, 363
- Savoy, Charlotte of, 395
- Scarmiglione da Foglino, 377
- Schaeffer, Carl, 421
- Schultz, a printer, 421
- Scipio Africanus Maximus, 207, 347, 377, 401, 402, 408
- Scipio Africanus the Younger, 51, 58, 106, 146, 190, 205, 210, 250, 340, 344, 358, 408
- Scipio Nasica, Publius Cornelius, 148, 377
- Sciron, 275, 411
- “Scissors,” 192
- Scoto, Girolamo, 420
- Scott, Mary Augusta, 316, 332
- Sculpture and painting, the comparative merits of, 66-8, 349-50
- Scythia, 285
- Scythians:
- Sebastian, St., the basilica of, 404
- Sebastiano, a brother of Fra Serafino, 335
- Self-confidence requisite in the courtier, 28
- Self-depreciation, to be avoided, 117
- Self-praise discussed, 25-7
- Self-seclusion of princes, 249
- Selim I of Turkey, 372, 388
- Semiramis, 205, 401
- Seneca’s Hippolytus, 367
- Sera, Francesca del, 343
- Neri del, 343
- Serafino, Fra,—see Fra Serafino
- master, 150
- Serafino Ciminelli d’Aquila, 142, 352, 373
- Serassi, Pierantonio, 421
- Seres, William, 420
- Sertenas, Vincent, 419
- Seven Sages of Greece, the, 408
- Sforza, Anna, first wife of Alfonso d’Este, 399
- Battista, Duchess of Urbino, 317, 326, 394
- Bianca, 337
- Bianca Maria, 396
- Caterina, 336-7
- Francesco, Duke of Milan, 326, 341, 355, 381, 394, 397, 398
- Francesco Maria, 399
- Galeazzo Maria, Duke of Milan, 337, 381
- Giangaleazzo, Duke of Milan, 381, 398
- Ippolita Maria, Queen of Naples, 327, 397, 398
- Ludovico il Moro, Duke of Milan, 153, 313, 327, 332, 336, 337, 341, 371, 373, 381, 395, 396, 398, 399, 409
- Maximilian, 399
- Muzio Attendolo, 381
- Shakspere, 403
- Sibyls, the, 197, 390
- Sicily, 195
- Sidney, Sir Philip, his “Arcadia,” 359
- Siena:
- Silius Italicus, Caius, 52, 53, 346
- Silva, Diego de, Count of Portalegre, 317
- Silvestri, Giovanni, 421
- Simbeni, 420
- Similes and metaphors in pleasantry, 142
- Simone, a character in Boccaccio, 161
- Simoni, Ludovico Buonarroti, 343
- Simpleton, retort made by Lorenzo de’ Medici to a, 145
- Sinning against light, 255-6
- Si non caste, tamen caute, 189, 388
- Sinoris, 194, 195
- Sismondi, 328
- Sixtus IV, 318, 326, 328, 359, 396, 404
- Slater, H., 421
- Slavonia, jest about a comedy so elaborate as to need for its setting all the wood in, 152
- Social inferiors, consorting with, 85-6
- Socrates, 56, 57, 63, 78, 90, 181, 308, 344, 348, 356, 391, 402, 408
- Solomon, 220, 405
- Solon of Athens, 391, 408
- Sonzogno, Edoardo, 324, 422
- Sophocles, 402
- Sorbon, Robert, 346-7
- Sorbonne, the, 57, 346-7
- Spain, 1, 204, 207, 315
- Spaniards:
- Spanish fashion of dress:
- Spartan women, bravery of, 201
- Speaking and writing, to be governed by essentially the same rules, 40
- Sprezzatura (nonchalance), 35, 338
- Squarcione, Francesco, 341
- Stadia, computation of the size of Hercules’s body based upon a comparison of the different, 171
- Stagira, 285, 414
- Stasicrates, 411
- Statira of Pontus, 389
- Stature, the courtier to be of moderate, 29
- Stazioni, 136, 366
- Stephen, St., 308
- Stesichorus, 294, 415
- Stilico, 313
- Stoic philosophers, 82
- Strascino (Niccolò Campani da Siena), 128, 362
- Strozzi, Palla degli, 140, 370
- Suetonius, 360
- Sulla, Lucius Cornelius, 58, 347
- Sulpicius Rufus, Publius, 51, 344
- Sumptuary regulations, commended, 278
- Swimming, an accomplishment proper for the courtier, 31
- Symonds, John Addington, 315, 327, 339, 345, 359, 360, 369, 370, 409, 412
- Synattus, 194, 195
- Synesius, 357
- “T-A” (a printer’s initials), 419
- Tacitus, Cornelius, 52, 53, 346, 368
- Taft, taftah, taffety, 364
- Tarpeia, 392
- Tarquinius Priscus, 190, 389
- Tasso, the poet, 333
- Girolamo, a printer, 421
- Tatius, Titus, 198, 199, 392
- Teeth, the beauty of, 55
- Temperament of men and women discussed, 186-7
- Temperance and continence, contrasted and discussed, 257
- Tenda, Beatrice di, 355
- Tennis:
- Tennyson’s “Cup,” Castiglione’s version of the story on which was founded, 194-5, 390
- Teramo, the Bishop of,—see Porcaro, Camillo
- Terpandro, Antonio Maria, 12, 334
- Thales of Miletus, 408
- Themistocles, 64, 76, 275, 349
- Themistus of Syracuse, 389
- Theodatus, 393
- Theodolinda, Queen of the Lombards, 202, 393
- Theodora, wife of the Emperor Theophilus, 202, 393
- wife of the Emperor Justinian, 393
- Theodoric the Great, 393
- Theophilus, the Emperor, 393
- Theophrastus, 5, 323
- Theseus, 106, 275, 358, 411
- Thetis, 387
- Tiber, first Trojan landing at the mouth of the, 198
- Ticknor, the historian of Spanish literature, 315
- Time, the true test of literary and other excellence, 6
- Time and manner of employing the courtier’s accomplishments, 81 et seq.
- Timeliness, a requisite in pleasantries, 154
- Timur the Tartar, 387
- Tintoretto, 351
- Tipografia dei Classici Italiani, la, 421
- Tirsi, an eclogue by Castiglione, 314, 331, 332
- Tisias (Stesichorus), 415
- Titian, 313, 320, 343, 407
- Titus Tatius, 198, 199, 392
- Todeschini, Francesco,—see Pius III
- Toldo, Pietro, 315
- Tolosa, Paolo, 151, 378
- Tomeo, Niccolò,—see Leonico
- Tommaso, Antonio di, 375
- Tommaso, messer, of Pisa, 195-6
- Tomyris, 205, 400
- Torello, Antonio, 151, 378-9
- Torre, Geronimo della, 366
- Torresano, Federico, 419
- Tortis, Alvise de, 419
- Total abstinence, 258
- Touans, Pedro, 419
- Trajan, the Emperor, 410
- Tricks and deceptions practised by lovers, 217-8
- Trifles, instances of books written about, 93, 357
- Trino, Comin da, 420
- Trojan Horse, the, 244
- Trojan settlement in Italy, a story of the, 197-8
- Trojan War, the origin of the, 387
- Trombone, story about playing the, 131
- Troy:
- True Lovers’ Arch, 222
- Truth, the courtier’s chief aim should be to inform his prince of the, 247
- Tudor, Arthur, 412
- Tullius,—see Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Turin, Duke Agilulph of, 393
- Turk, the Grand, (Bajazet II),—see Bajazet II of Turkey
- Turkish fashion of dress:
- Turks and Moors, 275
- Turler, Hieronymus, 316, 420
- Turnus, 44, 339
- Tuscan dialect:
- Tuscany, 4, 5, 39, 40, 43, 44
- Duke Boniface of, 394
- Tutula, 392
- Tyrant, witticism against a tyrant falsely reputed to be generous, 145
- Tyrants, evils suffered by, 263-4
- Ubaldini, Bernardino, 376
- Ubicini, the brothers, 421
- Ufficio grande and ufficio della Madonna, 137-8, 366
- Ugolini, Paulo, 421
- Ulysses, 284, 409
- Unico Aretino, 12, 16, 17, 80, 81, 179, 228, 229, 230, 333, 335, 352
- Urbino, 8, 9, 13, 80
- a Count of, in 1216, 325
- daily life at the court of, 10-2
- the Duchess of,—see Gonzaga, Eleanora and Elisabetta
- the Duke of,—see Montefeltro and Rovere
- Usage:
- Utility, an element of beauty, 295
- Valentino, Duke,—see Borgia, Cesare
- Valerius Maximus’s “Memorable Doings and Sayings,” 390, 401
- Vanozza, Rosa, 377
- Varano, Costanza da, 394
- Varchi, 348
- Variety of occupations, inculcated, 31
- Varlungo, the priest of, (a character in Boccaccio), 127
- Varro, Marcus Terentius, 54, 346
- Vasari, Giorgio, 341, 343, 350
- Vatican Library at Rome, 417
- Vaulting on horseback, proper for the courtier, 31
- Venery, an appropriate pastime for the courtier, 31
- Venetians:
- Venice, 131, 147
- Venus, 309
- Venus Armata, 199, 392
- Venus Calva, 199, 392
- Vernacular (i.e., Italian), the courtier to be proficient in the use of the, 59
- Vernia, Paolo Niccolò,—see Nicoletto
- Verocchio, 341
- Verulam, Lord, (Francis Bacon), 316
- Vesme, Count Carlo Baudi di, 357, 417, 421
- Vespasiano, 326
- Vesta, 393
- Vestal Virgins, 201
- Vinci, Leonardo da,—see Leonardo da Vinci
- Viol, 88-9, 356
- Viotti, Antonio di, 419
- Virgil, 41, 44, 47, 49, 52, 53, 339, 359
- Virtù, la, a feminine quality, 169
- Virtue, whether it is inborn or capable of being acquired, 251 et seq.
- Visconti, Bianca Maria, 381
- Viseu, the Bishop of,—see Silva
- Vite, Timoteo della, 342
- Vitruvius, 342, 411
- Vittorino da Feltre, 325
- Vittorio Emanuele Library at Rome, 417
- Vizio, il, a masculine quality, 169
- Volpi, edition of THE COURTIER annotated by the brothers, 324, 421
- Volterra, Mario da,—see Mario de’ Maffei
- Vulcan, 252, 411
- Wales, the Prince of,—see Henry VIII of England
- Weapons, the courtier to be familiar with the handling of, 29
- Wheel, the, (a court of justice), story about, 151, 379
- Wifely affection, instances of, 194-7
- Witticism and pleasantry, beginning of the discussion on, 120
- Wives and husbands, ill treatment between, 193
- Wolfe, John, 421
- Womanliness, the chief essential in the Court Lady, 175
- Womanly virtue, instances of, 190 et seq.
- Women, different kinds of men love different kinds of, 227-8
- Women afford inspiration to poets and musicians, 220
- Women and men, beginning of the discussion on the comparative excellence of, 182
- Women’s excellence in literature, music, painting and sculpture, 205
- Women’s extravagance in dress and ornament, 278
- Women’s honour, beginning of the discussion as to the regard to be shown to, 162
- Women’s innate love of honour, 209 et seq.
- Women’s usefulness to men, ancient instances of, 197 et seq.
- Women’s usual regret at not having been born men, 185
- Wrestling, the courtier to be familiar with, 29
- Writing and speaking, to be governed by essentially the same rules, 40
- Youth, characteristics peculiar to, 91