  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, 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, her fasting, 37 her communications with our Saviour, 38 earns to read by miracle, ib. her marriage, 39 her renewed heart, her visions, 40 she is joked with by our Saviour, 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, 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, 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, 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, her intimacies, 350 her religious poetry, 351 visited by Charles V., visits Lucca and Ferrara, her protestant tendencies, 352 welcomed to Ferrara by Ercole d'Este, thinks of visiting the Holy Land, 354 returns to Rome, 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, her influence with Paul III., 378 her friendship with Michael Angelo, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Petrarchism in the sixteenth century, 343 Phoenix 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, retires to the Murate, 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, END OF VOLUME I. BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. FOOTNOTES: TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES —Plain text and punctuation errors fixed. —The index in this e-book was not present in the original book, it has been copied from the second volume. —Cover image produced by transcriber and placed in public domain. |
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