  A. Abbioso, Bishop, his courtiership, 329 Academies, tendency of, in Italy, 398 Agricola, theologian, draws up the Interim, 135 Albert of Brandenburg, 171 throws himself into Schweinfurth, 172 is driven out of Schweinfurth, 176 Aldobrandini, Cardinal, dedicated works to Isabella Andreini, 212 Alexander VII. elected, 362 his replies to Olympia's advances, 363 banishes Olympia to Orvieto, 364 Alphonso I. Duke of Ferrara, 37 rides through Ferrara at the Beffana, 45 stolen visit to his bride, 47 his difficulties with the church, 50 Alternatives for an old lady, 21 Aminta of Tasso, 218 Andreini, Isabella, her birth, 205 contemporary with Shakspeare, 206 her titles, 210 goes to France, 211 medal struck in her honour, anagrams on her name, 212 praises of, by her contemporaries, her irreproachable character, 214 her death and epitaph, her "Mirtilla," 216 her letters, her dialogues, 217 no account of her characters, 218 Andreini, Francesco, Isabella's husband, 213 Andreini Giovanni Batista, Isabella's son, 211 Angelio of Bargo, Astrologer, 28 Anna d'Este, her birth,77 Calcagnini's letter to her, 78 Curione's praises of her, her affection for Olympia Morata, 89 her marriage, 109 Antonio de' Medici, birth of, 264 Arcadia and the Arcadians, 399 nicknames, 404 falsehood in the matter of Corilla's crowning, 406 Assassinations, common in Florence, 225, 236 Augsburg in the sixteenth century, 143 Avvogaria, register of, obliteration in, 221 B. BÂle, Olympia would willingly settle at, 155 Baker, anecdote of, about B. Cappello, 223 Bayle, his remark on Isabella Andreini's epitaph, 215 "Beffana," curious custom, 44 Belvidere, near Ferrara, gardens of, 94 Bembo, anecdote of, 61 his character, 105 Olympia Morata's epitaph on him, 106 Bianca Cappello, early character, 223 her journey to Florence, 224 confined to her husband's house in Florence, 225 her personal appearance, 226 receives promise of marriage from Francesco, 234 probably cognisant of her husband's murder, 236 her character, 241 balances her accounts, 257 fictitious autobiography of, 258 her magical practices, 261 plot to impose a false heir on the Duke, 262 her fears, 264 progress in crime, 266 real nature of her witchery, 268 her bold step with Francesco, goes into retirement, 273 her ascendancy over the Duke, entertains the Court in the Oricellari gardens, 276 suborns Francesco's confessor, 290 her reception at Bologna, 291 her marriage with Francesco, 292 her coronation as daughter of St. Mark, 299 becomes reconciled to the Cardinal, 304 her claims respecting her daughtership of St. Mark, 311 her repeated pregnancies, 313 her unhappy life at Pratolino, 316 her family feeling, 318 at Cerveto, 320 declares herself again with child, 322 her interview with Pietro, 325 her pregnancy again comes to nothing, 329 her death, 332 different theories respecting it, 333, et seq. post–mortem examination, 338 grounds of Ferdinando's hatred for her, 342 her burial, 343 pasquinades on her, 344 Boccaccio, Tullia's opinion of his works, 24 Olympia Morata's translation from, 103 Bodoni's volume on Corilla's coronation, 403 Bolsec, Jerome, 111 his disputes with Calvin, 112 Bonaventuri, Pietro, his condemnation, 221 deceives Bianca, 224 receives an appointment at Court, 233 lover of Cassandra Ricci, 235 murdered in the streets of Florence, 236 Books, high value of, in the sixteenth century 160 Borso, Duke of Ferrara, 34 C. Cafaggiuolo, villa of, 255 Calcagnini, Celio, 56 his message to Olympia Morata, 62. Calvin at Ferrara, 72 turned out from Ferrara, 75 prosecutes Jerome Bolsec, 112 Cappello palace, situation of, 222 Caraffa, Cardinal, 80 Catherine de' Medici, her severe answer to Francesco, 309 Catherine II. of Russia, invites Corilla, 401 Cerreto, Ducal Villa, 320 Classical studies, female, in sixteenth century, 2, et seq. Clement VII., Pope, his dealings with the Duke of Ferrara, 51, et seq. Collar, Duke Borso's golden, 34 Comedy, Italian, in the sixteenth century, 208 Corilla, La, her real name and birth, 395 drives a thriving trade, 399 employed by Maria Theresa, 401 invited by Catherine of Russia, 401 by Joseph II., 402 enters Arcady, 403 proposals for her crowning, 405 the difficulty in the way, subjects in which she was examined, 408 her examination, 409, et seq. her coronation, 113 pasquinades on her retirement to Florence and death, 416 Cosmo I., sonnet to, 15 Cosmo de' Medici, court of, 227 Cosmo I. of Florence, founds the Florentine academy, 398 Creeds, affairs of head not heart, 122 Curione, Celio, 56 first acquaintance with Morato, 65 his adventures, conversations with Morato, 66 visit to Ferrara, 69 his letter to Olympia's mother, 140 encourages Olympia in her classical studies, 147 D. Dante's obligations to Guerrino il Meschino, 22 Death, the desire for, 194 Dialogue on Love, Tullia's, 27 Diction, over–attention to, in Italy, 83 Dominicans, church of, at Bologna, 366 Domenichi Ludovico, 17 Donati, Maria, B. Cappello's servant, 222 Drama, Italian literature weak in, 206 E. Eleonora di Teledo, patronises Tullia, 28 her death, 228 Eleonora di Garzia, 240 her murder, 255 Emilio, Olympia's brother accompanies her to Italy, 141 falls out of window, 150 his death, 198 Erbach, counts of, 178 receive Olympia, 179 their mode of life, 180 F. Family feeling in Italy, 317 Famine in Ferrara, 49 Ferdinando de' Medici, Cardinal, 237 his causes of discontent, 245 his knowledge of all that passed at Florence, 246 receives the confession of the woman who managed the introduction of Don Antonio, 266 his indignation, 267 his change of conduct after the death of the Duchess Giovanna, 287 goes to Florence in 1579, 293 his anger at leaving his brother's marriage, 294 his pecuniary difficulties, 304 his reconciliation with Bianca, 305 his misgivings respecting Bianca's intentions, 319, et seq. again in Florence, 326 refuses his brother's invitation, 328 visits Francesco for the Villeggiatura, 330 suspected of poisoning Francesco and Bianca, 334, 337, et seq. his conduct after the death of his brother, 341 his probable motives, ib. succeeds peaceably to his brother, 345 Fernandez, Fernando, La Corilla's husband, 396 Festivities at Lucrezia Borgia's marriage, 44, 48 Flach, M. invited by Olympia to translate some of Luther's works into Italian, 158 "Flourishing;" what is the period of a lady's, 20 Forca, via della, in Florence, Corilla's home, 393 Francesco de' Medici, 236 his character, 238 his court, 242 his character, his temper, 243 his wealth, 244 his interview with Orsini, 247 easily duped by Bianca's trick, 264 becomes an accomplice in introducing a false heir, 270 in the Oricellari gardens, 281 feelings on the death of his wife, 284 his wishes and fears to marry Bianca, 285 his discontent with the court of France, 288 sends poison and assassins into France, 289 consults the church with reference to his marriage with Bianca, 290 marries Bianca, 292 his munificence to them, 303 his troubles about his title, 306 why he showed no grief at his son's death, 312 his life at Pratolino, 315 his cruelty to Camilla de' Martelli, 321 his suspicions and strange conduct, 327 invites the Cardinal to Florence, 328 his death, 332 different theories respecting it, 333, et seq. his illness, 335 circumstances attending his death, 340 Frari at Venice, Archives, 220 Fugger family, 143 ridiculous blunder respecting their name, 144 their residence, G. Gallerati, Dr., his prescriptions for E. Sirani, 381 his opinion on her death, 382 Gelli, Giambatista, his comedy of the "Sporta,"210 German cities refuse to accept the Interim, 136 Gibbon, on Lucrezia Borgia, 40 Ginori, Lorenzo, pays the cost of Corilla's crowning, 406 Giovanni de' Medici, his embassy to Venice, 297 Giraldi, G. Gregorio, 56 his verses to Olympia Morata, 88 Giulia of Ferrara, 7 Gloucester, Duke of, present at Corilla's crowning, 410 GrÜnthler, Andreas, 124 his wooing, 125 marriage, 126 returns to Germany, 127 his prospects in Germany, 133 prolonged absence from his wife, 138 returns to bring his wife to Germany, 139 attends Hermann in his illness, 147 settles at Schweinfurth, 151 rejects appointment offered at Lintz, 166 struck down by pestilence in Schweinfurth, 173 obliged to borrow money, 19 in the pestilence at Heidelberg, 196 his death, 198 Guarini, Alexander, 56 Guerrazzi, his dialogue between Francesco and his brother Pietro de' Medici, 250 Guerrino el Meschino, origin of, 23 H. Hammelburg, Olympia's escape to, 177 Heidelberg, in the sixteenth century, 186 pestilence breaks out in, 196 Hercules I., Duke of Ferrara, 35 his reply to Venice, 36 his piety, 37 his death, 49 resists the Pope, 147 Hercules II., of Ferrara, his dealings with the church, 73 his unwillingness to receive Paul III., 93 Hermann, George, of Augsburg, 138 Hirschhorn, evening in the inn at, 182 History, happy times have little, 168 the makers of, Hubert, Thomas, of LiÈge, 138 Humidi, academy of, 15 Hydrostatic difficulties of the Duke of Ferrara, 97 disputes arising from, 98, et seq. I. Improvisation, talents needful for, 400 tendencies of, 401 Indulgence to Ferrara, 48 Innocent X., Pope, 351 his early preferments, 352 election to the papacy, 353 his death, 360 Innspruck, Charles V. in winter quarters at, 169 Interim, the, 135 Isabella Orsini, 228 her character, 241 her death, 248 judgment of history on her, 249 Italy loses her pre–eminence of civilisation, 123 Italian nature, dramatic, 206 J. Joan of Austria, marriage with Francesco de' Medici, 231 her unhappy position, 237, 241, 271 her extravagance, 272 has a son, ib. her death, 282 Joan, Pope, story of, 346 Julius II., Pope, designs on Ferrara, 50 Julius III., Pope, 114 L. Ladies, learned, their number in the sixteenth century, 1 Lavinia della Rovere, her friendship with Olympia Morata, 101 her religious inquiries and indifferentism, 102 visits Fannio in his prison, 116 her faithful friendship, 120 not happy, 132 Leo X., Pope, his designs on Ferrara, 50 Letters, difficulty of sending from Germany to Italy, 156 L'Humore of Bologna, anecdote of, 17 Lintz, Chair of Medicine there offered to GrÜnthler, 165 Literature, safe, princes who patronise, 397 Lucia Tolomelli, the maid in the Sirani family, 374 her troubles with her mistress, 375 her escapade with the tinker, 376 imprisoned in the poor–house, 377 her fairings, suspected of poisoning E. Sirani, 383 grounds of suspicion, 384 claimed by the church, 385 her second arrest and examination, her defence, 386 her exile, 387 Lucrezia Borgia, her marriage, 37, 42 her previous character, 38 defended by Roscoe, 39 moral phenomenon, 41 entry into Ferrara, 46 evening of her life and death, 51 contrasted with Duchess RenÉe, 59 M. Macchiavelli, his comedy "Mandragola,"210 Malvasia, his history of E. Sirani, 391 Marco, St. Piazza of, in Florence, 225 Casino di, 229 Marot, Clement, at Ferrara, 75 his lines on Duchess RenÉe, 76 comes out of her convent–prison, 321 Martinetti, his history, 335 Material prosperity disclaimed as an object by Catholic writers, 30 Mattaselani, Dr., his evidence respecting E. Sirani's death, 387 Maurice, Elector of Saxony, 170 Medici family, domestic tragedy, 227 Mondragone, Marchesa, arranges meeting of Francesco and Bianca, 229, 230 Montaigne, his description of Bianca Cappello, 226 Morata, Olympia, her birth, 55-60 early promise and beauty, 62 first seeds of Protestant doctrine, 67 her acquirements at thirteen years old, 70 flattered by all Ferrara, 71 becomes an inmate of the Court, 79 her delight at her new position, 82 her earliest compositions, 83 her lecturing at sixteen, 84 specimen of her elocution, 86 verses to her from Giraldi, 88 her Greek verses, 90 her female friendships, 100 early religious indifferentism, and subsequent strong convictions, 103, 107 translations from Boccaccio, 103 her Greek epitaph on Cardinal Bembo, 106 at her father's death–bed, 109 dismissed from the palace, 110 visits Fannio in his prison, 116 commencement of religious convictions, 117 changed circumstances, 119 her lines on virginity, letter to Curione on her time of disgrace, 120 commencement of regeneration, 122 her love, 126 her marriage, separated from her husband, 127 her letter to her husband, 128 detention of her dresses by the Court, 130 dialogue with Lavinia della Rovere, 132 finally leaves Italy, 139 her journey across the Alps, 141 her letter to Giraldi, 146 misgivings as to her classical studies, Curione encourages her, 147 her stay with Hermann, urges Lavinia della Rovere to save Fannio, 148 her stay with John Sinapi, 149 her ideas of a special providence, 150, 174 settles at Schweinfurth, 151 her real name questioned, 152 is an interesting character both to the religionist and the moralist, letter to Curione, 155 sends money to her mother, 156 letter to Lavinia della Rovere, 157 moderation of her Calvinism, her dialogue between Philotima and Theophila, 159 receives her books from Italy, 160 receives Theodora Sinapi, 161 lectures a backsliding divine, 165 tends her husband in his sickness, 174 her letter during the siege to Lavinia della Rovere, 174 letter to her sister describing her flight from Schweinfurth, 176 miserable journey to Erbach, 178 her health destroyed, 179 at Hirschhorn, 183 is offered a chair of Greek at Heidelberg, 184 receives letter and books from Curione, 187 ignorance of German, 190 declines to be at the Court of the Electress of Heidelberg, 192 receives Theodora Sinapi at Heidelberg, 192 theology of her letters, 193 her desire for death, 194 her last letter to Curione, 196 her last moments, 197 her epitaph, 198 her European reputation, 199 the basis of it, 200 value of her story to us, 203 Morato, Peregrino, fixes himself at Ferrara, 55 his Protestantism, 60 his criticism on Bembo, 61 his exile, 63 his training of his daughter, 64 his difficulties, returns to Ferrara, 70 appointed tutor to the Duke's sons, his instructions to his daughter, 85 O. Ori, Matthew, inquisitor, 113 "Oricellari Orti," their history, 274 given to Bianca Cappello, 275 a night's amusement there, 276 P. Paganism of Italian society in the sixteenth century, 3 Palazzo Vecchio at Florence, chapel in, 292 Pallavicini, Princess, La Corilla's patroness, 395 Pamfili, Camillo, created cardinal, 353 his gross ignorance, 354 his marriage, 356 succeeds to his mother's wealth, 364 Pamfili, G. Batista, Olympia's husband, 348 Pamfili, Olympia, her birth, 348 her marriage, her ambitious plans, 349 her avarice, 354 her venality, 355 banished from the Vatican, 358 returns, her mode of life in the Vatican, 359 her last simoniacal bargain, 360 her plans after the death of Innocent, 361 makes advances to Alexander VII., 363 banished from Rome, 364 her death, Pedagogues lay, a new social feature in the sixteenth century, 54 their social position, 64 Pellegrina, Bianca's daughter, birth of, 232 Persecution increases, 195 Pestilence in Ferrara, 49 Petrarch, crowned at the Capitol, 394 Philip II. of Spain, odious to the German electors, 169 informed of Francesco's marriage with Bianca, 294 approves of the murder of Donna Eleonora de' Medici, 256 godfather to the Duchess Giovanna's son, 273 Phoenix burning in Ferrara, 51 Picchena, Curzio, envoy employed by Francesco de' Medici as a poisoner, 289 Pietro de' Medici, 228 his character, 239 his marriage, 240 urged to re–marry, 319 stays at Florence to watch Bianca, 321 his letter to the Cardinal, 322 ill–treated by the Duke, 324 his interview with Bianca, 325 his report of it to the Cardinal, 326 Po, river, difficulties connected with, 97 Poetesses, Tiraboschi's list of, 1 Poggio–a–Caiano, ducal villa, 321 the Duke's death there, 332 Bianca's death there, Pratolino, Ducal villa, 314 Progress, moral, proofs of, 42 Psalms translated into Greek by Olympia, and set to music by GrÜnthler, 164 Publishers, eminent, send presents of books to Olympia, 187 Puteano, Ericio, his inscription on Isabella Andreini, 211 R. Rabelais on the Fuggers, 143 RenÉe of France, her marriage with Hercules II., 57 her Protestantism, 59 theological difficulties with her husband, 72 secret reception of Calvin, 72 scene in her closet, 74 in durance, 81 Reno river, difficulties connected with, 98 Respectability, prized by Italians, 238 Riario family is founded, 166 present family, ancestor of, 173 Ricci, Bartolomeo, 56 Ricci, Cassandra de, her murder, 236 Roman history, society, means of rising in, 349 Rosaria, Princess, Camillo Pamfili's wife, 357 Rosarias, Andreas, poor schoolmaster out of employ, 193 Roscoe's defence of Lucrezia Borgia, 39 Rudolph, the Emperor, his reply to the Italian Princes, 310 S. Salviati, Maria, sonnet to, 16 Savoy, Duke of, his claim to pre–eminence over other Italian princes, 309 Scandal in Europe, caused by Olympia Pamfili, 357 Scenery, appreciation of, a modern sentiment, 142 its condition in the sixteenth century, 154 idea of Olympia's home in, 162 siege of, 172 pestilence in, 173 destruction of the city, 176 Serene, title of, squabbles about, 307 Servants, Olympia's troubles with, 188 Sinapi, Chilian, 56 Sinapi, John, 56 letter from, 88 Olympia's letters to, 131 settled at WÜrzburg, 149 receives Olympia in his house, death of his wife, 166 sends Olympia a volume recovered from the sack of Schweinfurth, 186 his letter to Olympia, 187 Sirani, Elisabetta, her artistic merits, 367 story of her death, 368 her home in Bologna, 369 her catalogue of her works, 370 her rapidity of execution, 371 paints before Cosmo of Tuscany, before the Duchess of Brunswick, 372 her disposal of her earnings, 373 frugal life, falls into ill–health, 379 her death, 380 mourning in Bologna for her death, 380 her personal appearance, 391 his conduct to Lucia Tolomelli, 377 withdraws his accusation against Lucia, 387 Sirani, Anna Maria, Elisabetta's sister, 369 Sirani, Barbara, Elisabetta's sister, 369 is ill with fever, 379 Sirani, Margherita, Elisabetta's mother, 375 Soderini, Giovanni Vettorio, his extraordinary letter, 336 Strozzi, Filippo, his character, 11 his connection with Tullia d'Aragona, 12 Strozzi, Matteo, envoy to Venice, 295 Squadrone volante, in the Conclave, 362 T. Tagliavia, Peter, at Trent, 5 his reminiscences, 6 educates his daughter, 8 Tasso crowned at the Capitol, 394 Terence, Adelphi of, performed before Paul III. at Ferrara, 95 Theodore, daughter of John Sinapi, a pupil of Olympia, 161 Theology, Olympia's, 193 Theriaca medicine, 380 Tiepolo, Antonio, envoy from Venice to Florence, 297 Tiraboschi, his notion of comedy, 208 Torelli, Lelio, his murder, 247 Toselli, Mazzoni, his pamphlet on E. Sirani, 369 Tragedy, Italian, in the sixteenth century, 207 Treuthuger, the schoolmaster at Hirschhorn, 183 Troilo, Orsini, 247 Tullia d'Aragona, her birth, and early talents, 8 difficulties of dates respecting her, 10 her beauty, 14 her husband, 15 scene at her house, 17 leaves Rome, 18 specimen of her poetry, 19 quits "La BohÈme," 22 her translation of Guerrino el Meschino, her opinion of Boccaccio, 24 her propriety, 25 her Dialogue on the Infinity of Love, 26 her death, 28 V. Varchi, Bened., a personage in Tullia's "Dialogo,"26 their reply to Bianca's remonstrances, 311 Villach, Charles V. at, 170 Villeggiatura, Italian habit of, 330 THE END. BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. FOOTNOTES: TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES —Plain text and punctuation errors fixed. —Cover image produced by transcriber and placed in public domain. |
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