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Castiglione, Baldassare, his _Cortegiano_, 178-180

Cavalcanti, Guido, 17, 18

Cavalieri, Tommaso de’, 197

Cavallotti, Felice, 407, 408

Cayley, C. B., on Petrarch’s _Canzoniere_, 66, 67

Cellini, Benvenuto, his autobiography, 177, 178

Cerlone, Francesco, 307

Charles V., Caro’s sonnet upon, 192

Chaucer, 61, 90, 91, 98

Chiabrera, Gabriello, 276-279, 397

Chiari, Abate, 308

Chiarini, Giuseppe, 411

Chrysoloras, Emanuel, 111

Cielo dal Carno, 7

Cino da Pistoia, 18-20

Cinthio, Giovanni Battista Giraldi, 219, 229

Ciriaco di Ancona, 105

Clement VI., Pope, 58, 69

Clement VII., Pope, 158

Clement VIII., Pope, 246, 257

Clerke, Miss Ellen, translations by, 93, 117, 135, 148, 250, 347

Clough, quoted, 331

Coleridge, S. T., 35, 61, 62, 361, 390

Colletta, Pietro, 380, 381

Colonna, Cardinal, patron of Petrarch, 55, 59

Colonna, Francesco, 108

Colonna, Vittoria, her sonnet to Bembo, 191;
poems on her husband, 194;
Michael Angelo’s attachment to her, 197

_Commedia dell’arte_, 305, 306

Compagni, Dino, chronicle attributed to, 27, 103, 104

Comparetti, Domenico, 411, 413

Conti, Giusto de’, 101

_Convito, Il_, 34

Coppetta, Francesco, 203, 204

Coronal of Sonnets, Tasso’s, 255

_Cortegiano, Il_, 178-180

Cosmo de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 166

Cossa, Pietro, 391, 392

Costanzo, Angelo di, his history of Naples, 176;
his poems, 193, 194

Courthope, W. J., 146

Crescimbeni, Giovanni Mario, 294, 298

Dacre, Lady, translation from Pulci by, 130

Dante Alighieri, biography, 24-31;
_Vita Nuova_, 31-34;
_Convito_, 34-36;
_De Monarchia_, 36, 37;
_Divina Commedia_, 40-52;
Petrarch upon him, 63, 77;
Boccaccio upon him, 93, 96

Davila, Enrico Caterino, 268

_Decamerone, Il_, 88-90

_De Monarchia_, 36, 37

Denina, Carlo, 296

_De Vulgari Eloquio_, 36

_Discorsi sopra Tito Livio_, 161

_Divina Commedia, La_, 40-52

Este, house of, 141, 144

Farini, Luigi Carlo, 383

Farini, Salvatore, 409

Ferrari, Giuseppe, 379

Fiamma, Gabriele, 198

Fiammetta, Boccaccio’s _innamorata_, 83

_Fiammetta, La_, 86-88

Filangieri, Gaetano, 293

Filicaja, Vincenzo, 283-285

_Filocopo, Il_, 85, 86

_Filostrato, Il_, 91, 92

Firenzuola, Agnolo, 182, 217

Fogazzaro, Antonio, 408, 409

Folengo, Teofilo, 207

Folgore di San Geminiano, 20

Fortiguerri, Niccoló, 210

Foscolo, Ugo, life and works, 337-341

Francis of Assisi, St., 16

Frederick II., Emperor of Germany, 6, 7

Frezzi, Frederico, 100

Galiani, Ferdinando, 294

Galileo, 259

Gallina, Giacinto, 408

Gelli, Giovanni Battista, 181

Gemma Donati, Dante’s wife, 28, 29

Genovesi, Antonio, 294

Gentili, Alberico, 266

_Gerusalemme Liberata, La_, 246-253

Giannone, Pietro, 291, 292

Gil Vicente, 225

Ginguené, 77, 143

Gioberti, Vincenzo, 370, 371, 377, 378

Giordani, Pietro, 369, 370

_Giorno, Il_, 299

_Giostra, La_, 117

Giovanni Fiorentino, 102, 215, 216

Giovio, Paolo, 172

Giusti, Giuseppe, 365-368

Giustiniani, Leonardo, 102

Glassford, James, translation from Sannazaro by, 187

Goethe, on _I Promessi Sposi_, 348

Goldoni, Carlo, controversy with Gozzi, 308;
life, 321-323;
comedies, 323, 324

Gosse, Edmund, translation of a sonnet of Redi by, 282

Gozzi, Carlo, life and dramatic writings, 307-309

Gozzi, Gaspare, 297

Graf, Arturo, 408

Gravina, Vincenzo, 298, 310

Grazzini, Antonio Maria, 219

Greene, G. A., translation from D’Annunzio, 405;
his _Italian Lyrists of To-Day_, 408

Grossi, Tommaso, 349

Guarini, Giovanni Battista, _Pastor Fido_, 234-236

Gubernatis, Angelo de, 411

Guerrazzi, Francesco Domenico, 391

Guerrini, Olindo, 407

Guerzoni, Giuseppe, 411

Guicciardini, Francesco, his life, 164-166;
history of his times, 166, 167;
miscellaneous writings, 168, 169

Guidi, Alessandro, 285

Guidiccioni, Guido, 191, 192

Guinicelli, Guido, 15

Guittone di Arezzo, 13, 14

Homeric epic, probable genesis of, 154, 155

Howells, W. H., translation from Giusti by, 367

Hunt, Leigh, translations by, 78, 205, 235;
on Pulci, 130;
on Tasso’s _Aminta_, 233

_Hypnerotomachia Poliphili_, 108

Ippolito d’Este, Cardinal of Ferrara, 141

Jacopino de’ Todi, 21

Jacopo da Lentino, 8

_Jacopo Ortis_, 338, 339

Lanzi, Luigi, 296

Latini, Brunetto, 21, 22

Laura, Petrarch’s _innamorata_, 55, 67-73

Lee, Vernon [Miss Violet Paget], 280, 297, 307, 309, 392

Leo X., Pope, 142, 158, 165, 175

Leonora d’Este, sister of the Duke of Ferrara, 241

Leopardi, Giacomo, his commentary on Petrarch, 81;
his _Paralipomeni_, 210;
biography, 354-357;
as philosopher, 357, 358;
as poet, 359-362;
his prose works, 362, 363;
as moralist, 363, 364

Leti, Gregorio, 269, 270

Lippi, Lorenzo, 209

Lorenzo de’ Medici, his poetry and patronage of literature,
113-116

Luigi d’Este, Cardinal of Ferrara, 240

Macgregor, Major, translation from Petrarch by, 58

Machiavelli, Niccoló, his life, 157-159;
his _Prince_, 159-161;
_Discourses on Livy’s Decades_, 161;
_History of Florence_, 162, 163;
his poems, 203;
his comedies, 231

Maffei, Scipione, Marquis, 295, 315

Magno, Celio, 198

Mamiani, Terenzio, 379

_Mandragola, La_, 231

Manzoni, Alessandro, life and character, 342-344;
lyrical poetry, 345;
dramas, 346;
_I Promessi Sposi_, 348, 349

Marini, Giovanni Battista, 273-275

Marini, Giuseppe Ambrogio, 287

Marradi, Giovanni, 408

Massuccio Salernitano, 216

Mazzini, Giuseppe, 370-374

Mazzuchelli, Giovanni Maria, 295

Meli, Giovanni, 301, 302

Menzini, Benedetto, 285

_Merope_, 315

Mestica, Giovanni, commentator on Petrarch, 74, 80, 379

Metastasio, Pietro, biography, 310-312;
works and literary characteristics, 312-315

Micali, Giuseppe, 382

Michael Angelo, as a poet, 197

_Mie Prigioni, Le_, 351

Milton, compared with Dante, 49, 50;
indebtedness to Sannazaro, 187;
study of Italian models, 199;
on the decay of Italian literature in
his time, 238;
influence of Tasso on his versification, 245;
compared with Tasso, 248, 249

Molière, 323, 324

Molza, Francesco Maria, 189, 190

_Mondo Creato, Il_, 245

Montanelli, Giuseppe, 384

Montemagno, Bonaccorso da, 102

Monti, Vincenzo, life and works, 333-337;
a reviver of Dante, 344

_Morgante Maggiore, Il_, 128-131

Muratori, Lodovico Antonio, 295

Napoleon, the true founder of Italian unity, 353

Nardi, Jacopo, 172

Navagero, Andrea, 172

Negri, Ada, 408

Nencioni, Enrico, 411

Niccolini, Giovanni Battista, 350

Nicholas V., Pope, 112

Niebuhr, 376

Nievo, Ippolito, 391

Nolhac, Pierre de, _Pétrarque et l’Humanisme_, 65

_Novellino, Il_, 85

Ojetti, Ugo, 325, 412

Ongaro, Francesco dall’, 387

Opera, the, 313, 314

Ophelia, 124

_Orfeo_, 233

_Orlando Furioso_, 143-151

_Orlando Innamorato_, 132-138

Ottonieri, Filippo, pseudonym of Leopardi, 364

Ovid, 145

Pallavicino, Cardinal Sforza, 267, 268

Palmieri, Matteo, 101

Panizzi, Antonio, 11, 129, 130, 138, 139, 143

Panzacchi, Enrico, 408

Parini, Giuseppe, 299-301

Paruta, Pietro, 174, 175

Pascoli, Giuseppe, 408

_Pastor Fido, Il_, 234, 235

Paterno, Lodovico, 203

Patmore, Coventry, 97, 148, 403

Paul III., Pope, 175, 237

Paul V., Pope, 267

Petrarca, Francesco, biography, 53-61;
his Latin poetry, 61-63;
other Latin writings, 63, 64;
epistles, 64, 65;
classical scholarship, 65;
his passion for Laura, 66-73;
his _Canzoniere_, 73-79;
his character, 79, 80

Pellico, Silvio, 351

Piccolomini, Alessandro, 181

Pindemonte, Ippolito, his sonnet on Petrarch’s Laura, 72;
his life and writings, 341, 342

Pius II., Pope [Enea Silvio Piccolomini], 105

Pius IV., Pope, 237

Placci, Carlo, 409

Pletho, Gemistus, 111

Poliziano, Angelo, his poetry and scholarship, 116-119;
his _Orfeo_, 227, 233

Polo, Marco, 105

Pontano, Giovanni, 107, 108

Porto, Luigi da, 217

Prati, Giovanni, 387, 388

_Principe, Il_, 158-161

_Promessi Sposi, I_, 348, 349

Provençal literature, 4-6

Pulci, Luca, 121

Pulci, Luigi, his _Morgante Maggiore_, 128-131

Ranieri, Antonio, 356

Rapisardi, Mario, 408

_Rappresentazione Sacra_, 226

_Reali di Francia, I_, 128

Redi, Francesco, 281, 282

Reeve, Henry, 81

Ridella, Franco, 357

Romagnosi, Giovanni Domenico, 378

Rosa, Salvator, 286

Roscoe, William, 189, 196

Rosmini-Serbati, Antonio, 378

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, translations by, 7, 8, 9, 15, 19, 20, 22,
34, 95, 100, 102

Rossetti, Gabriel, 386, 387

Rossi, J. V. [Nicius Erythræus], 269, 277, 287

Rousseau, 329

Rucellai, Giovanni, 202

Sabadino degli Arienti, 217

Sacchetti, Franco, 102, 214, 215

Sade, Abbé de, his theory respecting Petrarch’s Laura, 68-71

Sannazaro, Jacopo, his life, 122;
his _Arcadia_, 123, 124;
his Latin and Italian poetry, 187

Sarpi, Pietro, 267, 268

Savonarola, Girolamo, 121

_Secchia Rapita, La_, 208, 209

Senuccio del Bene, 101

_Sepolcri, I_, 339

Serao, Matilda, 409

Settembrini, Luigi, 124, 219, 243, 274, 344

Sewall, Frank, translation from Carducci, 401

Shakespeare, _Othello_, 219;
_Measure for Measure_, 219, 229;
_Timon of Athens_, 230;
sonnets, 255

Shelley, 17, 27, 35, 41, 144, 360

Sicilian octave, the, 10

Sidney, Sir Philip, 124, 262

Sixtus V., Pope, 270

Solerti, 243

_Song of Roland_, 128

Sonnet, the, 9, 284

Spenser, 134, 146, 329, 403

Speroni, Sperone, 229

Staël, Madame de, her _Corinne_, 333, 354

Stampa, Gaspara, 195

Stigliani, Tommaso, 275

Straparola, his _Notti Piacevoli_, 220

Swinburne, quoted, 373

Symonds, J. A., cited, 26, 44, 48, 106, 118, 190, 197, 232,
234, 260, 309, 323, 414; translations by, 120, 265

Tansillo, Luigi, his life and poems, 195-197

Tasso, Bernardo, his _Amadigi_, 152;
his sonnets, 191;
his misfortunes, 239

Tasso, Torquato, his _Rinaldo_, 152;
_Torrismondo_, 229;
_Aminta_, 233, 234;
his life, 238-246;
_Jerusalem Delivered_, 246-254;
minor poems, 254, 255;
his dialogues, 266;
his sonnet to Stigliani, 275;
his patriotic feeling, 352

Tassoni, Alessandro, 208, 209

Telesio, Bernardo, 260

_Teseide, La_, 91, 92

Testa, Giovanni Battista, 381

Testi, Fulvio, 279, 280

Tiraboschi, Girolamo, 295, 296

Tomlinson, C., 81

Tommaseo, Niccoló, 384, 385

Trissino, Giovanni Giorgio, his _Italia Liberata_, 153, 154;
his _Sophonisba_,228

Troya, Carlo, 382, 383

Turpin, Archbishop of Rheims, 127

Uberti, Fazio degli, 99, 100

Valla, Lorenzo, 111

Valle, Pietro della, 271

Vanini, Giulio Cesare, 265

Varchi, Benedetto, 172

Vasari, Giorgio, his lives of Italian artists, 176, 177

Verga, Giovanni, 410

Verri, Alessandro, 303

Vico, Giovanni Battista, 290, 291

Villani, Giovanni, 104

Villari, Pasquale, on Guicciardini, 167, 168;
his writings, 411

_Vita Nuova, La_, 32-34

Wells, C., 215

Whitman, Walt, and Carducci, 401

Wordsworth, 200, 277, 402

Zanella, Giacomo, 389-391

Zappi, Faustina, 299

Zappi, Felice, 298

Zeno, Apostolo, 310

Zuccoli, Luciano, 409

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