Chapter XXXVI: Appendix: III (7)

Vinci, Lionardo da, universality of his genius, 171, 326, ii. 10,
iii. 313, 314, 322, 327 _note_ 1, 382;
the only great Florentine artist not befriended with the Medici,
iii. 263;
one of the four great artists by whom the Renaissance was fully
expressed, 312;
his studies of beauty and ugliness, 316-318;
his interest in psychological problems, 318 (cp. 35), 323, 363;
his study of the technicalities of art, 320;
his love of strange things, 321;
hisstrong personality, 322 _note_ 3, 329;
his reluctance to finish, 323, 482;
greatness of his aims, 325;
his _S. John_, as illustrating the introduction of Pagan motives
into Christian art, 34, 137, 318;
indebted for the type of face preferred by him to Verocchio, 142, 316;
his models for an equestrian statue of Francesco Sforza, 144, 324, 325;
his _Leda and the Swan_, illustrating his treatment of the antique,
291, 318;
fate of his works, 325;
the cartoon for the Council Chamber at Florence, 325, 396;
the _Last Supper_, 323, 326;
Lionardo's visit to the Court of France, 445;
school formed by him at Milan, 482;
his Treatise on Physical Proportions, ii. 37;
his Poems, iii. 314;
translation of a sonnet, 314 _note_ 1

Vinciguerra, Antonio, his satirical poems, v. 381

Vindelino of Spires, joins his brother John as printer at Venice, ii. 369

Violi, Lorenzo, his notes of Savonarola's sermons, i. 511, 530 _note_ 1

Virago, used without reproach at the time of the Renaissance as a
term for accomplished ladies, v. 288

Virgil, read in the middle ages, i. 20;
honours paid to him at Mantua, 20, ii. 30, 63;
translation of a stanza from a hymn on Virgil used at Mantua, 63;
turned by popular belief into a magician, a Christian, a prophet
of Christ, 65, 143;
influence of the Eclogues in forming the ideal of a Golden Age
prevalent at the Renaissance, v. 195;
his tomb at Naples, i. 461, ii. 30, iv. 12, 88, 101

_Viridario_, the, an Academy at Bologna, ii. 366

_Virtu_, Machiavelli's use of the word, i. 171, 337 _note_ 1, 345,
482, 484, 493, ii. 35, v. 440;
illustrated by Benvenuto Cellini, iii. 439, 479;
by Aretino, iv. 497, v. 410, 416, 425

_Virtu, Le_, the Vitruvian Club at Rome, ii. 366, v. 227

Visconti, the, i. 81, 116;
quarrel of the Visconti with Florence, 81, 82;
how they acquired their power, 112;
their patronage of art, iii. 42

---- Azzo, i. 133, 134;
his impartiality, 83 _note_ 1;
Bernabo, 136, 139, 140, 141;
Carlo, one of the assassins of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, 165;
Filippo Maria, was afraid of thunder, 119, 152;
imprisons Giovanni Vignate in a wooden cage, 120;
seizes Pavia, 151;
has his wife beheaded, 152 _note_ 2;
his character, 153, ii. 265;
his conduct to Alfonso the Magnanimous, i. 568 _note_ 1;
his patronage of Filelfo, ii. 265, 277;
commissions Filelfo to write an Italian poem on S. John the
Baptist, 279, iv. 235;
Gabriello, i. 102, 151;
Galeazzo (1), 133;
Galeazzo (2), 134, 136-140;
Gian Galeazzo, 87, 98, 102, 113 _note_ 1, 138;
his marriage, 138;
succeeds, 140;
murders his uncle, 141;
his love of art, 141;
the grandeur of his schemes, 141;
his wealth, 143;
his character, 144;
his plots against the D'Este Family and the Gonzaghi, 146, 147;
transfers Asti to the House of Orleans, 143 _note_ 1, v. 333;
progress of his conquests, 149;
dies of the plague, 149, iv. 162;
his plan to make himself King of Italy, iv. 161;
his saying on the injury caused him by Salutato's literary
powers, ii. 104;
Giovanni, Archbishop of Milan, i. 135, 136;
Giovanni Maria, 151;
his cruelty and lust, 151, 478;
murdered, 152, 397 _note_ 2;
Lucchino, 134;
Matteo, 136;
Otho, Archbishop of Milan, causes the downfall of the Della Torre
family, 132;
Stefano, 136;
Valentina, her marriage to Louis d'Orleans, 143 _note_ 1, 154 _note_ 1;
Violante, her marriage to the Duke of Clarence, 137 _note_ 2

Viscounts, creation of the title, i. 53

Vistarini family, the, their murder by Fisiraga, i. 120;
massacre by Tremacoldo, 148 _note_ 1

Vitelleschi, Cardinal dei, his slaughter of the Trinci, i. 122;
attacked by Valla in the treatise on _Constantine's Donation_, ii. 260

Vitelli, the, of Citta di Castello, their rise to power, i. 114;
members of this family become Condottieri, 161

---- Vitelozzo, i. 351;
murdered by Cesare Borgia at Sinigaglia, 351, 352, 462

Viterbo, pageants at, in 1462, on the Corpus Christi festival, iv. 316

Vitoni, Ventura, his Church of the Umilta at Pistoja, iii. 83

Vitruvius, his influence on Italian architects, ii. 436, iii. 94 _note_ 1

Vivarini, the, the first masters of the Venetian School, iii. 361

Volaterranus, Jacobus, his character of Julius II., i. 389 _note_ 3

Volterra, Sack of, i. 176 _note_ 1

---- Duomo, the: its roof, iii. 79 _note_ 4;
Mino da Fiesole's Ciborium, 158 _note_ 1

Walter of Brienne. (_See_ Duke of Athens.)

Webster, the dramatist, quoted, i. 119 _note_ 2, ii. 35, iii. 155;
his 'White Devil of Italy,' i. 557, v. 69, 117, 288;
his treatment of Italian subjects, 68, 117

Wenceslaus, the Emperor, i. 148, 154

Werner of Urslingen, leader of Condottieri, i. 86, 158

William II., of Sicily, beginning of the Sicilian period of Italian
literature at his Court, iv. 21

Wippo, his panegyric to the Emperor Henry III., cited, iv. 4

Witchcraft, Bull of Innocent VIII. against, i. 402 _note_ 1, v. 347;
supposed prevalence of witchcraft in the Valtellina and Val
Camonica, in the sixteenth century, i. 402 _note_ 1, v. 316, 346
_notes_ 1 and 2, 347;
general belief in witchcraft at that period in Italy, 344;
character of the Italian witches, 345;
Teutonic character of witchcraft in the Lombard district, 347

Wolfhard, his Life of S. Walpurgis, cited for medieval contempt of
antiquity, ii. 60

Women, abuse of, common to the authors of the Renaissance, how
explained, iv. 212

Wool trade, the, of Florence, i. 257

Worcester, Earl of, Bruni's translation of Aristotle's _Politics_
originally dedicated to him, ii. 184

Xenophon, the influence of his _Oeconomicus_ on Italian writers, iv. 196

Zanchius, Basilius, his verses upon the death of Navagero, ii. 488

Zane, Paolo, his encouragement of learning at Venice, ii. 212;
sends Guarino to Constantinople, 299

Zeno, the Greek Emperor, i. 46

Zilioli, his account of Doni's life at Monselice, v. 91

_TRANSLATIONS IN VERSE BY AUTHOR._

Alamanni, Triumph of Death, iv. 395

Aretino, Epitaph on, v. 423

Aristotle, Lines on Virtue, iv. 62

Bembo, De Galeso, ii. 483;
a Sonnet, v. 262

Benivieni, Song of Divine Madness, i. 481, iv. 304;
Laud to Jesus, iv. 303;
Passage from an Elegy, 561

Bernard, S., Stanzas from the Passion Hymn, iii. 17

Berni, Sonnet on Clement VII., v. 368;
Confession of Faith from the _Rifacimento_ of _Orlando Innamorato_,
543-547

Boiardo, Sleeping Rinaldo, iv. 471;
Apostrophe of Orlando, 473;
on Friendship, 474;
Discourse of Orlando with Agricane, 475-477;
on Chivalrous Indifference to Wealth, 477;
Rinaldo at Merlin's Well, 482-484;
Tale of Narcissus, 485-487

Buonarroti, Madrigal on Florence, iii. 392;
Quatrain on _La Notte_, 394;
Twenty-three Sonnets, Appendix ii.;
Passage from an Elegy, iv. 561

Campanella, Three Sonnets, v. 481-483

_Canto Carnascialesco_, The Triumph of the Sieve, iv. 392

Della Casa, Six Sonnets, v. 279

Donati, Three Madrigals, iv. 531

Folengo, Two Stanzas from the _Orlandino_, v. 320 _note_ 2;
Berta's Prayer from ditto, 356;
Rainero's Discourse on Monks from ditto, 537-540;
Rainero's Confession of Faith from ditto, 541-543

Folgore da San Gemignano, Ten Sonnets, iv. 526-530

Guidiccioni, A Sonnet, v. 282

Ibycus, On Peace, iv. 52

Jacopone, Fra, _Presepio_, iv. 532-534;
_Corrotto_, 535-538;
Stanzas from the Hymn of Love, 539-542

Machiavelli, Epigram on Soderini, i. 297

Medici, Lorenzo de', Sonnet to Venus, iv. 373;
Sonnet to the Evening Star, 374;
Passages from _Le Selve_, 376-380;
Passage from _Corinto_, 377;
Song of Baccus and Ariadne, 390

Molza, Five Stanzas from the _Ninfa Tiberina_, v. 231-233

Poliziano, Pantheistic Hymn, ii. 24;
_Ballata_ of Roses, iv. 378;
Golden Age, 408;
Chorus of Maenads, 414;
Passages from the _Canzoni_ and _Giostra_, 420

Popular Songs, Four, iv. 264-266

Pulci, Character of Margutte, iv. 543, 549;
Discourses of Astarotte, 549-556;
Description of the Storm at Saragossa, 557;
Autobiographical Stanza, 558;
Death of Baldwin, 559

_Sacre Rappresentazioni_, _S. Uliva_: Dirge for Narcissus, iv. 328;
May Song 329;
_S. Maddalena_: Christ's Sermon, 333-336

Sannazzaro, Sonnet on Jealousy, v. 200;
Sestine from the _Arcadia_, 212

Sappho, On Fame, ii. 41

Vinci, Lionardo da, Sonnet, iii. 314

Virgil, Stanza from the Hymn on, ii. 63

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