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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:
to be avoided, 35, 83;
instances of:
in oratory, 35;
in dancing, 36;
in attire, 36;
in riding, 37;
in boasting, 37;
in music, 37;
in painting, 37;
in speech, 38;
in preferring to practise that in which one does not most excel,
117
“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
Ludovico, 320, 336, 345
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:
spoken with excessive care by Theophrastus, 5;
not rigidly adhered to by excellent Greek authors, 47
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
Domenico Maria, 383
Ludovico, 383
_Becco_, a he-goat, 129, 363
Beggar and lady at church, story of, 125
Belcolore (a character in Boccaccio), 127
Bellini, the, 343
Gentile, 341
Giacopo, 341
Giovanni, 341
Niccolosa, 341
Belvedere, a pavilion in the Vatican Gardens, 274
Bembo, Bernardo, 330
Pietro, 12, 18, 60, 61, 104, 106, 121, 130, 244, 255, 259-60, 287,
288-307, 308, 319, 320, 321, 330-1, 332, 333, 334, 336, 340, 342,
343, 345, 348, 358, 359, 362, 363, 364, 367, 368, 369, 374, 379,
380, 383, 403, 407, 415
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
Filippo, the younger, 139, 319, 352, 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
Decameron, 127, 161, 384
Bohemia, Ladislas II of, 397
Boisy, Sieur de, 346
Bologna: subdued by Julius II, 12;
mentioned as full of turmoil, 139;
the Archbishop of,—see Pavia, the Cardinal of
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 313
Bonfons, Nicholas, 420, 421
Boniface, Duke of Tuscany, 394
Borgia, Cardinal Francesco, 156, 382
Cesare, (“Duke Valentino”), 147, 313, 318, 325, 328, 329, 331, 341,
343, 376, 377, 378
Giovanni, 377
Juana (or Isabella), 328
Lucrezia, 322, 328, 330, 359, 363, 373, 377, 399
Roderigo Lenzuoli,—see Alexander VI
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
Mary of, 395, 396, 413
Philip the Good, Duke of, 387
the order (of the Golden Fleece) at the court of, 173, 387
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
Count Ludovico da, Bishop of Bayeux, 12, 20-72, 121, 138, 176, 202,
233, 236, 237, 244, 279, 292, 293, 297, 329, 332, 342, 346, 360,
361, 394, 407
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:
referred to in the prayer for heretics and schismatics, 138;
Raphael’s retort to the two, 149, 377-8
Cardona, Don Giovanni di, 146, 375, 376
Don Pedro di, Count of Gosilano, 375
Don Ugo di, 147, 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
the Countess of, 164, 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
Ippolita, 314
Tealdo, Archbishop of Milan, 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
the Marquess Gerardino di, 71, 351
the Marquess Giovanni di, 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:
discussions concerning, 162-3, 208-9;
instances of, 211 et seq.
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
_De Amicitia_, 358
_De Officiis_, 402
_De Oratore_, 324, 344, 408
_De Senectute_, 397
_Pro Archia_, 34
Cicero, the Christian, (Lactantius Firmianus), 392
Ciminelli, Serafino,—see Serafino dall’Aquila
Cimon, 250, 407-8
Circe, 272, 409
Circumspection:
necessary to the courtier, 59;
even more necessary to the court lady, 176
Cithern:
played by Socrates, 63;
Achilles taught by Chiron to play upon the, 64
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
Fabrizio, 319
Francesco, his _Hypnerotomachia Poliphili_, 405
Marcantonio, 140, 371
Pierantonio, 371
Vittoria, Marchioness of Pescara, 1, 319-20, 323, 324, 369, 371, 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:
of art, 35;
the courtier need not conceal his good deeds, 84
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;
reasons for hasty publication of, 1;
“a picture of the court of Urbino,” 2;
excuse for not writing in the Tuscan dialect, 3-5;
purports to record actual dialogues, 8;
when written, 319
Courtiers’ duty to entice their prince towards virtue, 250-1
Courtiership:
the subject of the book, 7;
beginning of the discussion concerning the perfection of, 19;
beginning of the discussion concerning the proper aims of, 246;
explanation of the word, 325
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:
affectation in, 36;
how to be practised, 86-7
Dante, 323, 330, 339, 340, 363, 381
Dante’s _Divina Commedia_, 323
_Inferno_, 360
_Paradiso_, 416
_Purgatorio_, 376
_Vita Nuova_, 348
_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:
on literary style, 38-54;
on pleasantries and witticism, 120-162;
on the attributes of the perfect court lady, 175-228;
on Platonic love, 288-307
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:
the courtier’s, 102-4;
an index of character, 103-5;
the court lady’s, 179-80
Ducats:
as a laudatory simile, 140-1;
story of the prior who had borrowed ten thousand, 150-1
Duchess of Urbino, the,—see Gonzaga, Eleanora and Elisabetta
Duel:
the courtier to know how to conduct a, 30;
story about a, 152
_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:
the correlative and necessary accompaniment of good, 78;
ignorance is the root of, 254-6
Exalted station attained by several members of the court of Urbino, 244
Exercises:
those proper for the courtier, 29-31;
those inappropriate for the courtier, 31
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:
referred to as “the king,” 148, 164;
mentioned, 202, 203, 219, 313, 327, 359, 368, 371, 377, 396, 397,
400, 412, 413
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:
amusing story illustrating the importance of, 111-2;
the courtier to try to make a good, 113
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:
affected by some, 102;
tends to over amplitude, 103
Frenchmen:
martial exercises excelled in by, 30-1;
said to disprize letters, 56;
whether or not they are presumptuous, 97;
their freedom of manner, 115
Friar and the five nuns, story of the, 136-7
Friars, hypocrisy of the, 188-9
Friends:
choice of, 105-7;
peril of too blind confidence in, 106;
reciprocal duties of, 107
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:
affected by some, 102;
tends to over scantiness, 103
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
Latino, de’ Manetti, 151, 379
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:
cannot be learned, but may be cultivated, 34;
lies chiefly in the avoidance of affectation, 35
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:
Hannibal said to have written in, 58;
the courtier to be conversant with, 59;
Castiglione prefers that his son should devote less attention to
Latin than to, 347
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:
as to confessing, 116-7;
one of the gravest faults of princes, 247;
the root of evil, 254-6
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
Tommaso, (“Fedra”), 138, 367, 375
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:
referred to as “the queen,” 150;
mentioned, 156, 202-4, 219, 377, 378, 384, 396-7, 412, 413
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:
martial exercises in which they excelled, 30;
military decadence of, 58-9, 347;
lamentable lack of any style of dress peculiar to, 103;
become a prey to other nations, 103, 347
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
Caterina, 334
Count Marcantonio, 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:
the source of Italian, 43;
the courtier to be conversant with, 59;
Castiglione prefers that his son should devote more attention to
Greek than to, 347
Latinistic forms of several Italian words advocated, 48, 54, 340
Latino Giovenale de’ Manetti, 151, 379
Lat_r_in tongue, 136
Lattanzio da Bergamo, 376
Laughter:
peculiar to man, 123;
incongruity affirmed to be its source, 124
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
his _Codex Atlanticus_, 360
his “Treatise on Painting,” 350
Leonico Tomeo, Niccolò, 145, 374
Letters:
the true ornament of the mind, 56;
disprized by the French at the beginning of the 16th century, 56;
but esteemed by the youthful Francis (I), 56-7;
and by captains of ancient times, 57-8;
the true conservator of glory, 58;
letters vs. arms, discussed, 60-2
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:
hasty publication of THE COURTIER arose from dread of, 1;
frequency of, 320
Literary style, discussion of, 3-5, 38-54
Literary usage:
how determined, 48;
subject to change, 48-9
Livy (Titus Livius), 47, 326, 340, 358, 375, 391
Lombard, the author admits writing as a, 5
Lombards:
addicted to the use of foreign words, 38;
fond of fantastic dress, 104
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
_Discorsi_, 356
_Principe_, 347, 377
_Storia Fiorentina_, 378
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
Ludovico, 162, 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
the Dukes of,—see Sforza and Visconti
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:
retort of a spendthrift to a, 139;
story of a servant who had saved the life of his miserly master,
144-5
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:
quotation from his _Essais_, 347;
the village of Paglia mentioned in his diary, 382
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:
story of a Pisan merchant captured and rescued from the, 195-7;
to be conquered for their souls’ good, 275
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
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