N.
Naharro, Bartolomé Torres, one ofthe earliest Spanish dramatists,III.97. Mentioned by the editorof Cervantes' comedies, as thereal inventor of the Spanishdrama,98. His reforms in theSpanish theatricals,99.Navagero, Andrea, III.39.Nasi, Alessandro, I.287.Negrete, doctor Juan de, III.226.Neri, I.18.Noronha, dom Alfonso de, III.309.Nozzolini, Ptolemy, II.28.
O.
Obizzo III., marquis of Este, I.196.Oliva, Perez de, one of the earliestSpanish dramatists, III.96.Orsino, Paolo, I.246.
P.
Pacheco, Francisco, the celebratedpainter, III.148.Pachione, Philippo. I.227.Pajares, Alonso Diaz, III.122.Panizzi, Dr., I.168.Pastrengo, William da, I.84.Paul II., pope, I.180.Pedrosa, Luis, III.138.Pellicer, don Juan Antonio, III.121.Pellicer, don Joseph, III.202.Pepoli, Geronimo, II.71.Perticari, count, II.336.Perugini, Paolo, I.120.Petracco, Pietro, I.23.Petrarch, Francesco, his birth andparentage, I.61.His early life,62.Sent to study at the universityof Montpellier,63.Sent toBologna; makes considerableprogress in the study of the law,64.Recalled to France by thedeath of his father,64.Abandonsthe law, and devotes himself tothe clerical profession,65.Hissedulous attention to dress,65.Becomes the favourite and companionof the ecclesiastical andlay nobles who form the papalcourt,65.Commencement of hisfriendship with Giacomo Colonna,66.His description ofColonna,67.His character,67.His first meeting with Laura deSide,68.Endeavours to mergethe living passion of his soul intothe airy and unsubstantial devotionof Platonic attachment,70.His poetic life dated from thetime of his attachment to Laura,71.His predilection for travelling,72.Becomes an inmate inthe house of cardinal Colonna;his unbounded ardour for acquiringknowledge,73.VisitsParis; continues his travelsthrough Aix-la-Chapelle and Cologne,74.Visits Rome; his sensationson entering the eternalcity,75.Leaves Italy, and travelsthrough Spain to Cadiz, andnorthward as far as the sea-coastof England,76.Makes an excursionto Mont Ventoux, one ofthe highest mountains in Europe,76.His letter to father DionisioRobertis, giving an account ofthe expedition,77.Retires toVaucluse,78.His manner of life,79.Extract from a translation ofone of the canzoni, as a specimenof his style,80.Character of hismistress,82.His intimacy withPhilip de Cabassoles, bishop ofCavaillon,83.His letter to GiacomoColonna, on his solicitinghim to go to Rome,84.Receivesletters from the Roman senateand the university of Paris, invitinghim to receive the laurelcrown of poetry; he decides infavour of Rome,85.Repairs toRome, and is crowned in thecapitol with great solemnity, inpresence of all the nobles andhigh-born ladies of the city,86.Returns to Avignon; takes onhimself the office of barrister, andpleads the cause of the Corregio,against their enemies the Rossi,before the pope, and succeeds inobtaining a decision in their favour,87.His grief on hearingof the death of Thomas of Messina:his extraordinary dream,88.Named prior of Migliarino,in the diocese of Pisa,89.Hisunabated love for Laura,90.Applieshimself to Greek, underBernardo Barlaam,91.Writeshis work entitled "The Secret ofFrancesco Petrarca,"91.Sent asambassador to Naples, to establishthe papal claim,92.Writes lettersfull of encouragement toRienzi, the tribune,93.Repairsto his house at Parma; his extraordinarydream,94.His griefon hearing of the death of Laura,95. His record of her death,95.Gives large sums in charity forthe sake of her soul, and causesmany masses to be said for thesame purpose,97.Receives adecree of the Florentine republic,reinstating him in his paternalinheritance, together with lettersinviting him to accept of a professor'schair in their university,99.His letters to pope ClementVI.; again solicited to accept thelace of apostolic secretary, whiche again refuses,100.His treatise"On Solitary Life,"101.Induced by the solicitations ofGiovanni Visconti to remain inMilan,102.His conversationwith the emperor Charles V.,102.Sent to Vienna to negotiate apeace, and afterwards sent toParis to congratulate John,103.His manner of life at Milan,104.His record of the death of hisson; takes up his abode atPadua,105.His writings comparedwith those of Dante,106.His description of Laura's death,107.Continues to interest himselfdeeply in the political state ofhis country,109.His letter toBoccaccio; his congratulatoryletter to Pope Urban V.,110. Isseized with a violent illness onhis way to Rome,111.His treatise,entitled "On my own Ignoranceand that of others,"112.His opinion of the "Decameron"of Boccaccio,113.His death,114.His will,114.Peraga, Bonaventura da, I.114.Petroni, Pietro, I.139.Pickler, Giovanni, II.314.Pietro, Francesco Santo, III.127.Pignoria, Lorenzo, II.13.Pineda, don Juan de, III.108.Pio, prince of Savoy, II.193.Pistofo, M. Bonaventura, I.230.Pistoia, Cina da, I.64.Pletho, Gemisthus, I.151.Polenta, Guido Novelio da, lord ofRavenna, I.29.Politian, II.15.Poliziano, Angelo, his birth andparentage, I.162. Review of hiswritings,163. Appointed tutorto the children of Lorenzo de'Medici,164. At the age oftwenty-nine appointed to the professorshipof Greek and Latineloquence in the university ofFlorence,165.His death,167.Porras, doctor Mathias, corregidorof the province of Canta, in Peru,III.213.Porta, Baptista, II.14.Portugal, early poets of, III.288.Pulci, Bernardo, remarks on hisworks, I.167.Pulci, Luca, his works, I.167.Pulci, Luigi, style of his writings,I.168.Extract from his "MorganteMaggiore,"171.Outline ofthe poem,173.
Q.
Quarqualio, Luca, I.159.Querenghi, his letter to cardinalD'Este, giving an account ofGalileo's controversial discussionsat Rome, III.34.Quevedo, don Francisco Gomez de,his birth, parentage, and earlyeducation, III.246. His careerchecked by a circumstance whichmay be considered as fortunate,257. Obliged to fly; takes refugein Italy, and thence, invited bythe viceroy, repairs to Naples,258.Sent by him as his ambassador toMadrid, to recount his exploits,and explain his designs,259. Accusedof joining in the Bedmarconspiracy against Venice,261.Continues to escape the vigilanceof the senate, and makes his escapein the guise of a mendicant,262. His political services,264.His literary productions; his imprisonmentand liberation,265.Several places offered to him, allof which he declines, and giveshimself up to study and philosophy,266. Gives up his churchpreferments, for the sake of marrying,266. His playful yet bitterpoem, alluding to his evil fate,267. Suspected of writing libelsagainst the court, arrested, andimprisoned in a dungeon of theRoyal Casa de San Marcos deLeon,268. His letter, describingthe squalid wretchedness of hisdungeon,269. His memorial tothe count duke Olivarez,270.His death,272. His person andcharacter,272. Critique on hiswritings,273.
R.
Real, Lorenzo, II.56.Renieri, the friend and pupil ofGalileo, II.57.Ribeyro, Bernardim, one of theearliest of the Portuguese poets,III.290.Riccardi, Nicolo, II.41.Ricci, Giuliano, I.312.Ricci, Ostillo, II.3.Riego, the canon, II.391.Rienzi, Nicola di, I.92.Rioja, Francisco de, III.223.Rios, don Vicente de los, III.121.Robert, king of Naples, I.86.Robertis, Father Dionisio, I.77.Robertson, Dr., II.22.Rollo, Paolo, I.238.Romena, count Alessandro da, I.23.Roxas, Fernando de, III.95. Authorof the first genuine Spanish play,96.Rucellai, Cosimo, I.304.Rueda, Lope de, celebrated as anactor and pastoral poet, III.98.Ruiz, Juan, arch-priest of Hita;brief review of his works, III.12.
S.
Salvani, Provenzano, I.24.Salvanorola, I.130.Salvatico, conte Guido, I.28.Salvi, Giulio, III,60.Santillani, the marquess of, remarkson his poems, III.13.Scala, Can' Grande de la, I.27.Scala, Alessandro, II.75.Scheiner, professor of mathematicsat Ingoldstadt, II.25.Schlegel, III.234.Scotus, Duns, I.9.Serram, Antonio, III.324.Serrano, señor Bachiller, III.122.Serraville, Giovanni da, bishop ofFermo, I.8.Settimo, Guido, I.63.Sforza, Caterina, I.262.Sforza, Ippolita, II.75.Signa, Martino da, I.149.Sixtus IV., pope, I.160.Soderini Pietro, I.288.Sotomayor, don Alonzo Lopez deZuniga y, III.157.Spain, early and anonymous poetryof, III.1.Spini Christofano, II.180.Stolberg, Louisa de, countess ofAlbany, II.280.Her attachmentto Alfieri,285.Strada, Giovanni da, I.117.Strozzi, Oberto, I.188.Sylveira, Hector da, III.321.
T.
Talleirand, cardinal, I.100.Tasso, Bernardo, his birth andparentage, II.98.His early lifeand ill-directed love,99.At theage of forty-one, appointed secretaryto Ferrante Sanseverino,prince of Salerno,99.His marriage,100.Commences his poem,entitled "Amadigi,"100.His letterto his sister Afra,101.Summonedaway from the delightfulretirement of Sorrento to join hispatron in the war which hadbroken out between the emperorCharles V. and Francis I.,102.Returns from the army, and enjoysa brief prolongation of hisdomestic quiet,103.Declared arebel, and his estate confiscated,along with the adherents of theduke of Salerno,104.His letterto his daughter,108.Flies fromRome to Ravenna; invited bythe duke of Urbino to Pesara,where he affords a welcome buttemporary asylum from the persecutionof his enemies, and thepressure of indigence,111.Repairsto Venice to publish hiswork entitled "Amadigi,"113.Failure of the poem,119.Placeshis son at Padua to study jurisprudence,122.His interviewwith his son at Mantua,130.His death, in the seventy-sixthyear of his age,131.Tasso, Torquato, review of his life,II.96.His birth,101.Nurserytraditions of,103.His progressin the rudiments of knowledge,under the superintendence of hismother,104.His beautiful andtouching lines on his separationfrom her, when called away fromNaples to join his mother atRome,105.Compared withCowper,106.His religious sentiments,107.Prosecutes hisstudies with indefatigable assiduityat Rome,108.His letterto Vittoria Colonna, on the subjectof his sister's marriage,109.Removes to Bergamo,111.Commencementof his friendship withthe son of the duke d'Urbino,112.Diversities of circumstances,scene, and company,calculated to cherish and confirmall his natural aspirings,114.Remark upon a line of Boileauwhich has done more injury tohis reputation than all the spleneticcriticisms of Sperone,115.Critique on his Writings,116.Studies the works of his greatItalian predecessors,117.Employedby his father in transcribinghis multitudinous poems andletters,118.Sudden and passionateadmiration with which his"Rinaldo" was hailed throughoutItaly,119.Placed at Paduato study jurisprudence,122. Givesup the law, and devotes himselfto philosophy and the Muses,123.His reply to his father's remonstrance,124.The appearance ofhis "Rinaldo" the dawn of anew day in the literature ofhis country,124.All the characteristicsof his peculiar geniusperceptible in the incidents, style,embellishments, and conduct ofthis juvenile essay,126.Repairsto Bologna to pursue his naturalstudies, and indulge in hispoetical passion,127.Expelledfrom Bologna for a literary squib,128.Removes to Padua, wherehe is inrolled member of theAcademy degli Eterei,129.Devotesmuch of his attention tothe works of Aristotle and Plato,129.Remarks on his "Discourseon Heroic Poetry,"130.Nominatedone of the personal attendantsof the duke of Ferrara,131.Arrives at Ferrara, and is receivedinto the service of the duke'sbrother,132.Commencement ofhis acquaintance with the princessesLucretia and Leonora ofEste,133.His description ofhis own emotions during his firstvisit and sojourn at Ferrara,134.Writes an epithalamium on themarriage of the princess Lucretia,136.His attachment to theprincess Leonora,137.Accompaniesthe cardinal Luigi to thecourt of France,138.Personalanecdotes of,139.Accompaniesthe embassy to Rome; his interviewwith the pope,140.Prosecutesthat splendid crusade ofhis Muse the poetical siege ofJerusalem,140.His "Aminta"received with universal admirationthroughout all Italy,142.Illness occasioned by his anxietyabout his "Gerusalemme Liberata,"144.Charged with heresyagainst Aristotle and good tasteon one hand, and on the otherwith heresy against the churchand good morals,145.Escapesfrom his splendid captivity toRome; appointed historiographerto the house of Este,146.Incidentwhich exhibits him notless in the character of a hero thanhe had hitherto figured in that ofthe laureate of poets,147.Growingsymptoms of a mind diseased,148.His strange melancholy,149.Flies secretly to Ferrara to visithis sister at Sorrento,150.Anecdote of,151.Committed toSt. Anne's Hospital as a lunatic;his letter to Scipio Gonzagaduring his confinement,152.Hisrepresentation of the treatmentwhich he experienced during hisconfinement,153.His sonnetsto the cats of the hospital, imploringthem to lend him thelight of their eyes to write by,154.Pursues his studies withunabated ardour and intensity,155.His wild imaginations,156.Liberated at the special intercessionof the prince of Mantua,157.His controversy with theDella Cruscan Academy duringhis imprisonment,158.Remarkablecircumstances of his lastdays,159.Visits Rome,160.His death, in the fifty-first yearof his age,161.His personal andpoetical character,161.Tassoni, Alessandro, his birth, parentage,and early education;studies jurisprudence at Ferrara,II.169.Enters the service ofcardinal Colonna; publishes his"Considerations on various Subjects,"171.Outline of the principalepisode of. "Secchia Rapita,"172.His death, in theseventy-first year of his age,173.Timoneda, III.99.Tiraboschi, I.179.Torella, Damigella, II.76.Tormes, Lazarillo de, III.101.Tornabuoni, Lucrezia, I.167.Torres, Balthazar de, III.133.Torricelli, II.58.Turpin, archbishop, I.169.
U.
Ubaldi, Guido, II.4.Ugo IV., king of Cyprus and Jerusalem,I.144.Urban V., pope, I.145.Urbino, Gentile d', bishop of Arezzo,I.152.Urbino, captain Diego de, III.127.Urbino, donna Isabel de, her marriagewith Lope de Vega, III.199.Her death,200.Usategui, Luis de, III.227.
V.
Vega, Garcilaso de la, his birth andparentage, III.37. His early predilectionfor poetry and music,38. Commences his career ofarms in the war declared againstFrance by Charles V.,39. Incursthe displeasure of theemperor, and is exiled to anisland of the Danube,39. Hisode in commemoration of his imprisonmentcharacteristic of hisdisposition,40. Is recalled, andattends the emperor in his expeditionagainst Tunis; is severelywounded,41. Extract from oneof his elegies to Boscan,42. Appointedby the emperor to commandeleven companies of infantry,in the expedition againstFrance,45. Killed in an engagementat Muy, near Fréjus, inthe thirty-third year of his age,46. His person and character,47. Review of his poetry, 48.Mr. Wiffen's translation of hisode "To the Flower of Gnido,"53.Vega, Lope de, compared withCervantes, III.189. His birthand parentage,190. Early indicationsof talent,191. Anecdotecharacteristic of his vivaciousdisposition,192. His intimacywith the grand inquisitor; entersthe university of Alcala,193.Enters the service of the dukeof Alva,194. Writes the "Arcadia"at the request of theduke of Alva,195. Style andstory of the poem,196. Hismarriage,198. Engaged in aduel, which obliges him to leaveMadrid,199. Returns to Madrid,becomes a soldier, and joins theIn vincible Armada,200. Southey'stranslation of his sonnets,202.Outline of his work entitled"Dorotea,"204. His animateddescription of the setting forth ofthe Armada,208. Writes the"Beauty of Angelica" on thedeck of the San Juan,210. Storyof the poem,211. His extravaganceand prodigality,210. Hisadvice to his son,212. Hisdomestic afflictions,214. Leavesthe gaieties of secular life, andprepares for the priesthood,215Visits Toledo, and takes orders;says his first mass in a Carmelitechurch,216. Becomes a familiarof the Inquisition,216. His risingcharacter as an author,217.His amiable character,217. Riseshigher and higher in the estimationof the public,219. Writes apoem on the death of Maryqueen of Scots, entitled "CoronaTragica," which he dedicates tothe pope,220. Exaggeration withregard to the number of verseswritten by him,221. Anecdoteof,221. His epistles and otherpoems a picture of the tranquillityof his life as he advanced in age,222. His amiable disposition andplacid temper,224. His last illness,225. His death, 226. Hisperson and character,227. Reviewof his writings,228. Analysisof the "Star of Seville,"233.Vella, Antonio de la, III.140.Velser, Mark, II.25.Vettori, Francesco, I.292.Veyga, Luis de, III.324.Viardôt, his exertions to discoverthe yet hidden circumstances ofCervantes' life, III.121.Vicente, Gil, styled the PortuguesePlautus, III.292. Style of hiswritings,293.Villalobos, physician of Charles V.,one of the earliest of the Spanishdramatists, III.96.Vellégas, Estévan Manuel de,named the Anacreon of Spain,III.240. His birth and parentage,240. His death,240. Histranslationof Anacreon,241. Translationof his original Anacreontics,2420.Villena, the Marquis of, so celebratedfor his acquirements innatural and metaphysical knowledge,that he was looked on asa magician, also admired as apoet, III.13.Virgil, Marcellus, I.257.Visconti, Giovanni, I.101.Visconti, Galeazzo, I.103.Vitelli, Vitellozzo, I.266.Viviani, II.68.Voss, Gerard, II.7.
W.
Wachenfels, II.19.Wiffen, Mr., his translation ofGarcilaso de la Vega's poems,III.49. His translation of Luisde Leon's ode on the Moorishinvasion,79.
Z.
Zach, baron, II.22.Zeno, Apostolo, I.168.;II.192.Zenobio, I.117.Zuniga, doña Elena de, her marriagewith Garcilaso de la Vega,III.39.