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Cabassoles, Philip de, bishop of Cavaillon, his intimacy with Petrarch, I. 83.

Cabral, Antonio, III. 324.

Cabral, Fernando Alvares, III. 311.

Cacciaguida, I. 2.

Caccini, his personal attack upon Galileo from the pulpit, II. 31.

Cassalpinus, Andrew, the celebrated botanist, II. 3.

Cæsarini, Virginio, II. 37.

Caffarelli, general, II. 375.

Calderon, don Pedro, his birth, parentage, and early education, III. 279. His fame established as a poet, 280. Enters the military service at the age of five and twenty, 280. Summoned to court by a royal order, for the sake of writing a drama for a palace festival, 281. Quits the army, and becomes a priest, 281. His death and character, 282. Review of his writings, 283.

Calistus II., pope, I. 169.

Caloria, Tommaso, I. 87.

Caluso, the abate, II. 274.

Camara, Ruy Diaz de, III. 327.

Camerlingo, cardinal, II. 163.

Camoens, Vasco Perez de, his birth and parentage, III. 296. Extract from his "Lusiad," 299. Translation of a sonnet in commemoration of that attachment which shed a disastrous influence over the rest of his life, 303. Compared with Petrarch, 304. Dr. Southey's translation of one of his sonnets, 306. His exile, 307. Mutilated in the wars of his country, but receives neither reward nor preferment, 310. His pathetic description of his friend Noronha's exile, 312. Offers to serve as a volunteer, and accompanies Vasconcellos in his expedition against the Mahometans, 315. Suspected of composing another satire; arrested, and banished to China, 316. Retires from the details of business, to pursue his poetical occupations, 317. Obtains leave to return to Goa; is wrecked at the mouth of the Mecon, 315. Pursues his voyage to Goa, where he is received by the viceroy with kindness and distinction, 320. Extracts from the seventh canto of the "Lusiad," 321. His poem commemorating the death of Caterina d'Atayde, 322. Accompanies Baretto, when he was appointed governor of Sofala, 323. Returns to Portugal, 324. Political state of the country disadvantageous to him, 325. Writes the "Parnasso de Luis Camoens," 325. A pension of 15,000 reis granted to him, 326. His illness and poverty, 327. His interview with the cavalier Camara, 328. His death, 329. His person, 329. Review of his life, 330. Review of his writings, 332.

Campaldino, the battle of, I. 14.

Camporese, the renowned philosopher, II. 189

Cancionero, the, III. 9.

Canigiani, Eletta, the mother of Petrarch, I. 61.

Caprona, the siege of, I. 15.

Carafa, Federigo, III. 41.

Carnescecchi, Pietro, II. 81.

Caro, Rodrigo, III. 83.

Casavecchia, Filippo, I. 296.

Castañeda, Gabrièl de, III. 133.

Castelli, Benedetti, II. 28.

Castillano, Diego, III. 138.

Castillejo, Cristoval, III. 93. Specimen of his style, 94.

Cavalcanti, Guido, I. 19.

Cavalcanti, Mainardo de', I. 134.

Caza, Francesco della, I. 263.

Celsi, Lorenzo, doge of Venice, I. 105.

Cervantes, III. 120. His birth and parentage; little known of his early life, 123. Enters a student in the university of Salamanca, 124. His poems published at Madrid, 125. Leaves Madrid in the service of cardinal Acquaviva, 125. Visits Rome; changes the whole course of his life; and volunteers to be a soldier, 126. His services during the Turkish war, 127. Wounded in the battle of Lepanto, 128. Receives an increase of pay, and is passed into a company of the tercio of Figueroa, 128. Visits Rome, Florence, Venice, Bologna, Naples, and Palermo, 129. Taken prisoner by an Algerine squadron on his return to Spain, 130. Interesting details of his captivity, 131. Makes several attempts to regain his liberty, 133. Detected in planning his escape; is sentenced to the bastinado, 137. His courage and heroism excite the respect of the friars of the Order of Mercy, who resided at Algiers for the purpose of treating for the ransom of the Christian captives, 139. Ransomed for 500 golden ducats, and left free to return to Spain, 140. Determines to refute certain calumnies of which he was the object, 141. Returns to his native land depressed by poverty, and obscured by want, 142. Becomes again a soldier by profession, 143. First appears as an author in the year 1584, 144. His marriage with donna Catilina de Palacios y Salazar, 145. Commences writing for the theatre; endeavours to rectify the deficiencies of the stage and scenery, 146. Accepts the situation of commissary, and sets out with his family for Seville, 147. His office abolished; he becomes the agent to various municipalities, corporations, and wealthy individuals, 148. During his distasteful employment at Seville, acquires the bitter view of human affairs displayed in Don Quixote, 149. Translation of his verses to the monument of the kings at Seville, 150. Various annoyances which he suffered in his financial occupations at Seville, 151. Anecdote, displaying the style in which justice was carried on in Spain, 152. Removes with his family to Valladolid, 153. His poverty the great and clinging evil of his life, 153. His letter to his uncle during his imprisonment at La Mancha, 154. Writes "Don Quixote" during his imprisonment, 155. Fails in his attempt to introduce himself to the duke of Lerma, 156. Difficulties which he encounters in publishing "Don Quixote," 157. The "Buscapié" attributed to him, 158. Success of "Don Quixote" excites the enmity of the men of letters of his day, 160. Suspected of murder, and thrown with his entire family into prison, 162. Is set at liberty, 162. Publishes his "Voyage to Parnassus," 164. Anecdote, showing the high esteem in which "Don Quixote" was held, 165. Brings cut his "Twelve Tales," which raises yet higher his character as an author, 167. His portrait of himself, in his preface to the "Twelve Tales," 168. His account of the origin of the Spanish drama, and the amelioration that he in his younger days introduced, 169. Publishes his "Persiles and Sigismunda," and the second part of "Don Quixote," 170. His dedication of it to the count of Lemos, 171. His last illness, 172. His interview with the student of Toledo, 173. His farewell letter to the count of Lemos, 174. His death, in the sixty-ninth year of his age, 174. His character, 174. Brief review of his works, 175. Extract from his "Numantia," 176. Extract from the comedy of "Life in Algiers," 178. Extract from his "Voyage to Parnassus," 184.

Cetina, III. 93.

Charlemagne, I. 2.

Charles of Valois, I. 20.

Chiabrera, Gabbriello, his birth, parentage, and early education, II. 163. Enters into the service of cardinal Camerlingo, 163. Writes some odes in imitation of Pindar; makes the Greek lyrical poets his models, 164. Wishes to transfuse the spirit of the Greeks into the Italian language, 165. Style of his poetry, 166. Specimen of his serious style, as translated by Wordsworth, 166. His death and character, 168.

Chiaramonte, Scipio, II. 44.

Chrysoloras, Emanuel, I. 151.

Ciani, a Carthusian monk; his visit to Boccaccio, I. 139.

Clement VI., pope, I. 89.

Colombe, Lodovico delle, II. 28.

Colonna, Giacomo, commencement of his friendship with Petrarch, I. 66.

Colonna, cardinal, I. 73.

Colonna, Vittoria, her birth, parentage, and marriage, II. 77. Her letter to her husband during his imprisonment, 78. Her grief at his death, 79. Extracts from her poems, 80. Her death, 81.

Conrad III., emperor, I. 2.

Consalvo, the Spanish general, I. 284.

Convennole, I. 63.

Copernicus, II. 7.

Corregio, Azzo, I. 87.

Coutinho, Miguel Rodriguez, III. 321.

Couto, Diogo de III. 324.