L.

Labadini, Lazzaro, II. 169.

Landino, Christofero, I. 152.

Latini, Brunetto, tutor to Dante, I. 4.

Laura de Sâde, her first meeting with Petrarch, I. 68. Her death, 95.

Leon, Luis Ponce de, his birth, parentage, and education, III. 71. Style of his writings, 72. Made doctor of theology by the university of Salamanca, 72. Elected to chair of St. Thomas, 72. Confined in a dungeon of the inquisition for translating the Scriptures into the vulgar tongue, 73. Translation of his "Ode to the Virgin," composed during his imprisonment, 74. Liberated at the end of five years, and restored to all his honours and employments, 76. His death, in the sixty-fourth year of his age, 76. His person, 76. His amiable character, 77. Brief review of his writings, 78. Mr. Wiffen's translation of his "Ode on the Moorish Invasion," 79.

Lippa Ariosta, I. 196.

Lobeira, Vasco, author of the first romance of chivalry, III. 10.

Louis of Bavaria, I. 133.

Lima, Simon Freire de, III. 151.

Luna, don Juan de, III. 61.