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Calza, Compagnia della, at Venice, 113

Candles, blessed by the Pope, as a safeguard in travelling, 134

Cardona, Don Raymond di, reviews his army, 307

Carnesecchi, the martyr, 361

Carpi, Tommaso, Pope Alexander's chamberlain, 258

"Carte de tendre," in the sixteenth century, 340

Castellano, duties of, 208

Cataleptic nature of Catherine's ecstasies, 23

Catherine of Siena, her story puzzling, specially so from the recentness of its date, 2; her home described, 7; her bedchamber, 8; her family, 19; not well–looking, 20; her travels, 24 her letters to Pope Urban, 27 her brothers made citizens of Florence, 29 did really restore the papacy to Rome, 30 legendary nature of her biography, 32 at five years old, 33 her early austerities, 34 her confessions, _ib._ her fasting, 37 her communications with our Saviour, 38 earns to read by miracle, _ib._ her marriage, 39 her renewed heart, _ib._ her visions, 40 she is joked with by our Saviour, _ib._ her charity to Christ in the disguise of a beggarman, 41 she converts sinners, 43 receives the stigmata, 47 ministers to the sick, 49 literary phase of her character, 51 her Dialogue of Divine Doctrine, _ib._ her prayers, 54 her letters, 55 miraculously taught to write, 58 prayer by her in Tuscan verse, 62 writes reproof to the Pope, 65 her letter to Charles V. of France, 67 how far was she sincere, 77 her moral standard, 80 her great value to the Dominicans, 82 her influence still operative, 83 her strength of character, 85 her ambition, 86

Cervino, Cardinal, Vittoria Colonna's letter to, 389

Cesare Borgia, 241 appears before Imola, 247 makes triumphal entry into Forlì, 250 parleys with Catherine, 251 visits Catherine his prisoner, 254

Cesena, troops brought from, against Forlì, 192

Charles VIII. of France invades Italy, 217 abandons Naples, 274 death, 276

Charles V. visits Vittoria Colonna, 351 short–sighted in the matter of the Interim, 136 anecdote of his reception by the Fuggers, 143 in winter quarters at Innspruck, 169 escapes to Villach, 170

Chattel property, importance of, in fifteenth century, 140

Christ appears to St. Catherine as a beggarman, 41

Clan, solidarity in medieval Italy, 227

Clare St., convent fire at, 297

Cobelli Leon, the chronicler,144

Codronchi Innocenzio; the seneschal seizes the fort Ravaldino, 177 his strange conduct, 178

Colonna, protonotary, persecution of, 161 his tortures and death, 162

Colonna, Cardinal, plundered, 161

Colonna family, power, and wealth of, 279 persecuted by Alexander VI., 285 grants of land to them, 292 at war with Pope Clement, 330 Fabrizio, his political conduct, 290 his death, 319

Colonna Vittoria; her parents, 277 eldest child, and not youngest, as the biographers say, 278 betrothed to Pescara, 283 educated by Duchessa di Francavilla, _ib._ her beauty, 288 presents received from, and made to her husband, 299 her marriage, 300 her honeymoon in Ischia, 301 her epistle to her husband, 304 continues childless, 306 educates the Marchese del Vasto, _ib._ her life in Ischia, 312 sees her husband for the last time, 319 Varchi's character of her, 323 no trace of patriotic sentiment in her writings, 325 her widowhood, 328 retires to the convent of San Silvestro in Capite, 329 returns to Ischia, 330 character of her sonnets, 331 specimens of them, 332 her desire to die, 337 her idea of her husband's goodness, 338 what was the real nature of her sentiments towards her husband's memory, 339 her purity of character, 340 in Rome in 1530, 346 her rambles in Rome, _ib._ her intimacies, 350 her religious poetry, 351 visited by Charles V., _ib._ visits Lucca and Ferrara, _ib._ her protestant tendencies, 352 welcomed to Ferrara by Ercole d'Este, _ib._ thinks of visiting the Holy Land, 354 returns to Rome, _ib._ submissive to the church, 361 her devotional sonnets, 369, _et seq._ no moral sentiments in her poetry, 372 absence of all patriotic feeling in her sonnets, 376 arrives in Rome from Ferrara, 377 opinions of her poetry by contemporary critics, _ib._ her influence with Paul III., 378 her friendship with Michael Angelo, _ib._ goes to Orvieto, and returns to Rome, 382 question of her orthodoxy, 383 conversation with Michael Angelo, 387 at Viterbo, 388 her letter to Cervino, 389 returns for the last time to Rome, 390 Fracastoro consulted on her health, _ib._ sorrows in her last days, 391 her death, _ib._

Colours, favourite, in fifteenth century, 406

Confessional, Vittoria Colonna on, 365

Contarini, his mission, and hopes of reconciliation, 354 dedicates his work on Free Will to Vittoria Colonna, 378

Contile, Luca, his visit to Vittoria Colonna, 382

Convent–building, investment in, 172

Conversation in the fifteenth century, 384

Conversions operated by St. Catherine, 43

Corio, his history of Milan, 400

Corsi, Rinaldo, his commentary on Vittoria Colonna's poetry, 348

Costume, female, in fifteenth century, 401

Costume at Venice in the end of fifteenth century, 113

Crucifixion, sonnet on, by Vittoria Colonna, 374

Cuppani, L., copyist of Catherine's book of secrets, 264

Cynicism of Catherine, 267

Cynicism, singular instance of, 401

Cyprian dresses, 124