D.

Della Crusca, Academy of, approves of St. Catherine's style, 64

Despotism in Italy, its results, 239

Divine doctrine, book of, by St. Catherine, 51 specimen of, 53

Dominican Order, St. Catherine devoted to, 80 of important value to, 82, 87

Dominican monks, Catherine of Siena's special reverence for, 34

E.

Ecstasies of St. Catherine, 21

Ercolani Ludovico, Riano's butler, his faithful services after his master's murder, 182, _et seq._

Ercole d'Este welcomes Vitt. Colonna to Ferrara, 352

Ernest of Saxony arrives in Rome, 131 honours shown him, 132

Executions in Forlì, 201

F.

Faith, justification by, doctrine of, why obnoxious to the Catholic Church, 359

Falsehood, St. Catherine guilty of, 79

Famine at Rome, A.D. 1482, 155

Felony in ermine, 147

Feo, Tommaso, made Castellano of Ravaldino, 179 his speech to the insurgents, 190 turned out of his place, 209

Feo, Giacomo, 207 his marriage with Catherine, 210 made Castellano, _ib._ honours heaped on him, 211 made Baron by the French King, 220 his assassination, 221

Ferdinand of Naples, death, 273

Ferdinand II. of Naples, 274 his death, 293

Ferdinand of Spain, 275 his entry into Naples, 295

Ferrara, Court of, 351 under its old Dukes, 33, _et seq._ increase of, 35 noted for its learned men, 37 famine and pestilence in, 49 Calvin at, 72 Paul III's. visit to, 94 curious alteration in the level of the soil, 97

Finance difficulties of Catherine, 213

Fleet, Roman, blessing of the, 139

Florence employs Catherine as a negotiator, 26 Galeazzo Sforza'sjourney to, 97 at war with Pisa,240

Fontebranda fountain, 5

Forlì, city of, 127 gala on the arrival of the new sovereigns, 143 situated between two armies, 217 importance of the belligerents, 219

Forlivesi, maltreated by Borgia's soldiers, 251

Fortresses in Italian mediæval cities, their importance, 196

Fracastoro, his letter on Vittoria Colonna's health, 390

Francavilla, Duchessa di, 283

Franciscans claim monopoly of the miracle of the stigmata, 48

Frederick of Aragon in Ischia, 294

Funeral of Giacomo Feo, 229

Furniture, household, value of, in fifteenth century, 406

G.

Gambara, Veronica, her estimate of Vittoria Colonna, 377

Gianantonio di Parma, anecdote of, 157

Giberto, Cardinal, invites Vitt. Colonna to Verona, 353 his letter to Cardinal Bembo, _ib._

Giovanna d'Aragona, 346

Giovanni de' Medici, 235 his death, 237

Guicciardini, on the state of Italy in 1494, 90 his estimate of good times in Italy, 216

H.

Harford, Mr., his account of Vitt. Colonna's letter to Michael Angelo, 379

Haters, the Italians great, 238

Heart, Catherine of Siena's change of, 39

Hunting party near Rome, 133