M.
Macchiavelli in Forlì, 244
Magnani, Bishop, his rule at Forlì, 154
Maimbourg's testimony to Catherine's influence in restoring the papacy to Rome, 29
Malatesta, Robert, death of, 155 suspicions respecting it, 156
Manfredi, Tadeo, lord of Imola, 95 Guidazzo, his son,96
Mansion family, an Italian noble's feeling about, 202
Mantellate of St. Domenico, 19
Mantua, Marchioness of, visits the Spanish army, 308
Manual for confessors, 49
Marino, description of, 280
Medals of Vitt. Colonna, 328 the last struck in her lifetime, 381
Michael Angelo, his friendship with Vitt. Colonna, 378 his disposition and temperament, _ib._ influenced by Vitt. Colonna, 379 in the church of San Silvestro, 386 with Vitt. Colonna in her last moments, 391 present fate of papers and memorials left by, 409
Milan, wealth of, 90
Ministry to the sick, St. Catherine's, 49
Miracles recorded of St. Catherine, specimens only can be given, 33 miraculous conversions wrought by her, 45 of the stigmata, 47 many may be explained, 79
Molza, the poet, 346
Montano Cola and his pupils, 99
Morality of some of St. Catherine's actions, 49 low, in Vitt. Colonna's poetry, 373
Morone, minister of the Duke of Milan, 321 entrapped by Pescara, 324
Murate convent, 263
Muratori's testimony to her influence in restoring the papacy to Rome, 29
Mussis de Johannes, his curious chronicle of ancient Placentian manners, 401
N.
Naldi, Dionigi; Castellano at Imola, 247
Naples, cause of quarrel with Milan, 273 rapid changes of government, 275 finally falls under power of Spain, 277
New year's eve festival, 252
Nitre, bought for Florence in Pesaro, 246
O.
Ochino, Bernardino, 316
Olanda di Francesco, his record of conversations with Vitt. Colonna, 383, _et seq._
Olgiato, G., assassin of the Duke, 117 his execution, 118
Oratory of divine love, 356
Ordelaffi, family of the, 127 conspiracies in favour of, 151 favoured by the Forlivesi, 152
Orsi, Ludovico, accomplice in Riario's murder, 183
Orsi, the father of the above, his experience of revolutions, 191 his palace razed, 201 he is put to death, 202
Orsi, Checco, his quarrel with Riario, 180 he murders Riario, 181 his reply to the Duke of Milan, 195 determines to murder Catherine's children, 198 fails, and quits Forlì, _ib._
Orthodoxy of Vitt. Colonna, 375
Ottaviano Riario, general in the service of Florence, 244
Oudin, Father Casimir, his doubts as to St. Catherine's authorship, 52
P.
Pace, Pietro de, his adventure, 296
Pansecco, L., assassin of Riario, 182
Papal infallibility, doctrine of, dear to Italian minds, 367
Papire Masson, his high estimate of St. Catherine's letters, 65
Paradise, Catherine Sforza's, 231 difficulty of paying for it, _ib._
Pasquinades on Cardinal Riario, 400
Passeri, the weaver, Neapolitan diarist, 408
Patriotism has no place in Vitt. Colonna's poetry, 376
Paul II., Pope, 102
Paul III. Pope, 349 creates several good cardinals, 350 makes war on the Colonnas, 381 his conduct respecting his son, ii. 42 his character, 79 waits in vain near Canossa for Charles V., 93 visits Ferrara, 94 his death, 114
Pazzi conspiracy,135
Pescara, Ferdinand, Marquis of, 287 joins the army, 301 made prisoner, 303 complimented by Isabella of Aragon, _ib._ his Dialogo d'amore, 304 his character, 309 anecdote of his cruelty, 310 last interview with his wife, 319 his cruelty, 320 his treachery and infamy, 321 his Spanish predilections, 325 rewarded for his infamy, 327 his death, _ib._
Petrarchism in the sixteenth century, 343
Phœnix burning in Italy, 271
Piccolomini, Don Alfonso, his marriage, 315
Pio Nono, anecdote of, 89
Platonism of the sixteenth century, 339
Poland, King of, marriage festivities of, in Naples, 313
Pole, Cardinal, his influence on Vitt. Colonna, 388
Political intrigues in Italy, 1481, 146
Politics, Italian, in the fifteenth century, 93
Popes, good and bad, succeed in sets, 103
Pozzuoli, caverns of, 296
Prayers by St. Catherine, 54
Protestant tendencies of Vitt. Colonna, 352
Pyramus and Thisbe medal, 348
R.
Ravaldino, fortress of, at Forlì, 172
Ravenna, rout of, 303
Raymond of Capua, 9 becomes General of the Dominicans, 10 his Life of St. Catherine, 11 specimens of that work, 14 his proof of Catherine's miraculous powers, 22 his assertion of a miracle, 31 bequeathes two volumes of Catherine's letters, 57 his insincerity, 81
Reading, learned by Catherine of Siena, by miracle, 38
Reformers in Italy, 357
Renaissance, women of the, vi little available as models for imitation, vii wars of the, in Italy, ignoble in their nature, 291
Revolution, striking proneness to, in mediæval Italian cities, 226
Riario, Girolamo, 106 made citizen of Rome, 127 invested with lordship of Forlì, _ib._ made general of the Roman forces, 128 contriver of the Pazzi conspiracy, 136 his wealth, 141 his reasons for quitting Rome, 142 remits tax on corn, 144 his extensive architectural undertakings, 145, 172 his visit to Venice, 146 is dissatisfied with the results of it, 150 returns to Imola, 150 returns to Rome, 152 marches against the Neapolitans, 153 his savage conduct to the Protonotary Colonna, 161 in difficulty after the Pope's death, 167 returns to Forlì, 169 confirmed in his possessions and offices by Innocent VIII., 170 his difficult position, 171 finds himself a poor man, 172 has a hard life, 174 his dangerous illness, 176 his death, 181
Riario, Peter, Cardinal, his preferments, 105 his pomp, 107 his rivalry with Galeazzo Sforza, 107 his visit to Milan, 108 his visit to Venice, 112 his death, 114 his epitaph, 115
Riario family is founded, 166 present family, ancestor of, 173
Rohan, Cardinal de, anecdote of his death and burial, 156
Roman history, dangerous reading, 99, 117
Rome, life in, A.D. 1480–90, 128, 130 hunting party near, 133 life in, A.D. 1482, 155 riots in, 160 anarchy in, at the death of Pope Sixtus, 168
Rome's feudal dues, 241
Ronchi, G., assassin of Riario, 182 threatens Catherine, 187
Rose, Golden, to what English sovereigns sent, 405
Rosmini, his history of Milan, 400
S.
Sadoleto obtains a bull to prevent Vitt. Colonna from taking the veil, 329
St. Angelo, castle of, anecdote of an escape from, 157
Salt–tax occasions war between the Colonna and Paul III., 381
Salviati, Archbishop, hung at Florence, 135
Santi, Gismondo, murder of, 322
Santo Spirito, church of, burned down, 101
Savelli, Cardinal, invited to Forlì by the insurgents, 185 his interview with Catherine, 186 is duped by Catherine, 190 his reply to the Lord of Bologna, 192 finds himself in difficulty, 194 forges a bull, _ib._
Schismatic Pope, important consequences of, 75
Secrets, Catherine's volume of wonderful, 264
Sforza, Galeazzo Maria, 91 his journey to Florence, 97 his pleasures, 109 his death, 117 his character, 119
Sforza, Catherine, born 91 legitimation of her, 95 projects of marriage, 95 accompanies her father to Florence, 97 negotiations for her marriage with Girolamo Sforza, 111 her marriage in danger, 116 her marriage, 121 her entry into Rome, 123 her personal appearance, _ib._ her residence in Rome, 125 her influence with Sixtus IV., 126 whether guilty of the Pazzi conspiracy, 137 her three elder children, 138 her entry into Forlì, 142 her questionable happiness, 154 her energetic conduct after the Pope's death, 167 her younger children, 173 a helpful wife to her husband, 175 her character, 176 visits Milan, _ib._ nurses her husband in his illness, 177 her night–ride to Forlì, 178 recovers possession of Ravaldino, 179 birth of her sixth child, 180 her first steps on learning the murder of her husband, 185 is imprisoned by the Orsi, 186 is threatened by the insurgents, 187 succeeds in obtaining permission to enter the castle, 189 her clemency, 199 her graciousness in the hour of triumph, 200 her virile energy, 204 marriage projected for her, 205 her anger thereat, 206 lures the Castellano out of Ravaldino, 209 orders a man to the rack for speaking of her marriage with Feo, 210 conduct to her children, 211 decides on allying herself with Naples, 219 breaks that alliance, _ib._ conduct after the murder of Feo, 224 doubts as to her innocence of Feo's murder, 225 what she thanked God for, 226 her vengeance, 227 builds a new palace and gardens, 230 how she finds the money to pay for them, 232 her third marriage, 234 her posterity by this marriage, 236 her trade in soldiers, 240 deposed by Alexander VI., 241 her recruiting, 242 negotiations with Macchiavelli, 245 her conference with her subjects, 248 batters Forlì, 249 is taken prisoner, 253 taken to Rome, 255 accused of conspiracy to poison the Pope, 257 confined in St. Angelo, 260 released by interference of French king, 262 goes to Florence, _ib._ retires to the Murate, _ib._ her volume of wonderful secrets, 264 her moral and intellectual condition, 268 her death, 270 apocryphal story of, 407
Siena, description of, 3
Silvestro San, in Capite, Vitt. Colonna retires thither,329 church of, party in, 385
Sixtus IV., Pope, 102 his lineage, 103 his character, 104 whether guilty of the Pazzi conspiracy, 136 his designs on Ferrara, 153 his fraudulent granaries, 155 his violence to the court of the Rota, 158 condemns a painter to death, 159 implacability towards the Colonna, 161 his despair at the conclusion of peace, 164 and death, 165
Sleep, St. Catherine's abstinence from, 78
Soldiers, trade in, by little princes of Italy, 240
Sonnets, theological, of Vitt. Colonna, 362, _et seq._ character of, 332 specimen of Vitt. Colonna's, 333, _et seq._
Stella, Catherine's sister, her marriage, 193
Stigmata, miracle of the, 47
T.
Tapestry belonging to Ferdinand I., 297
Tasso, Bernardo, his sonnet on the society in Ischia, 313
Taxation, unequal, 231 applied to give alms to ruined taxpayers, 233
Tiraboschi, his opinion of Vittoria's orthodoxy, 361
Tolentino, Francesco, governor of Forlì, 151
Toll–bars, Catherine's, 212 failure of them, 213
Torelli, Onorato, 95
Trissino, Giangiorgio, letter to him from Vitt. Colonna, 353 Tyrants, occasional impotence of, 158
U.
Ughelli, Abate, his testimony to Catherine's influence, 29