D.

Dante's obligations to Guerrino il Meschino, 22

Death, the desire for, 194

Demimonde and Monde in sixteenth century, 16

Dialogue on Love, Tullia's, 27

Diction, over–attention to, in Italy, 83

Dominicans, church of, at Bologna, 366

Domenichi Ludovico, 17

Donati, Maria, B. Cappello's servant, 222

Drama, Italian literature weak in, 206

E.

Eleonora di Teledo, patronises Tullia, 28 her death, 228

Eleonora di Garzia, 240 her murder, 255

Emilio, Olympia's brother accompanies her to Italy, 141 falls out of window, 150 his death, 198

Erbach, counts of, 178 receive Olympia, 179 their mode of life, 180

F.

Family feeling in Italy, 317

Famine in Ferrara, 49

Fannio, the martyr, 115, 118

Ferdinando de' Medici, Cardinal, 237 his causes of discontent, 245 his knowledge of all that passed at Florence, 246 receives the confession of the woman who managed the introduction of Don Antonio, 266 his indignation, 267 his change of conduct after the death of the Duchess Giovanna, 287 goes to Florence in 1579, 293 his anger at leaving his brother's marriage, 294 his pecuniary difficulties, 304 his reconciliation with Bianca, 305 his misgivings respecting Bianca's intentions, 319, _et seq._ again in Florence, 326 refuses his brother's invitation, 328 visits Francesco for the Villeggiatura, 330 suspected of poisoning Francesco and Bianca, 334, 337, _et seq._ his conduct after the death of his brother, 341 his probable motives, _ib._ succeeds peaceably to his brother, 345

Fernandez, Fernando, La Corilla's husband, 396

Festivities at Lucrezia Borgia's marriage, 44, 48

Filippo, son of Giovanna, his death, 312

Flach, M. invited by Olympia to translate some of Luther's works into Italian, 158

"Flourishing;" what is the period of a lady's, 20

Forca, via della, in Florence, Corilla's home, 393

Francesco de' Medici, 236 his character, 238 his court, 242 his character, _ib._ his temper, 243 his wealth, 244 his interview with Orsini, 247 easily duped by Bianca's trick, 264 becomes an accomplice in introducing a false heir, 270 in the Oricellari gardens, 281 feelings on the death of his wife, 284 his wishes and fears to marry Bianca, 285 his discontent with the court of France, 288 sends poison and assassins into France, 289 consults the church with reference to his marriage with Bianca, 290 marries Bianca, 292 entertains 170 Venetians, 298 his munificence to them, 303 his troubles about his title, 306 why he showed no grief at his son's death, 312 his life at Pratolino, 315 his cruelty to Camilla de' Martelli, 321 his suspicions and strange conduct, 327 invites the Cardinal to Florence, 328 his death, 332 different theories respecting it, 333, _et seq._ his illness, 335 circumstances attending his death, 340

Frari at Venice, Archives, 220

Fugger family, 143 ridiculous blunder respecting their name, 144 their residence, _ib._

G.

Gallerati, Dr., his prescriptions for E. Sirani, 381 his opinion on her death, 382

Gelli, Giambatista, his comedy of the "Sporta," 210

German cities refuse to accept the Interim, 136

Gibbon, on Lucrezia Borgia, 40

Ginori, Lorenzo, pays the cost of Corilla's crowning, 406

Giovanni de' Medici, his embassy to Venice, 297

Giraldi, G. Gregorio, 56 his verses to Olympia Morata, 88

Giulia of Ferrara, 7

Gloucester, Duke of, present at Corilla's crowning, 410

Grünthler, Andreas, 124 his wooing, 125 marriage, 126 returns to Germany, 127 his prospects in Germany, 133 prolonged absence from his wife, 138 returns to bring his wife to Germany, 139 attends Hermann in his illness, 147 settles at Schweinfurth, 151 rejects appointment offered at Lintz, 166 struck down by pestilence in Schweinfurth, 173 obtains a chair at Heidelberg, 181 obliged to borrow money, 19 in the pestilence at Heidelberg, 196 his death, 198

Guarini, Alexander, 56

Guerrazzi, his dialogue between Francesco and his brother Pietro de' Medici, 250

Guerrino el Meschino, origin of, 23

H.

Hammelburg, Olympia's escape to, 177

Heidelberg, in the sixteenth century, 186 pestilence breaks out in, 196

Hercules I., Duke of Ferrara, 35 his reply to Venice, 36 his piety, 37 his death, 49 resists the Pope, 147

Hercules II., of Ferrara, his dealings with the church, 73 his unwillingness to receive Paul III., 93

Hermann, George, of Augsburg, 138

Hirschhorn, evening in the inn at, 182

History, happy times have little, 168 the makers of, _ib._

Hubert, Thomas, of Liège, 138

Humidi, academy of, 15

Hydrostatic difficulties of the Duke of Ferrara, 97 disputes arising from, 98, _et seq._