I.

Improvisation, talents needful for, 400 tendencies of, 401

Indulgence to Ferrara, 48

Innocent X., Pope, 351 his early preferments, 352 election to the papacy, 353 his death, 360

Innspruck, Charles V. in winter quarters at, 169

Interim, the, 135

Isabella Orsini, 228 her character, 241 her death, 248 judgment of history on her, 249

Italy loses her pre–eminence of civilisation, 123

Italian nature, dramatic, 206

J.

Joan of Austria, marriage with Francesco de' Medici, 231 her unhappy position, 237, 241, 271 her extravagance, 272 has a son, _ib._ her death, 282

Joan, Pope, story of, 346

Julius II., Pope, designs on Ferrara, 50

Julius III., Pope, 114