Appiani, 148. 
Ariosto, works, 119;
  cited, 413;
  quoted, 130
Aristotle, influence of his writings, 197;
  quoted, 234, 235. 
Art in Middle Age, 17;
  effect of religious conventionalism, 18;
  revolution made by Renaissance, 18, 19. 
    Italian, inimical to ugliness, 490;
  flourishes under despots, 79. 
Ascham, R., quoted, 472.

B

Bacon, Francis, 26;
  Roger, 9, 10. 
Baglioni, 122, 148. 
Barbiano, 159. 
Bartoli, A., cited, 252. 
Beccadelli, 174. 
Bellini, works, 488. 
Bentivogli, 102, 115, 123. 
Bergamo, V. da, 618. 
Bernard, St., 13. 
Berni cited, 443. 
Bibbiena, 184;
  quoted, 190. 
Bible, discovery of the original, 20. 
Blood-madness, 109, 589 seq.
Boccaccio, 11, 20. 
Boiado, 171. 
Bologna, 123, 617. 
Boniface VIII., 76. 
Borgia, Cesare, 117, 324, 345 seq., 426, 577;
  murders, 352. 
Borgia, Lucrezia, 419;
  character cleared of calumny, 420. 
Borgia, Roderigo (see Alexander VI). 
Boscoli, P. P., 466. 
Bracciolini, P., 274. 
Brantome quoted, 117. 
Brescia, 615;
  Arnold of, 64. 
Browning, R., quoted, 13. 
Bruni, L., 274. 
Buonarotti, 491;
  works, 19. 
Burchard cited, 430, 431. 
Burckhardt cited, 428;
  quoted, 434. 
Burton, Robert, cited, 475. 
Bussolaro, J. del, 610. 
Byzantine empire, effect of its fall, 14

C

Capistrano, G. da, 615. 
Capponi, P., 284, 563. 
Carducci, 284, 289;
  works, 293. 
Carmagnuola, F., 161. 
“Carmina Burana,” 9. 
Carrara, 149. 
Carroccio, 58. 
Castiglione, works, 183, 457. 
Catholic Church (see Papacy). 
  Support of Church required by good society, 455;
  philosophy and theology fused, 456;
  religion divorced from morality, 462, 493;
  influence of ancient literature, 464;
  aestheticism, 465;
  humanism antagonistic to Christianity, 493;
  its corruption, 448 seq.;
  not universal, 470;
  immorality of priests, 458, 459;
  superstition, 466;
  relics, 461;
  sanctity of pope, 462;
  power of forms, 471;
  counter-reformation, 25;
  power of ecclesiastical eloquence, 491;
  revivals, 490, 606 seq.;
  indestructable vigor of religious faith, 469. 
Cellini, B., 104, 462, 492; memoirs, 325. 
Charles VIII. (see Italy, history), 540 seq.;
  escape, 580. 
Charles of Anjou, 75. 
Charles the Great, 50. 
Chivalry, 483. 
Christianity (see Catholic Church, Morals),
  influence in forming modern society, 7;
  how affected by Renaissance, 25. 
Clement VII., 443, 633. 
Colonnesi, 375. 
Columbus, 15. 
Comines cited, 416;
  quoted, 214, 475, 541, 553, 572, 578. 
Condottieri, 86, 113, 131, 156 seq.; 245, 361;