not the inventor of Machiavellianism, 335;
      it assumes Reparation of statecraft and morality, 335;
      an abstract of political expediency, 336;
      how permanently to assimilate provinces, 338;
      colonies, 338;
      founders of monarchies, 343;
      distinction between monarch and despot, 341;
      use of cruelty, 354;
      value of distrust, 358;
      military precautions, 360;
      the work condemned
      by the Inquisition, 336;
      opinion of it in France, 326;
      quoted, 45, 82, 84, 96, 98, 115, 116, 146, 152, 187, 202, 214,
          215, 245, 325, 447, 450, 453, 460. 
Madonna, conventional idea of, 18. 
Malatesta, 172. 
Malespini, chronicle, 251. 
Mantegna, works, 489. 
Mantuanus, B., quoted, 394. 
Marlowe quoted, 336. 
Marston, cited, 473, 475. 
Massa, B. da, 611. 
Masuccio quoted, 458, 486. 
Matarazzo, works, 292; quoted, 583. 
Medici, their policy, 87, 90, 128, 155, 228, 230;
  expulsion, 222;
  connection with papacy, 404;
  services to literature, 600. 
    Alessandro, 298;
    Cosimo, 300, 492;
    Lorenzo, 504, 628;
      death, 523;
    Piero, 558. 
Michelet quoted, 15, 585. 
Middle Age:  mental condition, 6, 13;
  inaccessibility to mental ideas, 7;
  political character, 8;
  art, 17;
  scholarship, 20. 
Milan, 58; Visconti and Sforza, 154. 
Milman quoted, 530. 
Milton, 454. 
Mirandola, 171, 456, 520;
  quoted, 401, 511. 
Monaldeschi, L. B., 252. 
Montferrat, 146. 
Montone, B. da, 123, 159. 
Morals (see Italy, society; Papacy, court; Virtu;) in Cellini’s memoirs,
      325;
  sexual immorality,474;
  tyrannicide defended, 468. 
Muentz, E., cited, 384. 
Muzio quoted, 174.

N

Naples (see Italy), attraction for foreigners, 566;
  claims of house
  of Anjou, 539;
  flight of king, 574. 
Nardi, 278, 280, 290;
  works, 291;
  quoted, 292, 511, 534, 592. 
Nerli, 278, 290; works, 293 seq.;
  quoted, 328. 
Nicholas V., 378. 
Normans In Italy, 58.

O

Olgiati, 166. 
Orsini, 375. 
Otho 1., 52.

P

Pamponazzo, 456. 
Pandolfini, 239;
  works, 241. 
Papacy (see Catholic Church), “the ghost of the Roman empire,” 6;
  church and state, 8;
  Charles the Great, 51;
  imperial nominees, 59;
  change in mode of election, 60;
  effect of crushing the Hohenstauffen, 101;
  nepotism, 114;
  authority in 14th century, 371, 375;
  secularization, 371, 375;
  temporal power, 376; its consolidation, 378;
  its extent, 434;
  persecution, 402;
  of Platonists, 417;
  its effect, 418;
  plan to transform Papacy to kingdom, 392;