CHIABRERA, Gabriello:  his birth, ii. 287;
  educated by the Jesuits, ib.;
  his youth, 288;
  the occupations of a long life, 289;
  courtliness, 290;
  ode to Cesare d’Este, 291;
  Chiabrera’s aim to remodel Italian poetry on a Greek pattern. 292 sqq.;
  would-be Pindaric flights, 296;
  comparison with Marino and Tassoni, ib.

CIOTTO, Giambattista, relations of, with Giordano Bruno, ii. 152 sqq.

CISNEROS, Garcia de, author of a work which suggested
  S. Ignatius’s Exercitia, i. 236.

CLEMENT VII.:  a prisoner in S. Angelo, i. 14;
  compact with Charles V., 15;
  their meeting at Bologna, 16 sqq.;
  negotiations with the Emperor Elect, 26 sqq.;
  peace signed, 31.

CLEMENT VIII.:  his Concordat with Venice, i. 193;
  Index of Prohibited Books issued by him, ib.;
  his rules for the censorship of books, 198 sqq.;
  he confers a pension on Tasso, ii. 76.

CLOUGH, Mr., lines of, on ‘Christianized’ monuments in Papal Rome, i. 154.

COADJUTORS, Temporal and Spiritual (Jesuit grades), i. 271.

COLLALTO, Count Salici da, patron of the bravo Bibboni, i. 400.

COLONNA, the, reduced to submission to the Popes, i. 7.

—–­Vespasiano, Duke of Palliano, i. 77.

—–­Vittoria, i. 77;
  letter to, from Tasso in his childhood, ii. 15.

COMANDINO, Federigo, Tasso’s teacher, ii. 19.

COMPANY OF JESUS, see JESUITS.

CONCLAVES, external influences on, in the election of Popes, i. 134.

CONFEDERATION between Clement VII. and Charles V., i. 31.

‘CONFIRMATIONS,’ Fra Fulgenzio’s, ii. 201.

CONSERVATISM and Liberalism, necessary contest between, ii. 386.

‘CONSIDERATIONS on the Censures,’ Sarpi’s, ii. 201.

CONSTANCE, Council of, i. 92.

CONTARINI, Gasparo:  his negotiations between Catholics
  and Protestants, i. 30;
  treatment of his writings by Inquisitors, 31;
  suspected of heterodoxy, 72;
  intimacy with Gaetano di Thiene, 76;
  his concessions to the Reformers repudiated by the Curia, 78;
  memorial on ecclesiastical abuses, 79.

—–­Simeone:  his account of a plague at Savigliano, i. 419 sq.

‘CONTRIBUTIONS of the Clergy, Discourse upon the,’ Sarpi’s, ii. 221.

COPERNICAN system, the, Bruno’s championship of, ii. 172.

COREGLIA, one of the assassins of Lelio Buonvisi, i. 333 sqq.

CORONATION of Charles V., description of, i. 34 sqq.;
  notable people present at, 39 sqq.

CORSAIRS, Tunisian and Algerian, raids of, on Italian coasts, i. 417.

COSCIA, Giangiacopo, guardian of Tasso’s sister, ii. 16.

COSIMO I. of Tuscany, the rule of, i. 46, 47.

COSTANTINI, Antonio, Tasso’s last letter written to, ii. 77;
  sonnet on the poet, 78.