brigandage, 307;
  criminal procedure, 308;
  mutual jealousy of States afforded security to refugee homicides, 309;
  toleration of outlaws, 310;
  the Lucchese army of bandits, 311;
  honorable murder, 312;
  maintenance of bravi, ib.;
social violence countenanced by the Church, 314;
  sexual morality, 315;
  state of convents, 316;
  profligate fanaticism, ib.;
  convent intrigues, 318 sqq.

MORATO, Peregrino, letter from Celio Calcagnini to, i. 74.

MORNAY, Duplessis, Sarpi’s letters to, ii. 229.

MORONE, Cardinal, i. 26;
  Papal legate at Trent, 97 n.;
  imprisoned by Paul IV., 110;
  relations with Pius IV., ib.;
  liberal thinkers among his associates, 111 n.;
  his work in connection with the Council of Trent, 127.

—–­Girolamo, i. 26, 72.

MUNICIPAL wars, Italian, ii. 304.

MURDERS in Italy in the sixteenth century, i. 305 sqq.

MURETUS: 
  his difficulties as a professor in Rome, i. 214, 216.

MURTOLA, Gasparo, attempted assassination of the poet Marino by, ii. 263.

MUSIC, Italian, decadence of, in the sixteenth century, ii. 315;
  foreign musicians in Rome, 316;
  the contrapuntal style, 317;
  licenses allowed to performers, ib.;
  the medleys prepared by composers, ib.;
  disgraceful condition of Church music, 318;
  orchestral ricercari, 320 n.;
  Savonarola’s opinion of the Church music of his time, ib.;
  musical aptitude of the people, 322;
  lack of a controlling element of correct taste, ib.;
  advent of Palestrina, ib.;
  the Congregation for the Reform of Music, 325;
  rise of the Oratorio, 334;
  music in England in the sixteenth century, 338;
  rise of the Opera, 340.

MUSICIANS, Italian, of the seventeenth cenutry, ii. 243.

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NAPLES, kingdom of, separated from Sicily, i. 4;
  its extent, ib.;
  in the hands of Spain, 12.

NASSAU, Count of, i. 38.

NATURE, the study of, among Italian philosophers, ii. 128.

NEPOTISM, Papal: 
  the Caraffas, i. 104 sq.;
  the Borromeos, 115;
  the Ghislieri, 147;
  Gregory XIII.’s relatives, 151;
  estimate of the incomes of Papal nephews, 156 sqq.

NEW Christians, the, in Spain, see JEWS.

NOBILI, Flaminio de’, a censor of the Gerusalemme Liberata, ii. 43.

NOLA, survival of Greek customs in, ii. 132.

NOVICES, Jesuit, position of, i. 271.

NUNNERIES, state of, in the sixteenth century, i. 315 sqq.

O

OMERO, Fuggiguerra, sobriquet chosen by Tasso in his wanderings, ii. 64.