SAVONAROLA’S opinion of the Church music of his time, ii. 320 n.

SAVOY, the house of: 
  its connection with important events in Italy, i. 16 n., 38, 56;
  becomes an Italian dynasty, 58.

‘SCHERNO DEGLI DEI,’ Bracciolini’s, ii. 313.

SCHOLASTICS (Jesuit grade), i. 271.

SCHOPPE (Scioppius), Gaspar: 
  sketch of his career, ii. 165, 208;
  his account of Bruno’s heterodox opinions, 166;
  description of the last hours of Bruno, 167.

‘SECCHIA RAPITA, LA,’ Tassoni’s, ii. 301 sqq.

SECONDARY writers of the Sei Cento, ii. 313.

SEI CENTO, the, decline of culture in Italy in, ii. 242;
  its musicians, 243.

SEMINARIES, Tridentine, ii. 235.

SERIPANDO, Cardinal, legate at Trent, i. 118.

SERSALE, Alessandro and Antonio, Tasso’s nephews, ii. 72.

—–­Cornelia (sister of Tasso), ii. 7, 9, 15 sq., 55, 64;
  her children, 72.

SERVITES, General of the, complicity of, in the attempts on
  Sarpi’s life, ii. 214.

SETTLEMENT of Italy effected by Charles V. and Clement VII.,
  net results of, i. 45 sqq.

‘SEVEN Liberal Arts, On the,’ a lost treatise by Giordano
  Bruno, ii. 156, 182.

SFORZA, Francesco Maria, his relations with Charles V., i. 28.

—–­Lodovico (Il Moro, ruler of Milan), invites Charles VIII.
  into Italy, i. 8.

SICILY, separated from Naples, i. 4.

SIENA, republic of, subdued by Florence, i. 47.

‘SIGNS of the Times, The,’ a lost work by Giordano Bruno, ii. 136.

SIGONIUS:  his History of Bologna blocked by the Index, i. 207.

SIMONETA, Cardinal, legate at Trent, i. 118, 121.

SIXTUS V., Pope: 
  short-sighted hoarding of treasure by, i. 153;
  his enactments against brigandage, 152;
  accumulation of Papal revenues, ib.;
  public works, 153;
  animosity against pagan art, ib.;
  works on and about S. Peter’s, 154;
  methods of increasing revenue, 155;
  nepotism, 157;
  development of the Papacy in his reign, 158;
  his death predicted by Bellarmino, 298;
  his behavior after the murder of his nephew (Felice Peretti), 362.

SODERINI, Alessandro, assassinated together with his nephew
  Lorenzino de’Medici, i. 398.

SOLIMAN, Paul IV.’s negotiations with, i. 103.

SOMASCAN Fathers, Congregation of the, i. 79.

S. ONOFRIO, Tasso’s death at, ii. 78;
  the mask of his face at, 116.

SORANZO, on the character of Pius IV., i. 111 n.;
  on Carlo Borromeo, 116 n.;
  on the changes in Roman society in 1565, 143.

‘SPACCIO della Bestia Trionfante, Lo,’ Giordano Bruno’s,
  ii. 132 n., 140, 165, 183 sq.

SPADA, Lionello, Bolognese painter, ii. 364.