SPAIN: 
  its position in Italy after the battle of Pavia, i. 14.

SPANIARDS of the sixteenth century, character of, i. 59.

SPERONI, Sperone: 
  his criticism of Tasso’s Gerusalemme, ii. 44;
  a friend of Chiabrera, 287.

SPHERE, the, Giordano Bruno’s doctrine of, ii. 135, 144 sq.

STENDHAL, De (Henri Beyle): 
  his Chroniques et Nouvelles cited: 
    on the Cenci, i. 351 sq.;
    the Duchess of Palliano, 373.

STERILITY of Protestantism, ii. 401.

STROZZI, Filippo, i. 46.

—–­Piero, i. 47.

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TASSO, Bernardo (father of Torquato), i. 38;
  his birth and parentage, ii. 5;
  the Amadigi, 7, 11, 18, 35;
  his youth and marriage, 7;
  misfortunes, ib.;
  exile and poverty, 8;
  death of his wife, 9;
  his death, 10, 35;
  his character, ib.;
  his Floridante, 35.

—–­Christoforo (cousin of Torquato), ii. 14.

—–­Torquato: 
  his relation to his epoch, ii. 2;
  to the influences of Italian decadence, 4;
  his father’s position, 6;
  Torquato’s birth, 7;
  the death of his mother, 9, 15;
  what Tasso inherited from his father, 11;
  Bernardo’s treatment of his son, ib.;
  Tasso’s precocity as a child, 12;
  his early teachers, ib.;
  pious ecstasy in his ninth year, 13;
  with his father in Rome, 14;
  his first extant letter, 15;
  his education, 16;
  with his father at the Court of Urbino, 17;
  mode of life here, 18;
  acquires familiarity with Virgil, 19;
  studies and annotates the Divina Commedia, ib.;
  metaphysical studies and religious doubts, 20;
  reaction, ib.;
  the appearance of the Rinaldo, 21;
  leaves Padua for Bologna, ib.;
  Dialogues on the Art of Poetry, 22, 24, 26;
  flight to Modena, 22;
  speculations upon Poetry, 23;
  Tasso’s theory of the Epic, 24;
  he joins the Academy ‘Gli Eterei’ at Padua, as ‘Il Pentito,’ 26;
  enters the service of Luigi d’Este, 27;
  life at the Court of Ferrara, 28;
  Tasso’s love-affairs, 31;
  the problem of his relations with Leonora and Lucrezia
  d’Este, 32 sqq., 48, 51;
  quarrel with Pigna, 34;
  his want of tact, ib.;
  edits his Floridante, 35;
  visit to Paris, ib.;
  the Gottifredo (Gerusalemme Liberata), 35, 38, 42, 48, 50;
  his instructions to Rondinelli, ib.;
  life at the Court of Charles IX., 36;
  rupture with Luigi d’Este, 38;
  enters the service of Alfonso, Duke of Ferrara, ib.;
  renewed relations with Leonora, ib.;
  production and success of Aminta, 39;
  relations with Lucrezia d’Este (Duchess of Urbino), ib.;