his letters to Leonora, 41;
  his triumphant career, ib.;
  submits the Gerusalemme to seven censors, 43;
  their criticisms, ib.;
  literary annoyances, 44;
  discontent with Ferrara, 45;
  Tasso’s sense of his importance, ib.;
  the beginning of his ruin, 46;
  he courts the Medici, 47;
  action of his enemies at Ferrara, 48;
  doubts as to his sanity, 49;
  his dread of the Inquisition, ib.;
  persecution by the courtiers, 50;
  revelation of his love affairs by Maddalo de’Frecci, 51;
  Tasso’s fear of being poisoned, ib.;
  outbreak of mental malady, 52;
  temporary imprisonment, ib.;
  estimate of the hypothesis that Tasso feigned madness, 53;
  his escape from the Convent of S. Francis, 54;
  with his sister at Sorrento, 55;
  hankering after Ferrara, 56;
  his attachment to the House of Este, 57;
  terms on which he is received back, 58;
  second flight from Ferrara, 61;
  at Venice, Urbino, Turin, 63;
  ‘Omero Fuggiguerra,’ 64;
  recall to Ferrara, 65;
  imprisoned at S. Anna, 66;
  reasons for his arrest, 67;
  nature of his malady, 69;
  life in the hospital, 71;
  release and wanderings, 73;
  the Torrismondo, ib.;
  work on the Gerusalemme Conquistata and
  the Sette Giornate, 75;
  last years at Naples and Rome, 76;
  at S. Onofrio, 76;
  death, 78;
  imaginary Tassos, 79;
  condition of romantic and heroic poetry in Tasso’s youth, 80;
  his first essay in poetry, 81;
  the preface to Rinaldo, 82;
  subject-matter of the poem, 84;
  its religious motive, 86;
  Latinity of diction, ib.;
  weak points of style, 88;
  lyrism and idyll, 89;
  subject of the Gerusalemme Liberata, 92;
  its romance, 94;
  imitation of Virgil, 97;
  of Dante, 97, 99;
  rhetorical artificiality, 100;
  sonorous verses, 101;
  oratorical dexterity, 102;
  similes and metaphors, ib.;
  majestic simplicity, 104;
  the heroine, 106;
  Tasso, the poet of Sentiment, 108;
  the Non so che, 109 sq.;
  Sofronia, Erminia, Clorinda, 109 sqq.;
  the Dialogues and the tragedy Torrismondo, 113;
  the Gerusalemme Conquistata and
  Le Sette Giornate, 115, 124;
  personal appearance of Tasso, 115;
  general survey of his character, 116 sqq.;
  his relation to his age, 120;
  his mental attitude, 122;
  his native genius, 124.

TASSONI, Alessandro: 
  his birth, ii. 297;
  treatment by Carlo Emmanuele, 298;
  his independent spirit, ib.;
  aim at originality of thought, 299;
  his criticism of Dante and Petrarch, 300;
  the Secchia Rapita: 
    its origin and motive, 301;
    its circulation in manuscript