[Footnote 239:  Twenty millions of years is of course a mere symbol, x or y.]

INDEX.

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ACADEMIES, Italian, the flourishing time of, i. 52.

ACCIAIUOLI, Roberto, i. 33.

ACCOLTI, Benedetto, conspirator against Pius IV., i. 132.

ACCORAMBONI, Claudio (father of Vittoria), i. 356.

—–­Marcello (brother of Vittoria): 
  intrigues for the marriage of his sister with the
  Duke of Bracciano, i. 358 sqq.;
  procures the murder of her husband, 362;
  employs a Greek enchantress to brew love-philters, 365;
  his death, 372.

—–­Tarquinia (mother of Vittoria), i. 356.

—–­Vittoria, the story of, i. 355 sqq.;
  her birth and parentage, 356;
  marriage with Felice Peretti, 357;
  intrigue with the Duke of Bracciano, 360;
  the murder of her husband, 362;
  her marriage with Bracciano, 364;
  annulled by the Pope, 364, 366;
  the union renounced by the Duke, 365;
  put on trial for the murder of Peretti, ib.;
  their union publicly ratified by the Duke, 366;
  flight from Rome, ib.;
  death of Bracciano, 367;
  her murder procured by Lodovico Orsini, 369.

‘ACTS of Faith,’ i. 107, 176, 187.

ADMINISTRATOR, the (Jesuit functionary), i. 273.

‘ADONE,’ Marino’s: 
  its publication, ii. 264;
  critique of the poem, 266 sqq.

ALBANI, Francesco, Bolognese painter, ii. 355, 358.

ALEXANDER VI., Pope, parallel between, and Pope Paul IV., i. 106.

ALFONSO II., Duke of Ferrara: 
  sketch of his Court, ii. 28 sqq.;
  his second marriage, 30;
  treatment of Tasso, 38, 51, 53, 58, 60 sqq.;
  his third marriage, 66;
  estimate of the reasons why he imprisoned Tasso, 66 sqq.

ALFONSO the Magnanimous: 
  arrangements under his will, i. 4.

ALIDOSI, Cardinal Francesco, murder of, i. 36.

ALLEGORY, hypocrisy of the, exemplified in Tasso, ii. 44;
  in Marino, 272;
  in Ortensi’s moral interpretations of Bandello’s Novelle, 272 n.

ALTEMPS, Cardinal d’ (Mark of Hohen Ems), legate at Trent, i. 119 n.

ALVA, Duke of, defeat of the Duke of Guise by, i. 103.

‘AMADIS of Gaul,’ the favorite book of Loyola in his youth, i. 232.

AMIAS, Beatrice, mother of Francesco Cenci, i. 346.

‘AMINTA,’ Tasso’s pastoral drama, first production of, ii. 39;
  its style, 114.

ANGELUZZO, Giovanni, Tasso’s first teacher, ii. 12.

ANIMA Mundi, Bruno’s doctrine of, ii. 177.

ANTONIANO, a censor of the Gerusalemme Liberata, ii. 43.

—–­Silvio, a boy improvvisatore, anecdote of, ii. 328.

AQUAVIVA, the fifth General of the Jesuits, i. 248.