AQUITAINE, Duke of, Guercino’s painting of in Bologna, ii. 367.

ARAGONESE Dynasty, the, in Italy, i. 4.

ARBUES, Peter, Saint of the Inquisition in Aragon, i. 161, 178.

ARETINO, Pietro, i. 42, 70;
  satire of on Paul IV., 108.

‘ARIE Divote,’ Palestrina’s, ii. 335.

ARISTOTLE’S Axiom on Taste, ii. 371, 374.

ARMADA, Spanish, i. 149.

ARMI, Lodovico dall’, a bravo of noble family, i. 409;
  accredited at Venice as Henry VIII.’s ‘Colonel,’ 410;
  his career of secret diplomacy, 411;
  negotiations between Lord Wriothesley and Venice regarding
  the ban issued against him, 412;
  his downfall, 413;
  personal appearance, 414;
  execution, 415.

ARNOLFINI, Massimiliano, paramour of Lucrezia Buonvisi, i. 331;
  procures the assassination of her husband, 332;
  flight from justice, 332;
  outlawed, 336;
  his wanderings and wretched end, 339.

ART of Memory, Bruno’s, ii. 139.

ART of Poetry, Tasso’s Dialogues on the, ii. 22, 24;
  influence of its theory on Tasso’s own work, 25.

ASSISTANTS, the (Jesuit functionaries), i. 273.

ASTORGA, Marquis of, i. 22.

AURORA, the Ludovisi fresco of, ii. 368.

AVILA, Don Luigi d’, i. 128.

B

BAGLIONI, Malatesta, i. 46.

BAINI’S Life of Palestrina, ii. 316 sqq.

BALBI, Cesare, on Italian decadence, ii. 3.

BANDITTI, tales illustrative of, i. 388 sqq.

‘BANDO’ (of outlawry), recitation of the terms of a, i. 328.

BARBIERI, Giovanni Francesco, see IL GUERCINO.

BARCELONA, the Treaty of, i. 15.

BARNABITES, Order of the: 
  their foundation, i. 80.

BAROCCIO, Federigo, ii. 349.

BAROZZA, a Venetian courtezan, i. 394, 396.

BASEL, Council of, i. 94.

BEARD, unshorn, worn in sign of mourning, i. 36.

BEDELL, William (Bishop of Kilmore), on Fra Paolo and
  Fra Fulgenzio, ii. 231.

BEDMAR’S conspiracy, ii. 186.

BELLARMINO, Cardinal, on the inviolability of the Vulgate, i. 212;
  relations of, with Fra Paolo Sarpi, ii. 213, 222;
  his censure of the Pastor Fido, 251.

BELRIGUARDO, the villa of, Tasso at, ii. 53.

BEMBO, Pietro, i. 30, 41.

BENDEDEI, Taddea, wife of Guarini, ii. 245.

BENTIVOGLI, the semi-royal offspring of King Enzo of Sardinia, ii. 304.

BIBBONI, Cecco: 
  his account of how he murdered Lorenzino de’Medici, i. 488 sqq.;
  his associate, Bebo, details of the life of a bravo, 389;
  tracking an outlaw, 392;
  the wages of a tyrannicide, 394;
  the bravo’s patient watching, 395;
  the murder, 397;
  flight of the assassins, 399;
  their reception by Count Collalto, 401;
  they seek refuge at the Spanish embassy, 402;
  protected by Charles V.’s orders, 403;
  conveyed to Pisa, 404;
  well provided for their future life, ib.