BITONTO.  Pasquale di, one of the assassins of Sarpi, ii. 212.

BLACK garments of Charles V., the, i. 43.

BLACK Pope, the, i. 275.

BLOIS, Treaty of, i. 12.

BOBADILLA, Nicholas, associate of Ignatius Loyola, i. 240;
  his work as a Jesuit in Bavaria, 258.

BOLOGNA and Modena, humors of the conflict between, ii. 304.

BOLOGNESE school of painters, the, ii. 343 sqq.;
  why their paintings are now neglected, 375 sqq.;
  mental condition of Bolognese art, 376.

BONELLI, Michele, nephew of Pius V., i. 147.

BONIFAZIO of Montferrat, Marquis, one of the Paleologi, i. 23.

BORGIA, Francis (Duke of Gandia), third General of the Jesuits, i. 256;
  prevented by Loyola from accepting a Cardinal’s hat, 260.

BORROMEO, Carlo: 
  his character, i. 115;
  a possible successor to Pius IV., 135;
  ruled in Rome by the Jesuits, 142;
  his intimacy with Sarpi, ii. 194.

—–­Federigo, i. 115;
  letter of, forbidding soldiers’ visits to convents, 316 n.

BRANCACCIO, Diana, treachery of, towards the Duchess of Palliano, i. 378;
  her murder, 379.

‘BRAVI,’ maintenance of by Italian nobles, i. 313;
  tales illustrative of, 388 sqq.;
  relations of trust between bravi and foreign Courts, 409.

BRIGANDAGE in Italy, i. 416.

BROWN, Mr. H.F., his researches in the Venetian archives, i. 189 n.

BRUCCIOLI, Antonio, translator of the Bible into Italian, i. 76.

BRUNO, Giordano: 
  his birth, and training as a Dominican, ii. 129;
  early speculative doubts, 130;
  Il Candelajo, 131, 183;
  early studies, 133;
  prosecution for heresy, 134;
  a wandering student, 135;
  at Geneva, 136;
  Toulouse, 137;
  at the Sorbonne, 138;
  the Art of Memory, 139, 154;
  De Umbris Idearum, ib.;
  relations with Henri III., 140;
  Bruno’s person and conversation, 141;
  in England, ib.;
  works printed in London, 142;
  descriptions of London life, ib.;
  opinion of Queen Elizabeth, 143;
  lecturer at Oxford, 144;
  address to the Vice-Chancellor, 146;
  academical opposition, 147;
  the Ash-Wednesday Supper, ib.;
  in the family of Castelnau, 148;
  in Germany, 149;
  Bruno’s opinion of the Reformers, ib.;
  the De Monade and De Triplici Minimo, 150;
  Bruno in a monastery at Frankfort, 151;
  invited to Venice, 153;
  a guest of Mocenigo there, 154;
  his occupations, 156;
  denounced by Mocenigo and imprisoned by the Inquisition, 157;
  the heads of the accusation, 157 sqq.;
  trial, 159;
  recantation, 160;
  estimate of Bruno’s apology, 161;
  his removal to and long imprisonment at Rome, 163;
  his execution, 164;