MURETUS: 
  his difficulties as a professor in Rome, i. 214, 216.

MURTOLA, Gasparo, attempted assassination of the poet Marino by, ii. 263.

MUSIC, Italian, decadence of, in the sixteenth century, ii. 315;
  foreign musicians in Rome, 316;
  the contrapuntal style, 317;
  licenses allowed to performers, ib.;
  the medleys prepared by composers, ib.;
  disgraceful condition of Church music, 318;
  orchestral ricercari, 320 n.;
  Savonarola’s opinion of the Church music of his time, ib.;
  musical aptitude of the people, 322;
  lack of a controlling element of correct taste, ib.;
  advent of Palestrina, ib.;
  the Congregation for the Reform of Music, 325;
  rise of the Oratorio, 334;
  music in England in the sixteenth century, 338;
  rise of the Opera, 340.

MUSICIANS, Italian, of the seventeenth cenutry, ii. 243.

N

NAPLES, kingdom of, separated from Sicily, i. 4;
  its extent, ib.;
  in the hands of Spain, 12.

NASSAU, Count of, i. 38.

NATURE, the study of, among Italian philosophers, ii. 128.

NEPOTISM, Papal: 
  the Caraffas, i. 104 sq.;
  the Borromeos, 115;
  the Ghislieri, 147;
  Gregory XIII.’s relatives, 151;
  estimate of the incomes of Papal nephews, 156 sqq.

NEW Christians, the, in Spain, see JEWS.

NOBILI, Flaminio de’, a censor of the Gerusalemme Liberata, ii. 43.

NOLA, survival of Greek customs in, ii. 132.

NOVICES, Jesuit, position of, i. 271.

NUNNERIES, state of, in the sixteenth century, i. 315 sqq.

O

OMERO, Fuggiguerra, sobriquet chosen by Tasso in his wanderings, ii. 64.

OPERA, rise of the, in Florence, ii. 341.

ORANGE, Prince of, leader of the Spanish army in
  the siege of Florence, i. 18.

ORATORIO (Musical), the: 
  its origins in Rome, ii. 334.

ORATORY of Divine Love, the, i. 76.

ORSINI, the, reduced to submission to the Popes, i. 7.

—–­Paolo Giordano (Duke of Bracciano): 
  his passion for Vittoria Accoramboni, i. 358;
  his gigantic stature and corpulence, 359;
  poisons his first wife, 360;
  treatment by Sixtus V., 363;
  secret marriage with Vittoria, 364;
  renounces the marriage, 365;
  ratifies the union by public marriage, 366;
  flight from Rome, ib.: 
  death of the Duke, 367.

—–­Prince Lodovico: 
  procures the murder of Vittoria Accoramboni and her brother, i. 368;
  siege of his palace, 370;
  his violent death, 371.

—–­Troilo, lover of the Duchess of Bracciano, i. 360;
  details of his murder by Ambrogio Tremazzi, 405 sqq.