11;
  Bernardo’s treatment of his son, ib.;
  Tasso’s precocity as a child, 12;
  his early teachers, ib.;
  pious ecstasy in his ninth year, 13;
  with his father in Rome, 14;
  his first extant letter, 15;
  his education, 16;
  with his father at the Court of Urbino, 17;
  mode of life here, 18;
  acquires familiarity with Virgil, 19;
  studies and annotates the Divina Commedia, ib.;
  metaphysical studies and religious doubts, 20;
  reaction, ib.;
  the appearance of the Rinaldo, 21;
  leaves Padua for Bologna, ib.;
  Dialogues on the Art of Poetry, 22, 24, 26;
  flight to Modena, 22;
  speculations upon Poetry, 23;
  Tasso’s theory of the Epic, 24;
  he joins the Academy ‘Gli Eterei’ at Padua, as ‘Il Pentito,’ 26;
  enters the service of Luigi d’Este, 27;
  life at the Court of Ferrara, 28;
  Tasso’s love-affairs, 31;
  the problem of his relations with Leonora and Lucrezia
  d’Este, 32 sqq., 48, 51;
  quarrel with Pigna, 34;
  his want of tact, ib.;
  edits his Floridante, 35;
  visit to Paris, ib.;
  the Gottifredo (Gerusalemme Liberata), 35, 38, 42, 48, 50;
  his instructions to Rondinelli, ib.;
  life at the Court of Charles IX., 36;
  rupture with Luigi d’Este, 38;
  enters the service of Alfonso, Duke of Ferrara, ib.;
  renewed relations with Leonora, ib.;
  production and success of Aminta, 39;
  relations with Lucrezia d’Este (Duchess of Urbino), ib.;
  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.;