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VALDES, Juan: 
  his work On the Benefits of Christ’s Death, i. 76.

VALORI, Baccio, i. 33.

VASTO, Marquis of, i. 25.

VENETIAN ambassadors’ despatches cited: 
  on the manners of the Roman Court in 1565, i. 142, 147;
  the expulsion of prostitutes from Rome, 146.

VENICE, the Republic of, its possessions in the fifteenth century, i. 9;
  relations with Spain in 1530, 45;
  rise of a contempt for commerce in, 49;
  the constitution of its Holy Office, 190;
  Concordat with Clement VIII., 193;
  Tasso at, ii. 19 sq.;
  its condition in Sarpi’s youth, 185;
  political indifference of its aristocracy, 186;
  put under interdict by Paul V., 198.

VENIERO, Maffeo, on Tasso’s mental malady, ii. 52, 63.

VERONA, Peter of (Peter Martyr), Italian Dominican Saint
  of the Inquisition, i. 161.

VERVINS, the Treaty of, i. 48, 56.

VETTORI, Francesco, i. 33.

VIRGIL, Tasso’s admiration of, ii. 25;
  translations and adaptations from, 98.

VISCONTI, the dynasty of, i. 8.

—–­Valentina, grandmother of Louis XII. of France, i. 8.

VITELLI, Alessandro, i. 46.

VITELLOZZI, Vitellozzo, influence of, in the reform of
  Church music, ii. 325.

VITI, Michele, one of the assassins of Sarpi, ii. 212.

‘VOCERO,’ the, i. 332.

VOLTERRA, Bebo da, associate of Bibboni in the murder of
  Lorenzino de’Medici, i. 390 sqq.

VULGATE, the: 
  results of its being declared inviolable, i. 210.

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WALDENSIANS in Calabria, the, i. 188.

WITCHCRAFT, chiefly confined to the mountain regions of Italy, i. 425;
  mainly used as a weapon of malice, ib.;
  details of the sorcery practised by Giacomo Centini, 425 sqq.

WIFE-MURDERS in Italy in the sixteenth century, i. 380 sq., 385.

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XAVIER, Francis, associate of Ignatius Loyola, i. 239;
  his work as a Jesuit in Portugal, 256;
  his mission to the Indies, 260.

XIMENES, Cardinal, as Inquisitor General, i. 182.

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ZANETTI, Guido, delivered over to the Roman Inquisition, i. 145.