Renaissance in Italy Volume VI Part 30

STERILITY of Protestantism, ii. 401.

STROZZI, Filippo, i. 46.

---Piero, i. 47.

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Ta.s.sO, Bernardo (father of Torquato), i. 38; his birth and parentage, ii. 5; the _Amadigi_, 7, 11, 18, 35; his youth and marriage, 7; misfortunes, _ib._; exile and poverty, 8; death of his wife, 9; his death, 10, 35; his character, _ib._; his _Floridante_, 35.

---Christoforo (cousin of Torquato), ii. 14.

---Torquato: his relation to his epoch, ii. 2; to the influences of Italian decadence, 4; his father's position, 6; Torquato's birth, 7; the death of his mother, 9, 15; what Ta.s.so inherited from his father, 11; Bernardo's treatment of his son, _ib._; Ta.s.so'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; Ta.s.so's theory of the Epic, 24; he joins the Academy 'Gli Eterei' at Padua, as 'Il Pent.i.to,' 26; enters the service of Luigi d'Este, 27; life at the Court of Ferrara, 28; Ta.s.so'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 (d.u.c.h.ess 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; Ta.s.so'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 Maddal de'Frecci, 51; Ta.s.so's fear of being poisoned, _ib._; outbreak of mental malady, 52; temporary imprisonment, _ib._; estimate of the hypothesis that Ta.s.so 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._; work on the _Gerusalemme Conquistata_ and the _Sette Giornate_, 75; last years at Naples and Rome, 76; at S. Onofrio, 76; death, 78; imaginary Ta.s.sos, 79; condition of romantic and heroic poetry in Ta.s.so's youth, 80; his first essay in poetry, 81; the preface to _Rinaldo_, 82; subject-matter of the poem, 84; its religious motive, 86; Latinity of diction, _ib._; weak points of style, 88; lyrism and idyll, 89; subject of the _Gerusalemme Liberata_, 92; its romance, 94; imitation of Virgil, 97; of Dante, 97, 99; rhetorical artificiality, 100; sonorous verses, 101; oratorical dexterity, 102; similes and metaphors, _ib._; majestic simplicity, 104; the heroine, 106; Ta.s.so, the poet of Sentiment, 108; the _Non so che_, 109 _sq._; Sofronia, Erminia, Clorinda, 109 _sqq._; the Dialogues and the tragedy _Torrismondo_, 113; the _Gerusalemme Conquistata_ and _Le Sette Giornate_, 115, 124; personal appearance of Ta.s.so, 115; general survey of his character, 116 _sqq._; his relation to his age, 120; his mental att.i.tude, 122; his native genius, 124.

Ta.s.sONI, Alessandro: his birth, ii. 297; treatment by Carlo Emmanuele, 298; his independent spirit, _ib._; aim at originality of thought, 299; his criticism of Dante and Petrarch, 300; the _Secchia Rapita_: its origin and motive, 301; its circulation in ma.n.u.script copies, 302; Ta.s.soni the inventor of heroico-comic poetry, 303; humor and sarcasm in Italian munic.i.p.al wars, 304; the episode of the Bolognese bucket, _ib._; irony of the _Secchia Rapita_, 306; method of Ta.s.soni's art, _ib._; ridicule of contemporary poets, 307; satire and parody, 308; French imitators of Ta.s.so, 310; episodes of pure poetry, 311; sustained ant.i.thesis between poetry and melodiously-worded slang, 312; Ta.s.soni's rank as a literary artist, _ib._

TAXATION, the methods of, adopted by Spanish Viceroys in Italy, i. 49.

TENEBROSI, the (school of painters), ii. 365.

TESTI, Fulvio, Modenese poet, ii. 314.

TEUTONIC tribes, relations of with the Italians, ii. 393; unreconciled antagonisms, 394; divergence, 395; the Church, the battle-field of Renaissance and Reformation, 395.

THEATINES, foundation of the Order of, i. 79.

THEORY, Italian love of, in Ta.s.so's time, ii. 25; critique of Ta.s.so's theory of poetry, 26, 42.

THIENE, Gaetano di, founder of the Theatines, i. 76.

THIRTY Divine Attributes, Bruno's doctrine of, ii. 139.

TINTORETTO'S picture of S. Agnes, ii. 361.

t.i.tIAN, portrait of Charles V. by, i. 42.

TOLEDO, Don Pietro di, Viceroy of Naples, i. 38; ii. 7.

---Francesco da, confessor of Gregory XIII., i. 150.

TORQUEMADA, the Spanish Inquisitor, i. 173, 179, 181.

TORRE, Delia, the family of, ancestors, of the Ta.s.si, ii. 5.

'TORRISMONDO,' Ta.s.so's tragedy of, ii. 73, 113 _sq._

TORTURE, cases of witnesses put to, i. 333 _sqq._

TOUCH, the sense of, Marino's praises of, ii. 270.

TOULOUSE, power of the Inquisition in, ii. 137.

TRAGIC narratives circulated in ma.n.u.script in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, i. 372.

'TREATISE on the Inquisition,' Sarpi's, ii. 220.

---'on the Interdict,' Sarpi's, ii. 201.

TREMAZZI, Ambrogio: his own report of how he wrought the murder of Troilo Orsini, i. 405 _sqq._; his notions about his due reward, 406.

TRENT, Council of: Indiction of, by Paul III., i. 97; numbers of its members, 97 _n._, 119 _n._; diverse objects of the Spanish, French, and German representatives, 98, 122; the articles which it confirmed, 98; method of procedure, 99, 120; the Council transferred to Bologna, 100; Paul IV.'s measures of ecclesiastical reform, 107; the Council's decrees actually settled in the four Courts, 112, 119; its organization by Pius IV., 118 _sqq._; inauspicious commencement, 119; the privileges of the Papal legates, 120; daily post of couriers to the Vatican, 121; arts of the Roman Curia, 122; Spanish, French, Imperial Opposition, 123; clerical celibacy and Communion under both forms, _ib._; packing the Council with Italian bishops, 125; the interests of the Gallican Church, 126; interference of the Emperor Ferdinand, _ib._; confusion in the Council, 126 _n._; envoys to France and the Emperor, 127; cajoleries and menaces, 129; action of the Court of Spain, 130; firmness of the Spanish bishops, 130 _n._; Papal Supremacy decreed, 131; reservation in the Papal Bull of ratification, 131 _and note_; Tridentine Profession of Faith (Creed of Pius V.), 148.

TUSCANY, creation of the Grand Duchy of, i. 47.

TWO SICILIES, the kingdom of the, i. 45.

'TYRANNY of the kiss,' the, exemplified in the _Rinaldo_, ii. 90; in the _Pastor Fido_, 255; in the _Adone_, 272.

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UNIVERSAL Monarchy, end of the belief in, i. 34.

UNIVERSE, Bruno's conception of the, ii. 173 _sqq._

UNIVERSITIES, Italian, i. 51.

'UNTORI, La Peste degli,' i. 421; trial of the _Untoti_, 421.

URBAN VIII., fantastic attempt made against the life of, i. 425 _sq._

URBINO, the Court of, life at, ii. 17 _sq._

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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 amba.s.sadors' despatches cited: on the manners of the Roman Court in 1565, i. 142, 147; the expulsion of prost.i.tutes 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 const.i.tution of its Holy Office, 190; Concordat with Clement VIII., 193; Ta.s.so 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 Ta.s.so's mental malady, ii. 52, 63.

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