RICEI, Ottavia, attempted murder of, by Gianpaolo Osio, i. 323 sqq.

‘RICERCARI,’ employment of, in Italian music, ii. 343.

RINALDO, Tasso’s, first appearance of, ii. 22;
  its preface, 82;
  its subject-matter, 84;
  its religious motive, 86;
  its style, 86 sqq.

RODRIGUEZ d’Azevedo, Simon, associate of Ignatius Loyola, i. 240;
  his work as a Jesuit in Portugal, 256, 262.

ROMAN University, the, degraded condition of, in the sixteenth
  century, i. 216.

ROME, fluctuating population of, i. 137;
  eleemosynary paupers, 139;
  reform of Roman manners after the Council of Trent, 141;
  expulsion of prostitutes, 146;
  Roman society in Gregory XIII.’s reign, 152;
  the headquarters of Catholicism, ii. 397;
  relations with the Counter-Reformation, 398;
  the complicated correlation of Italians with Papal Rome, 399;
  the capital of a regenerated people, 408.

RONDINELLI, Ercole, Tasso’s instructions to, in regard to his MSS., ii. 35.

ROSSI, Bastiano de’, a critic of the Gerusalemme Liberata, ii. 72.

—–­Porzia de’ (mother of Torquato Tasso): 
  her parentage, ii. 5, 7;
  her marriage, 7;
  her death, probably by poison, 9;
  her character, 12;
  Torquato’s love for her, 15.

—–­Vittorio de’: 
  his description of the ill-treatment of Aldo Manuzio in Rome, i. 217 sq.

ROVERE, Francesco della (Duke of Urbino), account of, i. 36.

RUBBIERA, a fief of the Empire, i. 40.

RUSKIN, Mr., on the cause of the decline of Venice, i. 423 n.;
  invectives of, against Domenichino’s work, ii. 359.

S

SACRED Palace, the Master of the: 
  censor of books in Rome, i. 201.

SALMERON, Alfonzo, associate of Ignatius Loyola, i. 240;
  in Naples and Sicily, 254.

SALUZZO ceded to Savoy, i. 56.

SALVIATI, Leonardo, a critic of the Gerusalemme Liberata, ii. 72.

SAMMINIATI, Tommaso, intrigue and correspondence of, with
  Sister Umilia (Lucrezia Buonvisi), i. 341 sqq.;
  banished from Lucca, 344.

S. ANNA, the hospital of, Tasso’s confinement at, ii. 66 sqq.

SAN BENITO, the costume of persons condemned by the Inquisition, i. 177.

SANSEVERINO, Amerigo, a friend of Bernardo Tasso, ii. 14.

—–­Ferrante di, Prince of Salerno, i. 38; ii. 6 sqq.

SANTA CROCE, Ersilia di, first wife of Francesco Cenci, i. 347.

SANVITALE, Eleonora, Tasso’s love-affair with, ii. 48.

SARDINIA, the island of, a Spanish province, i. 45.