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.

U

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 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.