—–­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.

SARPI, Fra Paolo: 
  his birth and parentage, ii. 185;
  his position in the history of Venice, 186;
  his physical constitution, 189;
  moral temperament, 190;
  mental perspicacity, 191;
  discoveries in magnetism and optics, 192;
  studies and conversation, 193;
  early entry into the Order of the Servites, ib.;
  his English type of character, 194;
  denounced to the Inquisition, 195;
  his independent attitude, 196;
  his great love for Venice, 197;
  the interdict of 1606, 198;
  Sarpi’s defence of Venice against the Jesuits, 199 sqq.;
  pamphlet warfare, 201;
  importance of this episode, 202;
  Sarpi’s theory of Church and State, 203;
  boldness of his views, 205;
  compromise of the quarrel of the interdict, ib.;
  Sarpi’s relations with Fra Fulgenzio, 207;
  Sarpi warned by Schoppe of danger to his life, 208;
  attacked by assassins, 209;
  the Stilus Romanae Curiae, 211;
  history of the assassins, 212;
  complicity of the Papal Court, 213;
  other attempts on Sarpi’s life, 214 sq.;
  his opinion of the instigators, 216;
  his so called heresy, 218;
  his work as Theologian to the Republic, 219;
  his minor writings, 221;
  his opposition to Papal Supremacy, ib.;