‘ACTS of Faith,’ i. 107, 176, 187.

ADMINISTRATOR, the (Jesuit functionary), i. 273.

‘ADONE,’ Marino’s: 
  its publication, ii. 264;
  critique of the poem, 266 sqq.

ALBANI, Francesco, Bolognese painter, ii. 355, 358.

ALEXANDER VI., Pope, parallel between, and Pope Paul IV., i. 106.

ALFONSO II., Duke of Ferrara: 
  sketch of his Court, ii. 28 sqq.;
  his second marriage, 30;
  treatment of Tasso, 38, 51, 53, 58, 60 sqq.;
  his third marriage, 66;
  estimate of the reasons why he imprisoned Tasso, 66 sqq.

ALFONSO the Magnanimous: 
  arrangements under his will, i. 4.

ALIDOSI, Cardinal Francesco, murder of, i. 36.

ALLEGORY, hypocrisy of the, exemplified in Tasso, ii. 44;
  in Marino, 272;
  in Ortensi’s moral interpretations of Bandello’s Novelle, 272 n.

ALTEMPS, Cardinal d’ (Mark of Hohen Ems), legate at Trent, i. 119 n.

ALVA, Duke of, defeat of the Duke of Guise by, i. 103.

‘AMADIS of Gaul,’ the favorite book of Loyola in his youth, i. 232.

AMIAS, Beatrice, mother of Francesco Cenci, i. 346.

‘AMINTA,’ Tasso’s pastoral drama, first production of, ii. 39;
  its style, 114.

ANGELUZZO, Giovanni, Tasso’s first teacher, ii. 12.

ANIMA Mundi, Bruno’s doctrine of, ii. 177.

ANTONIANO, a censor of the Gerusalemme Liberata, ii. 43.

—–­Silvio, a boy improvvisatore, anecdote of, ii. 328.

AQUAVIVA, the fifth General of the Jesuits, i. 248.

AQUITAINE, Duke of, Guercino’s painting of in Bologna, ii. 367.

ARAGONESE Dynasty, the, in Italy, i. 4.

ARBUES, Peter, Saint of the Inquisition in Aragon, i. 161, 178.

ARETINO, Pietro, i. 42, 70;
  satire of on Paul IV., 108.

‘ARIE Divote,’ Palestrina’s, ii. 335.

ARISTOTLE’S Axiom on Taste, ii. 371, 374.

ARMADA, Spanish, i. 149.

ARMI, Lodovico dall’, a bravo of noble family, i. 409;
  accredited at Venice as Henry VIII.’s ‘Colonel,’ 410;
  his career of secret diplomacy, 411;
  negotiations between Lord Wriothesley and Venice regarding
  the ban issued against him, 412;
  his downfall, 413;
  personal appearance, 414;
  execution, 415.

ARNOLFINI, Massimiliano, paramour of Lucrezia Buonvisi, i. 331;
  procures the assassination of her husband, 332;
  flight from justice, 332;
  outlawed, 336;
  his wanderings and wretched end, 339.

ART of Memory, Bruno’s, ii. 139.

ART of Poetry, Tasso’s Dialogues on the, ii. 22, 24;
  influence of its theory on Tasso’s own work, 25.

ASSISTANTS, the (Jesuit functionaries), i. 273.

ASTORGA, Marquis of, i. 22.

AURORA, the Ludovisi fresco of, ii. 368.