BRANCACCIO, Diana, treachery of, towards the Duchess of Palliano, i. 378;
  her murder, 379.

‘BRAVI,’ maintenance of by Italian nobles, i. 313;
  tales illustrative of, 388 sqq.;
  relations of trust between bravi and foreign Courts, 409.

BRIGANDAGE in Italy, i. 416.

BROWN, Mr. H.F., his researches in the Venetian archives, i. 189 n.

BRUCCIOLI, Antonio, translator of the Bible into Italian, i. 76.

BRUNO, Giordano: 
  his birth, and training as a Dominican, ii. 129;
  early speculative doubts, 130;
  Il Candelajo, 131, 183;
  early studies, 133;
  prosecution for heresy, 134;
  a wandering student, 135;
  at Geneva, 136;
  Toulouse, 137;
  at the Sorbonne, 138;
  the Art of Memory, 139, 154;
  De Umbris Idearum, ib.;
  relations with Henri III., 140;
  Bruno’s person and conversation, 141;
  in England, ib.;
  works printed in London, 142;
  descriptions of London life, ib.;
  opinion of Queen Elizabeth, 143;
  lecturer at Oxford, 144;
  address to the Vice-Chancellor, 146;
  academical opposition, 147;
  the Ash-Wednesday Supper, ib.;
  in the family of Castelnau, 148;
  in Germany, 149;
  Bruno’s opinion of the Reformers, ib.;
  the De Monade and De Triplici Minimo, 150;
  Bruno in a monastery at Frankfort, 151;
  invited to Venice, 153;
  a guest of Mocenigo there, 154;
  his occupations, 156;
  denounced by Mocenigo and imprisoned by the Inquisition, 157;
  the heads of the accusation, 157 sqq.;
  trial, 159;
  recantation, 160;
  estimate of Bruno’s apology, 161;
  his removal to and long imprisonment at Rome, 163;
  his execution, 164;
  evidence of his martyrdom, 164 sqq.;
  Schoppe’s account, 165;
  details of Bruno’s treatment in Rome, 167;
  the burning at the stake, 167 sq.;
  Bruno a martyr, 168;
  contrast with Tasso, 169;
  Bruno’s mental attitude, 170 sq.;
  his championship of the Copernican system, 172;
  his relation to modern science and philosophy, 173;
  conception of the universe, 173 sqq.;
  his theology, 175;
  the Anima Mundi, 177;
  anticipations of modern thought, 178, 182;
  his want of method, 180;
  the treatise on the Seven Arts, 182;
  Bruno’s literary style, 182 sqq.;
  his death contrasted with that of Sarpi, 239 n.

BRUSANTINI, Count Alessandro (Tassoni’s ’Conte Culagna’), ii. 301, 306.

BUCKET, the Bolognese, ii. 305.

BUONCOMPAGNO, Giacomo, bastard, son of Gregory XIII., i. 150.

—–­Ugo, see GREGORY XIII.

BUONVISI, Lucrezia, story of, i. 330;
  intrigue with Arnolfini, 331;
  murder of her husband, 332;
  Lucrezia suspected of complicity, 334;
  becomes a nun (Sister Umilia), ib.;
  the case against her, 338;
  amours of inmates of her convent, 340;
  Umilia’s intrigue with Samminiati, ib.;
  discovery of their correspondence, 341;
  trial and sentences of the nuns, 344;
  Umilia’s last days, 345.