CENCI, Beatrice, examination of the legend of, i. 351 sqq.

—–­Francesco:  bastard son of Cristoforo Cenci, i. 346;
  his early life, ib.;
  disgraceful charges against him, 348;
  compounds by heavy money payment for his crimes, ib.;
  violent deaths of his sons, ib.;
  severity towards his children, 349;
  his assassination procured by his wife and three children, 350;
  the murderers denounced, ib.;
  their trial and punishments, 351.

—–­Msgr.  Christoforo, father of Francesco Cenci, i. 346.

CENTINI, Giacomo:  story of his attempts by sorcery on the
  life of Urban VIII., i. 425.

CESI, Msgr., invites Tasso to Bologna, ii. 22.

CHARLES V., his compact with Clement VII., i. 15;
  Emperor Elect, 16;
  relations with Andrea Doria, 17;
  at Genoa, 18;
  his journey to Bologna, 20;
  his reception there, 22;
  the meeting with Clement, 23;
  mustering of Italian princes, 25;
  negotiations on Italian affairs, 26 sqq.;
  a treaty of peace signed, 31;
  the difficulty with Florence, 32;
  the question of the two crowns, 34 sqq.;
  description of the coronation, 37 sqq.;
  the events that followed, 39 sqq.;
  the net results of Charles’s administration of Italian affairs, 45 sqq.;
  his relations with Paul III., 100;
  his abdication, 102;
  he protects the assassins of Lorenzino de’Medici, 403.

CHARLES VIII., of France:  his invasion of Italy, i. 8.

CHIABRERA, Gabriello:  his birth, ii. 287;
  educated by the Jesuits, ib.;
  his youth, 288;
  the occupations of a long life, 289;
  courtliness, 290;
  ode to Cesare d’Este, 291;
  Chiabrera’s aim to remodel Italian poetry on a Greek pattern. 292 sqq.;
  would-be Pindaric flights, 296;
  comparison with Marino and Tassoni, ib.

CIOTTO, Giambattista, relations of, with Giordano Bruno, ii. 152 sqq.

CISNEROS, Garcia de, author of a work which suggested
  S. Ignatius’s Exercitia, i. 236.

CLEMENT VII.:  a prisoner in S. Angelo, i. 14;
  compact with Charles V., 15;
  their meeting at Bologna, 16 sqq.;
  negotiations with the Emperor Elect, 26 sqq.;
  peace signed, 31.

CLEMENT VIII.:  his Concordat with Venice, i. 193;
  Index of Prohibited Books issued by him, ib.;
  his rules for the censorship of books, 198 sqq.;
  he confers a pension on Tasso, ii. 76.

CLOUGH, Mr., lines of, on ‘Christianized’ monuments in Papal Rome, i. 154.

COADJUTORS, Temporal and Spiritual (Jesuit grades), i. 271.

COLLALTO, Count Salici da, patron of the bravo Bibboni, i. 400.

COLONNA, the, reduced to submission to the Popes, i. 7.

—–­Vespasiano, Duke of Palliano, i. 77.