—–­Vittoria, i. 77;
  letter to, from Tasso in his childhood, ii. 15.

COMANDINO, Federigo, Tasso’s teacher, ii. 19.

COMPANY OF JESUS, see JESUITS.

CONCLAVES, external influences on, in the election of Popes, i. 134.

CONFEDERATION between Clement VII. and Charles V., i. 31.

‘CONFIRMATIONS,’ Fra Fulgenzio’s, ii. 201.

CONSERVATISM and Liberalism, necessary contest between, ii. 386.

‘CONSIDERATIONS on the Censures,’ Sarpi’s, ii. 201.

CONSTANCE, Council of, i. 92.

CONTARINI, Gasparo:  his negotiations between Catholics
  and Protestants, i. 30;
  treatment of his writings by Inquisitors, 31;
  suspected of heterodoxy, 72;
  intimacy with Gaetano di Thiene, 76;
  his concessions to the Reformers repudiated by the Curia, 78;
  memorial on ecclesiastical abuses, 79.

—–­Simeone:  his account of a plague at Savigliano, i. 419 sq.

‘CONTRIBUTIONS of the Clergy, Discourse upon the,’ Sarpi’s, ii. 221.

COPERNICAN system, the, Bruno’s championship of, ii. 172.

COREGLIA, one of the assassins of Lelio Buonvisi, i. 333 sqq.

CORONATION of Charles V., description of, i. 34 sqq.;
  notable people present at, 39 sqq.

CORSAIRS, Tunisian and Algerian, raids of, on Italian coasts, i. 417.

COSCIA, Giangiacopo, guardian of Tasso’s sister, ii. 16.

COSIMO I. of Tuscany, the rule of, i. 46, 47.

COSTANTINI, Antonio, Tasso’s last letter written to, ii. 77;
  sonnet on the poet, 78.

COTERIES, religious, in Rome, Venice, Naples, i. 75 sqq.

COUNTER-REFORMATION:  its intellectual and moral character, i. 63;
  the term defined, 64 n.;
  decline of Renaissance impulse, 65;
  criticism and formalism in Italy, ib.;
  contrast with the development of other European races, 66;
  transition to the Catholic Revival, 67;
  attitudes of Italians towards the German Reformation, 71;
  free-thinkers, 73;
  the Oratory of Divine Love, 76;
  the Moderate Reformers, ib.;
  Gasparo Contarini, 78;
  new Religious Orders, 79;
  the Council of Trent, 97, 119;
  Tridentine Reforms, 107, 134;
  asceticism fashionable in Rome, 108, 142;
  active hostilities against Protestantism, 148;
  the new spirit of Roman polity, 149 sqq.;
  work of the Inquisition, 159 sqq.;
  the Index, 195 sqq.;
  twofold aim of Papal policy, 226;
  the Jesuits, 229 sqq.;
  an estimate of the results of the Reformation
  and of the Counter-Reformation, ii. 385 sqq.

COURIERS, daily post of, between the Council of Trent
  and the Vatican, i. 121.

COURT life in Italy, i. 20, 37, 41, 51; ii. 17, 29, 65, 201, 251.

CRIMES of violence, in Italy in the sixteenth century, i. 304 sqq.