MANTUA, raised to the rank of a duchy, i. 27.

MANUZIO, Aldo (the younger), ill-treatment of, in Rome, i. 217 sq.

—–­Paolo: 
  works produced at his press in Rome, i. 220;
  a friend of Chiabrera, ii. 287.

MARCELLUS II., Pope (Marcello Cervini), i. 97, 101.

MARGARET of Austria, one of the arrangers of the Paix des Dames, i. 16.

MARIANAZZO, a robber chief, refusal of pardon by, i. 309.

MARIGNANO, Marquis of (Gian Giacomo Medici), i. 109, 115.

MARINISM, i. 66; ii. 299, 302.

MARINO, Giovanni Battista: 
  his birth and parentage, ii. 260;
  escapades of his youth in Naples, 261;
  at the Court of Carlo Emanuele, 262;
  his life in Turin, ib.;
  at the Court of Maria de’Medici, 263;
  successful publication of the Adone, 264;
  return to Naples, 265;
  critique of the Adone, 266 sq.;
  the Epic of Voluptuousness, 268;
  its effeminate sensuality, 268 sq.;
  cynical hypocrisy, 270;
  the character of Adonis, 272;
  ugliness and discord, 273;
  Marino’s poetic gifts, 274;
  great variety of episodes, 276;
  unity of theme, 277;
  purity of poetic style rarely attained, 279;
  false rhetoric, 280;
  Marinism, 281;
  verbal fireworks, 282;
  Marino’s real inadequacy, 285;
  the Pianto d’Italia, 286;
  comparison of Marino with Chiabrera, 296.

MARTELLI, Giovan Battista, a bravo attendant on
  Lorenzino de’Medici, i. 396.

MARTUCCIA, a notorious Roman courtesan, i. 375.

MASANIELLO, cause of the rising of, in Naples, i. 49.

MASSACRE of S. Bartholomew, i. 55, 149.

MASSIMI, Eufrosina (second wife of Lelio Massimi), the
  murder of, i. 354 sq.

—–­Lelio:  violent deaths of the five sons whom he cursed, i. 355 sq.

‘MATERIE Beneficiarie, Delle,’ Sarpi’s, ii. 219.

MAXIMILIAN, Emperor, allied against Venice with Louis XII., i. 12.

MAZZOLA, Francesco (Il Parmigianino), i. 42.

MEDA, Caterina da (waiting-woman of Virginia de Leyva), murder of, i. 322.

MEDIAEVAL habits, survival of, in Italy in the sixteenth century, i. 306.

MEDICI, de’, family of: 
  their advances towards Despotism, i. 10;
  violent deaths of members, 382 sqq.;
  eleven murdered in a half-century, 387.

—–­Alessandro, Duke of Florence, i. 19, 46, 388.

—–­Cosimo, i. 46;
  made Grand Duke of Tuscany, 47.

—–­Giovanni, i. 11.

—–­Ippolito, i. 19.

—–­Lorenzino, assassination of his cousin Alessandro
  (Duke of Florence) by, i. 388;
  details of his own murder, 389 sqq.

—–­Lorenzo, i. 10.

—–­Maria, the Court of, as Regent of France, ii. 263.

—–­Piero, i. 10.