planets then known (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn), in
addition to the Sun and Moon, which were until long afterwards regarded
as planets. “The sun, the moon and the five planets were always to be
found within a region of the sky extending about 8° on each side of the
ecliptic. This strip of the celestial sphere was called the Zodiac,
because the constellations in it were (with one exception) named after
living things (Greek ζῷον, an animal); it was divided into twelve equal
parts, the Signs of the Zodiac, through one of which the sun passed
every month, so that the position of the sun at any time could be
roughly described by stating in what ‘sign’ it was.” Arthur Berry’s
“Short History of Astronomy” (London, 1898), p. 13.
Note 478 page 305. Castiglione here follows that version of the Hercules
myth which represents the hero, tormented by the poisoned shirt sent him
by the jealous Deianeira, as throwing himself upon a burning pyre on
Mount Œta, whence he was caught up to heaven in a cloud.
Note 479 page 305. Compare: Exodus, iii, 2; Acts, ii, 1-4; and II Kings,
ii, 11-2.
Note 480 page 307. This dialogue is by some represented as having
actually taken place in the presence of Raphael.
Note 481 page 308. PLOTINUS was born in Egypt about 204 A.D., and taught
philosophy at Rome. He lived so exclusively the life of speculation that
he seemed ashamed of bodily existence, and concealed his parentage,
birthplace and age.
Note 482 page 308. ST. FRANCIS, (Gianfrancesco Bernardone, 1182-1226),
was born and died at Assisi near Perugia, and was canonized in 1288.
Note 483 page 308. II Corinthians, xii, 2-4.
Note 484 page 308. Acts, vii, 54-60.
Note 485 page 308. St. Luke, vii, 37.
Note 486 page 309. Mount Catria lies less than twenty miles to the
southward of Urbino, between Pergola and Gubbio, and rises a little more
than a mile above the sea level. It is mentioned by Dante in the
_Paradiso_ (xxi, 109).
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INDEX
INDEX
Ability to perform his highest functions, necessary to the courtier,
even if he be not called on, 283
Abrahams, N. C. L., 421
Absurd similes, 129
Accolti, Benedetto, 333
Bernardo,—see Unico Aretino
Pietro, 333
Accomplishments, etc., of the courtier; how to be employed, 81 et seq.;
the proper aim of, 246 et seq.
Achaia, 171, 387
Achilles, 61, 62, 64, 284, 348, 349, 414
Acquapendente, 158, 382
Adams, Thomas, 421
Adrian VI, 317, 413
Adriatic, the, 8
Adulation of princes, 248
Ady, Mrs. Henry, 338, 399
Æneas, 339, 393
Æneid, a quotation from the, 365
Æschines, 51, 54, 344
Æsop, 78, 356, 357
Affectation:
to be avoided, 35, 83;
instances of:
in oratory, 35;
in dancing, 36;
in attire, 36;
in riding, 37;
in boasting, 37;
in music, 37;
in painting, 37;
in speech, 38;
in preferring to practise that in which one does not most excel,
117
“Aforesaid,” story about a Sienese who mistook Aforesaid for a name,
130
Age, the courtier’s functions affected by his, 281, 283-4
Agesilaus, 250, 408
Agilulph, Duke of Turin, 393
Agnello, Antonio, 126, 361-2
Giulio, 362
Agone, the Piazza d’, 249, 407
Aguilar, the Marquess of, 384
Alamanni, 149-50
Albert III, Duke of Bavaria, 374
Alberti, Giovanni, 421
Albizzi, 370
Albret, Charlotte d’, 377
Alcibiades, 57, 89, 356, 402
Aldana, Captain, 152, 379
Aldine Press, 315, 419
Aldus (Teobaldo Manucci), 315, 329, 332, 394, 405
Alessandrina Library at Rome, 417
Alexander the Great, 28, 34, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 68, 70, 103, 109, 142,
146, 205, 207, 210, 212, 274, 275, 284, 285, 338, 348, 351, 358,
401, 411, 414
Alexander III, 364
Alexander VI (Roderigo Lenzuoli Borgia), 10, 126, 147, 216, 318, 328,
336, 340, 361, 365, 367, 369, 371, 372, 375, 377, 380, 382, 395,
397, 400
Alexander Jannæus, King of the Jews, 191, 389
Alexandra, Queen of the Jews, 191, 389
Alexandria in Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great, 274, 411
Alexandria, the Bishop of, (Giannantonio di Sangiorgio), 142, 372
Alexandrian Cardinal, the, (Giovanni Antonio di Sangiorgio), 142, 372
Alfonso I of Naples, 146, 153, 156, 375-6
Alfonso II of Naples, 10, 327, 363, 383, 397, 398, 400
Alfonso the Magnanimous,—see Alfonso I of Naples
Alidosi, Francesco,—see Pavia, the Cardinal of Almada, Brazaida de,—see
Castagneta, the Countess of Juan Baez de, 384
Almogaver,—see Boscan
Altamura, the Prince of, 399
Altoviti, 149-50
Alva, the Duke of, 315
“Amadis of Gaul,” 405
Amalasontha, Queen of the Goths, 202, 393
Ambrogini, Angelo,—see Poliziano
Benedetto, 345
Ambros, 359
Ambrosiana Library at Milan, 417
Amiable manners necessary to the courtier, 91
Ancelin, Thibauld, 420
Ancona, absurd duelling of two cousins of, 30
Angelica Library at Rome, 417
Angelier, Abel l’, 421
Arnoul l’, 419
Angoulême, Count Charles d’, 346
Monseigneur d’,—see Francis I of France
Anichino, a character in Boccaccio, 164
Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, 202, 371, 395, 396
Anne of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans, 371
Antæus, 275, 411
Antigonus, King of Macedon, 351
Antiphanes, 364
Antonello da Forli, 147, 376
Antonio di Tommaso, 375
Antonius, Marcus, (the orator), 44, 51, 339
Apelles, 37, 68, 70, 338, 351, 402
Apennines, 8, 43
Aphrodite, 387, 388
Apollo, 356
Apollo Belvedere, 349, 410
Aptitude for fun, requisite in a man who would be amusing, 154
Apulia, use of music in, as a cure for bite of tarantula, 15
Aquila, Serafino dall’,—see Serafino dall’Aquila
Aquino, the Bishop of,—see Mario de’ Maffei
Aragon, Alfonso II of Naples,—see Alfonso II of Naples
Alfonso V of,—see Alfonso I of Naples
Beatrice, Queen of Hungary, 204, 336, 397, 399, 400
Catherine, wife of Henry VIII of England, 412
Eleanora, Duchess of Ferrara, 204-5, 336, 363, 397, 398, 399
Federico III of Naples,—see Federico III of Naples
Ferdinand of,—see Ferdinand the Catholic
Ferdinand I of Naples,—see Ferdinand I of Naples
Ferdinand II of Naples,—see Ferdinand II of Naples
Ferdinand the Just, 375
Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria, 400
Isabella, Duchess of Milan, 204, 327, 381, 398, 400
Joanna, wife-aunt of Ferdinand II of Naples, 327, 397
Juan II, King of Navarre and, 397
Juana, wife of Philip of Austria, 413
Ludovico, Cardinal, 159, 341, 383
Archaisms of speech discussed, 39-54
Archiuzow, an alleged Russian translator of THE COURTIER, 324
Arco, MS. bibliographical notes by the late Count d’, 417
Ares, 411
Aretino, Pietro, 333
Unico, (Bernardo Accolti),—see Unico Aretino
Argentina, madonna, 196
_Arguzie_, 121, 143
Arion, 349
Ariosto, Alfonso, 2, 7, 75, 171, 243, 320
Ludovico, 320, 336, 345
Aristippus of Cyrene, 59, 348
Aristobulus I, King of the Jews, 389
Aristodemus, 264, 409
Aristogeiton, 390
Aristotle, 34, 57, 63, 284-5, 286, 323, 370, 374, 388, 391, 409, 414
Arms, the courtier’s true profession, 25
Arms vs. letters, 60-2
Arnold, Fr., 337
Arrogance of princes, 248-9
Art, enjoyment of beauty in nature increased by a knowledge of, 69
Artemisia, 205, 400-1
Arthur Tudor, son of Henry VII of England, 412
Artifice, discussion on, 118
Artifice in love, deprecated, 165-6
Ascension, Venetian festival of the, 131, 364
Ascham, Roger, 316
Asia, 101, 275
_Asinus Domino Blandiens_, one of Æsop’s fables, 357
Asnapper (Sardanapalus), 206, 401
Aspasia, 197, 390-1
Assurbanipal (Sardanapalus), 206, 401
Atanagi’s _Rime Scelte_, 331
Athena, 387
Athenian dialect:
spoken with excessive care by Theophrastus, 5;
not rigidly adhered to by excellent Greek authors, 47
Athens, 101, 197
feminine constancy commemorated by a statue at, 192
Athos, Mount, 274, 411
Atri, Giacomo d’, (Count Pianella),—see Pianella
Attendolo, Muzio, called Sforza, 381
Attire appropriate to the courtier, 102-4
Augustus, 190, 388, 401
Aurelian, the Emperor, 401
Austria, Margarita of, 202, 395-6
Maximilian of,—see Maximilian I
Philip of, 413
Autharis, King of the Lombards, 393
Ayola, Maria de, 317
Bacon, Francis, afterwards Lord Verulam, 316
Bactria, 285, 414
Bad government, the evils of, 249
Bad master, the courtier to leave the service of a, 99, 285
Baja, 274, 410
Bajazet II of Turkey, 141, 173, 372, 388
Balance and contrast, in art and character, 83
Baldi, Bernardino, 327
Baldness, jests about Bernardo Bibbiena’s, 122, 155
_Ballare_ and _danzare_ compared, 352-3, 382
_Ballatore_, 156, 382
Balzo, Antonia del, 400, 404
Isabella del, Queen of Naples,—see Isabella del Balzo
_Banchi_, a street in Rome, the scene of a trick played upon Bibbiena,
159-60, 383
Bandello, 366
Barbara of Brandenburg, Marchioness of Mantua, 374, 404
Barbarelli, Giorgio,—see Giorgione
Barbarian influence upon Latin, resulting in Italian, 43
Barbary pirates, touching incident following a husband’s rescue from,
195-7
Barbèra, Gaspare, 422
Bari, Roberto da,—see Roberto da Bari
Barletta, 73, 87, 352
Barletta, the tournament at, 351
Barlettani, Lucrezia, 367
Barozzi, Pietro, the (Arch-) Bishop of Padua, 136, 366
Bartolommeo, joke concerning the name, 151
Basa, Bernardo, 420
Basset, a dance performed after the first evening’s discussion, 73, 352
Battesworth, A., 421
Bavaria, Duke Albert III of, 374
Margarita of,—see Margarita of Bavaria
Bayeux, the Bishop of,—see Canossa, Ludovico da
Beatrice, a character in Boccaccio, 164, 165
of Lorraine, 394
Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond, 413
Beauty:
personal beauty requisite in the courtier, 23;
beauty unadorned, 55;
love defined as “a certain desire to enjoy beauty,” 288;
two ways of enjoying beauty, 289;
beauty, an effluence of divine goodness, 289;
cannot be truly enjoyed by possessing the body in which it is found,
290;
“beauty is good:” true love of beauty works for good, 291;
effect of women’s beauty on their own character, 292-3, 296;
“Do not believe that beauty is not always good,” 293;
beauty, a true sign of inward goodness, 294;
beauty through utility, 294-5;
“the good and the beautiful are in a way one and the same thing,”
295;
bodily beauty derived from beauty of the soul, 295-6;
beautiful women, more chaste than ugly women, 296;
beauty does not spring from the body wherein it shines, 298;
beauty best enjoyed through sight and hearing, 298;
beauty engendered in beauty, 299;
beauty to be enjoyed for itself, and not for the sake of the body
wherein it dwells, 302-3;
the highest enjoyment of beauty is the enjoyment of beauty in the
abstract, apart from bodily form, 303-4
Beazzano, Agostino,—see Bevazzano
Beccadello, Cesare, 160-1, 383
Domenico Maria, 383
Ludovico, 383
_Becco_, a he-goat, 129, 363
Beggar and lady at church, story of, 125
Belcolore (a character in Boccaccio), 127
Bellini, the, 343
Gentile, 341
Giacopo, 341
Giovanni, 341
Niccolosa, 341
Belvedere, a pavilion in the Vatican Gardens, 274
Bembo, Bernardo, 330
Pietro, 12, 18, 60, 61, 104, 106, 121, 130, 244, 255, 259-60, 287,
288-307, 308, 319, 320, 321, 330-1, 332, 333, 334, 336, 340, 342,
343, 345, 348, 358, 359, 362, 363, 364, 367, 368, 369, 374, 379,
380, 383, 403, 407, 415
Bembo’s _Gli Asolani_, 330, 336, 415
Prose, 340
Bentivogli, the, 375
Bentivoglio, Francesca, 314
Laura, 373
Berenson, Bernhard, 343
Berg, Adam, 420
Bergamasque dialect, rude by contrast with others, 41, 338
peasant, story of two great ladies deceived by a, 156-7
Bergamo, 105, 338
Bergamo, Lattanzio da, 376
Bernardone, Gianfrancesco, (St. Francis of Assisi), 416
Bernhardt, Madame Sara, 380
Bernice of Pontus, 389
Beroaldo, Filippo, the elder, 368
Filippo, the younger, 139, 319, 352, 368
Berry, Arthur, “Short History of Astronomy,” 360, 415
Bersine, wife of Alexander the Great, 401
Berto, 26, 128, 336
Bettoni, Niccolò, 421
Bevazzano, Agostino, 144, 374
Francesco, 374
Bias, 263, 408
Bibbiena, Bernardo Dovizi da, 2, 12, 28, 32, 36, 43, 110, 121, 122,
123-65, 166, 167, 170, 230, 234, 237, 238, 244, 276, 279, 321-2,
332, 334, 342, 348, 360, 361, 363, 367, 379, 407, 413
Bibbiena’s _Calandra_, 314, 321, 335, 356, 367
Bible, citations from the, 96, 137, 139, 301, 305, 357, 366, 415, 416
Bibulus, Marcus, 389
Bidon, 50, 340
Biga, Maddalena, a virtuous peasant girl, 403
Biondo, Flavio, 410
Birth, gentle, requisite in the courtier, 22-5
_Bischizzo, bisticcio_, 136, 365
Bishop, George, 421
Blanc, Charles, 327
Blanche, Queen of France, 395
Blasphemy, to be avoided, 143
Blind, story of two gamesters who made their companion believe that he
was, 157-9
Boadilla (or Bobadilla), My lady, (Beatriz Fernandez de Bobadilla,
Marchioness of Moya), 148, 164, 377
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 3, 4, 5, 41, 42, 49, 50, 51, 52, 164, 165, 167,
323, 339
Boccaccio’s _Corbaccio_, 384
Decameron, 127, 161, 384
Bohemia, Ladislas II of, 397