Hobbie, Sir Thomas, 316
Hoby, Thomas, 316, 420, 421, 422
William, 316
Hohenstauffen rulers of Naples, 375
Homer, 41, 44, 49, 53, 57, 61, 62, 284, 315, 348, 391
Honesty and uprightness, requisite in the courtier, 56
Honour of women, discussion as to the regard to be shown to the, 162
Horace, 44, 340
Horse afraid of weapons, story about a, 138
Horse-breeding, 274
Horsemanship, the courtier to be an adept in, 30
Hortensius Hortalus, Quintus, 44, 339
Huguetan, Jean, 420
Humanities, the courtier to be versed in the, 59
Humour, beginning of the discussion on, 120
Hunchbacks, story of two, 151
Hungary, “the other queen of,”—see Aragon, Beatrice
Hunyadi, János, of Hungary, 397
Husbands and wives, ill treatment between, 193
_Hypnerotomachia Poliphili_, 405
Iapetus, 408
Icarus, 342
Ignorance:
as to confessing, 116-7;
one of the gravest faults of princes, 247;
the root of evil, 254-6
Iliad, the, kept by Alexander the Great at his bedside, 57
Imitation, in literary style: 41;
more necessary for the moderns than for the ancients, 49
_Imprese_ (devices), 12, 330
Improbabilities, to be avoided in conversation, 119
Incongruity, the source of laughter, 124
Incontinence in men, no more excusable than unchastity in women, 206
India, 285
Inghirami, Paolo, 367
Tommaso, (“Fedra”), 138, 367, 375
Innocent VIII, 341, 371, 372
Innuendo, instances of witty, 145-7
Innys, William, 421
Ippolito d’Este,—see Este
Isabella del Balzo, Queen of Naples, 205, 397, 399-400
Isabella the Catholic:
referred to as “the queen,” 150;
mentioned, 156, 202-4, 219, 377, 378, 384, 396-7, 412, 413
Isaia di Pippo of Pisa, 333
Ischia, the island of, 319
Ismail Sufi I of Persia, 173, 387-8
Isocrates, 51, 344, 409
Isola Ferma, 222, 405
Italian language, derived from the Latin, 43
Italians:
martial exercises in which they excelled, 30;
military decadence of, 58-9, 347;
lamentable lack of any style of dress peculiar to, 103;
become a prey to other nations, 103, 347
Italy, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 40, 43, 44, 46, 103, 114, 171, 198, 202, 274,
347
James I of England, 413
James IV of Scotland, 413
Janus, 407
Japan, THE COURTIER said to have been carried to, 324
J. C. L. L. J., an anonymous German translator of THE COURTIER, 316,
421
Jem,—see Djem
Jena University Library, 417
Jerome, St.,—see St. Jerome
Jobinus, Bernhardus, 420, 421
Johannes Hyrcanus, King of the Jews, 389
John III of Portugal, 317
John, King of Hungary, 397
Joly, Aristide, (_De Balthassaris Castillionis opere_, etc.), 417
Jousting, deemed by Djem too serious for sport, 141
Jove, 184, 252, 388
Jovinianus, St. Jerome’s first tract against, 388
Juan, Infant of Castile, 396
Juan II of Castile, 396
Juan II of Navarre and Aragon, 397
Judgment Day, story of lady who dreaded to appear nude on the, 132
Julius II (Giuliano della Rovere), 10, 12-3, 137, 138, 151, 153, 274,
313, 314, 318, 319, 321, 325, 328-9, 330, 332, 334, 335, 336, 342,
343, 361, 365, 366, 371, 372, 375, 377, 378, 380, 382, 383, 400,
404, 410, 413
Juno, 199
Jupiter Feretrius, 325
Juste, Françoys, 419
Justice, the good prince’s first care, 270
Justinian, the Emperor, 393
“King Louis,”—see Louis XII
“King of France, The,” a phrase signifying the acme of royal power, 272
Kiss, the origin and meaning of the, 300-1
Knowledge, the essential prerequisite of literary style, 45
Kratzer, Lorenz, 316, 420
Lacedemonians, cultivators of music, 64
Ladislas II of Bohemia, 397
Lady at church and the beggar, story of the, 125
Lælius, Caius (Sapiens), 51, 106, 344, 358
Laïs, 402
Landi, Agostino, 334
Caterina, 334
Count Marcantonio, 334
Landriano, Gerardo, Bishop of Como, 366
Language, in what consists the excellence of, 53
Languages, the courtier ought to know many, 115
Laocoön, the, 349
Lapi, Checca, 384
Lascaris, Constantine, 330, 397
Lasso, Pedro, 420
Latin:
the source of Italian, 43;
the courtier to be conversant with, 59;
Castiglione prefers that his son should devote more attention to
Greek than to, 347
Latinistic forms of several Italian words advocated, 48, 54, 340
Latino Giovenale de’ Manetti, 151, 379
Lat_r_in tongue, 136
Lattanzio da Bergamo, 376
Laughter:
peculiar to man, 123;
incongruity affirmed to be its source, 124
Laura, 220, 404-5
Laure de Noves, 405
Lavinello, 415
Lavinello’s Hermit, a character in Bembo’s _Gli Asolani_, 288, 415
Law, princes’ need to show respect for, 271
Leæna, 192, 390
Leaping, an accomplishment proper for the courtier, 31
Leghorn, 196
Lei, Bernardino, Bishop of Cagli, 366
Lemonnier, Felice, 421
Lenzuoli, Giuffredo (or Alfonso), 328
Roderigo,—see Alexander VI
Leo X (“My lord Cardinal”), 152, 313, 314, 317, 319, 320, 321, 322,
329, 331, 332, 333, 335, 336, 337, 340, 341, 342, 345, 352, 361,
362, 364, 365, 368, 369, 370, 373, 374, 380-1, 382, 411, 413
Leonardo da Vinci, 50, 336, 337, 341, 346, 350, 366, 381
his _Codex Atlanticus_, 360
his “Treatise on Painting,” 350
Leonico Tomeo, Niccolò, 145, 374
Letters:
the true ornament of the mind, 56;
disprized by the French at the beginning of the 16th century, 56;
but esteemed by the youthful Francis (I), 56-7;
and by captains of ancient times, 57-8;
the true conservator of glory, 58;
letters vs. arms, discussed, 60-2
Leuconia, 200, 393
Liberty, 259-61
Library of the Palace of Urbino, 9, 331
Library of the Spanish Academy at Madrid, 417
Libreria Salesiana, 421
Literary piracy:
hasty publication of THE COURTIER arose from dread of, 1;
frequency of, 320
Literary style, discussion of, 3-5, 38-54
Literary usage:
how determined, 48;
subject to change, 48-9
Livy (Titus Livius), 47, 326, 340, 358, 375, 391
Lombard, the author admits writing as a, 5
Lombards:
addicted to the use of foreign words, 38;
fond of fantastic dress, 104
Lombardy: 104;
eulogy of noble ladies of, 204
Longinus, the lance of, 372
Longis, Jean, 419
Lor—, Jean, 419
Loreto, Our Lady of, 158, 382
Lorraine, Beatrice of, 394
Louis, St., 395
Louis IX of France, 395
Louis XI of France, 387, 395
Louis XII of France, 141, 202, 313, 318, 330, 332, 337, 341, 346, 359,
371, 376, 381, 395, 396, 400, 409
Louise of Savoy, 346
Love:
the course to be pursued by women (married and unmarried) in love,
223-40;
how men are to win women’s love, 229-30;
how men are to declare their love, 231-2;
openness in love, 233-4;
how love is retained, 234-6;
rivalry in love, 234-6;
secrecy in love, 237-40;
whether love be seemly in an old courtier, 286-7;
beginning of Bembo’s discourse on Platonic love, 288;
love defined as “a certain desire to enjoy beauty,” 288;
defects of carnal love, 290;
maturity less prone to carnal love, than youth, 291;
true love of beauty is beneficent, 291;
sensual love in a measure excusable in the young, 292;
sensual love not excusable in those of mature years, 292, 297;
spiritual love, 304-5;
Bembo’s invocation to divine love, 305-7;
instances in which the mysteries of divine love have been revealed to
women, 308
Love talk, the course to be pursued by women in, 221-3
Loyalty requisite in the courtier, 25
Loyson, Estienne, 421
Lucca, Proto da,—see Proto da Lucca
Lucca, story of the sables and the merchant of, 132-3
Lucian, 357
Luciani, Sebastiano, “del Piombo,” 335
Luciano of Laurana, architect of the Palace of Urbino, 410
Lucullus, Lucius Licinius, 58, 205, 250, 347, 408
Luther, 313, 330, 333
Luzio, Alessandro, 399
Luzio and Renier’s _Mantova e Urbino_, 410
Lycurgus, 64, 349
Lyons, a practical joke played by Bibbiena on the bridge at, 160-1
Lysias, 51, 344
Lysis the Pythagorean, 250, 408
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 316, 328, 385, 409
Machiavelli’s “Art of War,” 376
_Discorsi_, 356
_Principe_, 347, 377
_Storia Fiorentina_, 378
Maffei, Mario de’, da Volterra,—see Mario de’ Maffei
Maggi, Graziosa, 332
Magnificence, a duty of princes, 273-4
Mahaffy, J. P., 359
Mahomet, 275
Mahomet II of Turkey, 371, 372
Mamurius Veturius, 339
Man, the laughing animal, 123
Manetti, Latino Giovenale de’,—see Latino Giovenale
Manlius Torquatus, Titus, 100, 357
Manner and time of employing the courtier’s accomplishments, 81 et seq.
Manners, excessive freedom of, to be avoided, 114
Manrique, Don Garci Fernandez, 384
Mantegna, Andrea, 50, 341-2, 360, 372, 395, 409
a son of Andrea, 395
Mantua, the Bishop of,—see Gonzaga, Ludovico
the Marquesses of,—see Gonzaga
Manucci, Teobaldo,—see Aldus
Manutius, Aldus,—see Aldus
_Marano_, a heretic, a renegade Moor, 139, 369
Marcantonio, Master, 152, 380
Marcella, Elena, 330
Marcello, Silvestro, 319
Marciana Library at Venice, 417
Marcus Antonius, (the orator), 44, 51, 339
Margarita of Austria, 202, 395-6
Margarita of Bavaria, Marchioness of Mantua, 322, 373, 374, 409
Mariano Fetti, Fra,—see Fra Mariano Fetti
Mario de’ Maffei da Volterra, 144, 374
Marius, Caius, 201, 393
Mark Antony, 190, 347, 388
Markets, the New and Old, at Florence, 145
Marliani’s Life of Castiglione, 420, 421
Marriage, the right time for, 268-9
Mars Gradivus, 339
Martin V, 319, 325
Mary of Burgundy, 395, 396, 413
Mary Magdalen, St., 308
Mary Tudor, wife of Louis XII of France, 371
Marzi, Galeotto, da Narni,—see Galeotto
Masks and fancy dress, 87-8
Mass, jest about speed in saying, 152-3
Mass-book, story of the, 137-8
Massilia, custom of providing means of self-destruction at, 192, 390
Massimo, Roberto, da Bari,—see Roberto da Bari
Massot, Estienne, 421
Master Serafino, 150
Matilda, the Countess, 202, 393-4
Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, 204, 336, 365, 397-8, 399
Mausolus, King of Caria, 401
Maximilian I, Emperor of Germany, 143, 202, 359, 367, 371, 387, 395,
396, 397, 400, 413
Mayer, Johann, 421
Mazzoleni, 421
Mazzuchelli, Count Giammaria, Life of Castiglione, 417
Medici, Caterina de’, 346
Cosimo de’, _Pater Patriæ_, 140, 151, 345, 362, 370, 376, 378, 381
Giovanni de’, (Cosimo’s father), 370
Giovanni de’, "_delle Bande Nere_," 337
Giovanni de’, "My lord Cardinal,"—see Leo X
Giuliano de’, (brother of Lorenzo the Magnificent), 345, 378
Giuliano de’, “My lord Magnifico,” 2, 12, 37, 42, 56, 64, 71, 89-90,
102, 132, 142, 144, 168, 169, 170, 172, 174-238, 244, 256, 276,
280, 281, 308, 320-1, 331, 339, 341, 342, 343, 346, 349, 380, 390,
407, 414
Giulio de’,—see Clement VII
Grasso de’, 62, 348
Ippolito de’, 320, 329
Lorenzo de’, Duke of Urbino, 319, 321, 330, 352
Lorenzo de’, the Magnificent, 51, 145, 320, 321, 335, 343, 345, 359,
378, 380
Pietro de’, 345
Meliolo, Bartolommeo, 384
Ludovico, 162, 384
Men and women, beginning of the discussion on the comparative
excellence of, 182
Menerola, Teodora, 328
Mercury, 252
Merula, Giorgio, 313
Messina, the Prior of, (Don Pedro de Cuña), 150-1, 378
Metastasio, P., 421
Metrodorus, 69, 351
Micard, Cl., 420
Michael, apparently a tutor to Castiglione’s son, 347
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 2, 50, 67, 313, 320, 321, 328, 329, 343, 350,
410
Michelet on Louis XII of France, 371
Milan, 153
the Dukes of,—see Sforza and Visconti
Miletus, the Bishop of,—see Pavia, the Cardinal of
Milles, Guillermo de, 419
Miltiades, 408
Mime,—see _Moresca_
Mimicry, the limits to be observed in, 127-8
Minerva, 89, 252
Miniana Compagnia, la, 421
Minutoli, Riciardo, a character in Boccaccio, 164, 165, 166
Miser:
retort of a spendthrift to a, 139;
story of a servant who had saved the life of his miserly master,
144-5
Mithridates VI, Eupator, King of Pontus, 191, 389
Mixed government, 261, 269-70
Moderate fortunes, less power possessed by the very rich than by men
of, 271
Moderation, the essence of virtue, 277-8
Modesty requisite in the courtier, 26
Molart, Captain, 152, 379
Monarchy vs. democracy, 259-61
Monima of Pontus, 389
Monkey, story of chess played by a, 133-4
Monpezat, Pedro, 419
Montaigne:
quotation from his _Essais_, 347;
the village of Paglia mentioned in his diary, 382
Monte, Pietro, 12, 34, 92, 174, 333-4
Pietro dal, 334
Montechiarugolo, Count Guido Torello di, 314
Montefeltro, Agnese di, 319
Antonio di, 329
Aura di, 376
Battista di, 394
Brigida Sueva di, 394
Count of, (in 1154), 325
Federico di, Duke of Urbino, 9, 129, 156, 265, 274, 317, 325-6, 327,
356, 362, 376, 381, 410
Gentile di, 322
Giovanna di, 318
Guidantonio di, Duke of Urbino, 325
Guidobaldo di, Duke of Urbino, 1, 9-11, 80, 129, 138, 147, 152, 313,
317-8, 319, 321, 322, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 342, 343, 344,
352, 376, 377, 387, 394, 404, 410
Oddantonio di, Count of Urbino, 325
Violante di, 394
origin of the name, 325
Montefeltro family, eulogy of the women of the, 202, 394
Montefiore Inn, synonymous expression for a bad inn, 155, 382
Montone, Braccio da, 355
Moors:
story of a Pisan merchant captured and rescued from the, 195-7;
to be conquered for their souls’ good, 275
Morello, Sigismondo, da Ortona, 12, 46, 83, 90, 91, 92, 292, 293, 294,
296, 299, 332
_Moresca_, mime, morris-dance, 15, 81, 87, 335
_Morgante Maggiore_, a poem by Luigi Pulci, 365
Morosina, 331
Morris-dance,—see _Moresca_
Mosca, Giambattista Vendramini, 421
Moses, 305
Mount Athos, 274, 411
Mount Catria, 309, 416
Mount Œta, 305, 415
Moya, the Marchioness of,—see Boadilla
Munchausen, 364
Muscovy, the Duke of, 132
Music:
affectation in, 37;
the variety of, 50;
the courtier to have skill in, 62;
praise of, 62-5;
to be regarded by the courtier as a pastime, 88;
certain kinds recommended, 88-9;
certain kinds to be avoided, 89;
musical performance forbidden to the aged, 89-90;
musical training essential to appreciation of, 90
"My lady Duchess,"—see Gonzaga, Elisabetta
"My lady Emilia,"—see Pia
“My lord Cardinal,” i.e., Giovanni de’ Medici,—see Leo X
"My lord Duke,"—see Montefeltro, Guidobaldo di
"My lord Gaspar,"—see Pallavicino
"My lord Magnifico,"—see Medici, Giuliano de’
"My lord Prefect,"—see Rovere, Francesco Maria della Myrtis, 391
Naples, 1, 110, 274
Napoli, Pietro da,—see Pietro da Napoli
Narni, Galeotto Marzi da,—see Galeotto Marzi da Narni
Nasica,—see Scipio Nasica
National Library at Madrid, 417
National Library at Paris, 417
Navarre, the King of, 377
Navarre and Aragon, Juan II of, 397
Navò, Curzio, 419, 421
Nazarius, St., 383
Nemours, the Duke of,—see Medici, Giuliano de’
Neologisms, the allowable use of, 47
Nero, the Emperor, 192, 388
New York Public Library, 417
Nicholas V (Tommaso Parentucelli), 127, 362
Nicoletto (Paolo Niccolò Vernia), 116, 359
Nicoletto, da Orvieto, 142, 373
Nicostrate, 197, 391
Nino di Ameria, Giacopo di, Bishop of Potenza, 135, 365
Ninus, the husband of Semiramis, 401
Nonchalance:
the true source of grace, 35, 38;
explanation of the Italian word rendered by, 338
“Not at home,” story of Scipio and Ennius who pretended to be, 148
Novara, 337
_Novelle_ of Boccaccio, 161
Noves, Audibert de, 405
Laure de, 405
Novillara, Count of,—see Castiglione, Baldesar
Noyse, Johann Engelbert, 316, 421
Nucio (or Nutio), Martin, 419
Philippo, 420, 421
the widow of Martin, 420
Nudity, story of lady who dreaded the Judgment Day because of her, 132
Nutio,—see Nucio
Nutt, David, 422
Obedience:
a duty only when the command is righteous, 99-100;
the peril of even slight deviation from the letter of one’s orders,
100-2
Obscenity, to be avoided, 143
Ockenheim, 359
Octavia, 190, 388
Odasio of Padua, 329
Odenathus, King of Palmyra, 401
Œta, Mount, 305, 415
Oglio, story of the peasant girl who drowned herself in the, 214-5
Old age:
its tendency to laud the past and to decry the present, 75-9;
affectations of, 90;
characteristics peculiar to, 91
Old fashions, instances of, in manners and attire, 79
Olschki, Leo, 417
Olympia, 387
Olympian Jove, 171
Olympic games, 171
Oratory:
affectation in, 35;
the variety of, 50-1;
the courtier to be versed in, 59
Orestes, 106, 358
Oriental courts, manners of, 173
Orlando, a character of mediæval romance, 365
Orléans, Duke Charles d’, 371
Orléans, the Duke of,—see Louis XII
Orpheus, 167, 184, 349, 384, 388
Orsini, Clarice, 320, 380
Giangiordano, 404
Ortona, Morello da,—see Morello
Orvieto, Nicoletto da, 142, 373
Oscan language, 49, 340
Othman, Djem,—see Djem Othman
Our Lady of Loreto, 158, 382
Ovid, 237, 315, 390
Ovid’s _Ars Amandi_, 352, 366, 404, 405
Oyselet, Georges l’, 420
Padovano, Giovanni, 419
Padua, 116, 136, 161
the (Arch-) Bishop of, 136, 366
Paduan flavour in Livy’s style, 47
Pæonius’s “Victory,” 387
Paganino, Alessandro, 419
Paglia, story of the practical joke played in the inn at, 157-9
Painting:
affectation in, 37;
variety of, 50;
the courtier to be proficient in, 65;
praise of, 65-70;
discussion as to the comparative merits of painting and sculpture,
67-8, 349-50
Paleologus, Margarita, Duchess of Mantua, 414
Paleotto, Annibal, 134, 135, 364, 367
Camillo, 138, 147, 367
Vincenzo, 364
Pallas, 197, 356
Pallavicino, Count Gaspar, 12, 13, 14, 23, 27, 30, 41, 63, 64, 85, 88,
100, 104, 105, 107, 108, 112, 118, 129, 142, 143, 144, 162, 163,
164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 172, 173-4, 175, 178, 181-2, 185, 186,
190, 193, 194, 197, 199, 201, 202, 203, 206, 207, 209-10, 213, 218,
221, 223, 226, 231, 237, 238-40, 243, 245, 251, 254, 259, 261, 264,
267, 268, 269, 272, 285, 286, 287, 296, 307, 308, 332, 403, 407
Palma Vecchio, 343
Panætius, 250, 408
Pandora, 408
Paolo, a dutiful son, 196
Paolo Romano, 333
Paredes, Diego Garcia de, 371
Parentucelli, Tommaso,—see Nicholas V
Paris, the “noble school” of, (the Sorbonne), 57, 346-7
Paris and the three goddesses, 172, 387
Parmesan, the battle fought in the, i.e., the battle of Fornovo, 117,
360
Passano, Giambattista, (_I Novellieri Italiani_), 417
Passavant, 342
Passions, to be tempered, not extirpated, 257-8
Past, declared to be inferior to the present, 79
Paul, St., 129, 308, 363
Paul III, 317, 369
Paullus, Simon, 421
Paulus, Lucius Æmilius, 69, 351
Pausanias, 390
Pavia, the battle of, 376, 387
the Bishop of,—see Pavia, the Cardinal of
the Cardinal of, (Francesco Alidosi), 146, 151, 314, 319, 368, 375
Payne, Olive, 421
Pazzi, Gianotto de’, 151, 378
Giovanni de’, 378
Rafaello de’, 150-1, 378
Peace, the arts of war no more glorious than those of, 265-6
Pedrada, Sallaza dalla, 140, 370
Pelagio, Guido del, 374
Peleus, 284, 387, 414
Penalties for crime, preventive rather than punitive, 253
Pepoli, the Count of, 139, 369
Peralta, Captain Luijse Galliego de, 152, 379
Pergamus, 358
Periander of Corinth, 408
Pericles, 208, 391, 402, 403
Persecutions endured by girls at their lovers’ hands, 216-8
Perseus, King of Macedon, 351, 392
Persia:
Alexander the Great’s conquest of, 103;
the King of (in the time of Themistocles), 275;
the Sophi King of,—see Ismail Sufi I
Persians defeated in battle, story of their wives’ rebuke, 201
Personal attention, princes’ need to attend personally to the execution
of their commands, 265
Personal service, the perfect courtier not busied with, 174
Perugia, two cousins who fought at, 30
Perugino, 342
Pescara, the Marchioness of,—see Colonna, Vittoria the Marquess of,
319, 322
“Peter Piper,” 365
Petrarch, 41, 42, 44, 49, 50, 51, 52, 220, 323, 339, 345, 348, 383,
404, 405
Petrarch’s _Trionfo d’Amore_, 340
_Phædra_, a character in Seneca’s _Hippolytus_, 367
_Phèdre_, a tragedy by Racine, 367
Philip of Austria, 413
Philip of Burgundy, 387
Philip of Macedon, 34, 143, 374, 414
Philip V of Macedon, 200, 392
Phœnix, 284, 414
Phrigio,—see Frisio
Phrisio,—see Frisio
Phryne, 402
Physiognomists, who read a man’s character and thoughts in his face,
294
Pia, Alda, 394
Emilia, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 32, 53, 54, 66, 72, 93, 119,
122, 123, 130, 131, 136, 144, 167-8, 169-70, 186, 189, 190, 191,
200, 226, 228, 229, 230, 231, 241, 269, 273, 281, 288, 307, 308,
309, 322, 329, 332, 334, 352, 361, 403, 414
Pianella, Count, (Giacomo d’Atri), 142, 373-4
Piazza d’Agone at Rome, 249, 407
Piccinino, Niccolò, 77, 355-6
Piccolomini, Æneas Silvius,—see Pius II
Pierpaolo, 36
Pietro Antonio da Vinci (Leonardo’s father), 341
Pietro da Napoli, 12, 62, 93
Piety towards God, princes’ need of, 270
Pindar, 197, 391
Pinturicchio, 351
Pio, Alberto, 329, 332, 394
Alda,—see Pia
Emilia,—see Pia
Giberto, 329
Leonello, 332
Ludovico, 12, 62, 99, 114, 332, 395
Marco, 329
Pio family, eulogy of the women of the, 202
Piombo, Sebastiano del,—see Luciani
Pippi, Giulio, called Romano, 314
Pirithous, 106, 358
Pisa:
story of a soldier wounded at, 27;
story of a merchant of, rescued from Barbary pirates, 195-7
Pisan war, story about Florentine methods of raising funds for, 130-1
Pisan women, bravery of, 205
Pistoia, 131, 363
Pistoia (Antonio Cammelli), 142, 373
Pittacus of Mitylene, 408
Pius II (Æneas Silvius Piccolomini), 361
Pius III (Francesco Todeschini), 126, 361
Plato, 5, 63, 78, 181, 269, 284, 285, 286, 308, 313, 345, 364, 370,
391, 409, 415
Plato’s “Laws,” 388
_Phædo_, 356
“Republic,” 269, 279, 324, 388, 409
“Symposium,” 391
Plautus, 44, 340, 363
Plautus’s _Menæchmi_, 321
_Trinummus_, 336
Pleasantries:
beginning of the discussion on, 120;
classified, 126;
cruelty to be avoided in, 135-6
Pliny, 349, 351, 391
Plotinus, 308, 416
Plutarch, 356, 364, 389, 391, 393, 408, 411, 412, 414
Plutarch’s “Apothegms and Famous Sayings of Spartan Women,” 393
“Concerning Women’s Virtue,” 390, 392-3
“How to Tell Friend from Flatterer,” 348
“Life of Alexander the Great,” 401
“Life of Camillus,” 392
“Life of Lucullus,” 389
“On Garrulity,” 390
“On the Ignorant Prince,” 409
_Podestà_, explanation of the word, 360
Poetry, the courtier to be versed in, 59
Poisoned cannon shot, story about, 130
Poland, the King of, 132
Poliphilian words, 235
Politian,—see Poliziano
Poliziano, 51, 320, 327, 344-5
Pollux, 404
Pompey (Pompeius), Cneius, 58, 346, 347, 378
Sextus, 192, 193
Pontormo, 358
Pontremolo, Gianluca da,—see Gianluca
Pontus, 264
Ponzio, Caio Caloria, 161-2, 383
Popes, play upon the names of two, 126-7
Porcaro, Antonio, 138, 367, 370
Camillo, 140, 141, 367, 370
Valerio, 367
Porcia, 190, 389
Porta, Domenico dalla, 151
Portalegre, Diego de Silva, Count of, 317
Porto, 274, 410
Portugal, Eleanora of, 396
Elizabeth of, 387
Emanuel I of, 133, 364
John III of, 317
Portuguese mariners, discoveries by the, 133
Porzio,—see Porcaro
Poseidon, 349, 411
Potenza, the Bishop of, (Giacopo di Nino di Ameria), 135, 365
Pozzuoli, 274, 410
Practical jokes, instances of, 155-62
Practice vs. precept, 267-8
Praise, to be modestly disclaimed, 60
Prato, 131, 363
Praxiteles’s “Hermes,” 387
Precept vs. practice, 267-8
Prefect of Rome,—see Rovere, Francesco Maria della
Près, Josquin de, 113, 359
Present, declared to be superior to the past, 79
_Primero_, or _primiera_, a game of cards, 382
Princes:
courtiers’ intercourse with, 93-102102;
courtiers not to intrude upon the privacy of, 95;
to deserve their favour is the best way of gaining it, 96;
a picture of the perfect prince, 261-72;
evils endured by tyrannical princes, 263-4
_Procella_, fury or storm, 94, 357
Procrustes, 275, 411
Prometheus, 252, 408
Proto da Lucca, 137, 366
Protogenes, 37, 69, 338
Provençal:
Boccaccio’s use of, 4;
fallen into decay in the author’s time, 49
Provence, René of, 375, 395
Provincial flavour, not necessarily a blemish in literary style, 47
Ptolemy, 389
Publius Licinius Crassus Mucianus, 101-2, 358
Pulci, Luigi, 365
Puns, instances of, 126-7, 134-5, 137-9
Purifying influence of love, 219
Purism of speech deprecated, 52
Pygmalion, 175, 388
Pylades, 106, 358
Pyramids of Egypt said to have been built in order to keep the
Egyptians busy, 267
Pythagoras, 90, 171, 357
Pythagoreans, the, 356
Quack, story of the peasant who had lost an eye and consulted a, 150
Qualities of the courtier, how to be employed, 81 et seq.
Rabani, Vettor de’, 419
Racine, 367
Raibolini, Francesco, better known as Francia, 332
Raleigh, Professor Walter, 316, 422
Rampazzetto, Francesco, 420
Rangone, Count Ercole, 139, 369
Raphael, 2, 50, 66, 67, 149, 313, 321, 333, 342-3, 378, 410, 411, 415
Ravenna, the battle of, 378, 379
Recitative, 89
Regio, Raffaele, 367
Reinhardstöttner’s article on the German translations of THE COURTIER,
417
Remondini, 421
Remus, 378
René of Provence, 375, 395
Renier, Rodolfo, 373, 399
Reputation:
a courtier to be preceded by his, 110;
the influence of, 112
Rhodes, 69
Riario, Cardinal, 383
Richard III of England, 413
Richmond, Edmund Tudor, Earl of, 412
Rigutini, Giuseppe, 327, 422
Rinaldo, a character of mediæval romance, 365
Ritius, Johannes, 420, 421
Rivadeneyra, Manuel, 421