Cabassoles, Philip de, bishop of
Cavaillon, his intimacy with Petrarch,
I. 83.
Cabral, Antonio, III. 324.
Cabral, Fernando Alvares, III. 311.
Cacciaguida, I. 2.
Caccini, his personal attack upon
Galileo from the pulpit, II. 31.
Cassalpinus, Andrew, the celebrated
botanist, II. 3.
Cæsarini, Virginio, II. 37.
Caffarelli, general, II. 375.
Calderon, don Pedro, his birth,
parentage, and early education,
III. 279. His fame established as a
poet, 280. Enters the military service
at the age of five and twenty,
280. Summoned to court by a
royal order, for the sake of writing
a drama for a palace festival,
281. Quits the army, and becomes
a priest, 281. His death
and character, 282. Review of
his writings, 283.
Calistus II., pope, I. 169.
Caloria, Tommaso, I. 87.
Caluso, the abate, II. 274.
Camara, Ruy Diaz de, III. 327.
Camerlingo, cardinal, II. 163.
Camoens, Vasco Perez de, his birth
and parentage, III. 296. Extract
from his "Lusiad," 299. Translation
of a sonnet in commemoration
of that attachment which
shed a disastrous influence over
the rest of his life, 303. Compared
with Petrarch, 304. Dr.
Southey's translation of one of
his sonnets, 306. His exile, 307.
Mutilated in the wars of his
country, but receives neither reward
nor preferment, 310. His
pathetic description of his friend
Noronha's exile, 312. Offers to
serve as a volunteer, and accompanies
Vasconcellos in his expedition
against the Mahometans,
315. Suspected of composing another
satire; arrested, and banished
to China, 316. Retires
from the details of business, to
pursue his poetical occupations,
317. Obtains leave to return to
Goa; is wrecked at the mouth
of the Mecon, 315. Pursues his
voyage to Goa, where he is received
by the viceroy with kindness
and distinction, 320. Extracts
from the seventh canto of
the "Lusiad," 321. His poem commemorating
the death of Caterina
d'Atayde, 322. Accompanies
Baretto, when he was appointed
governor of Sofala, 323. Returns
to Portugal, 324. Political
state of the country disadvantageous
to him, 325. Writes the
"Parnasso de Luis Camoens,"
325. A pension of 15,000 reis
granted to him, 326. His illness
and poverty, 327. His interview
with the cavalier Camara, 328.
His death, 329. His person, 329.
Review of his life, 330. Review
of his writings, 332.
Campaldino, the battle of, I. 14.
Camporese, the renowned philosopher,
II. 189
Cancionero, the, III. 9.
Canigiani, Eletta, the mother of
Petrarch, I. 61.
Caprona, the siege of, I. 15.
Carafa, Federigo, III. 41.
Carnescecchi, Pietro, II. 81.
Caro, Rodrigo, III. 83.
Casavecchia, Filippo, I. 296.
Castañeda, Gabrièl de, III. 133.
Castelli, Benedetti, II. 28.
Castillano, Diego, III. 138.
Castillejo, Cristoval, III. 93. Specimen
of his style, 94.
Cavalcanti, Guido, I. 19.
Cavalcanti, Mainardo de', I. 134.
Caza, Francesco della, I. 263.
Celsi, Lorenzo, doge of Venice, I.
105.
Cervantes, III. 120. His birth and
parentage; little known of his
early life, 123. Enters a student
in the university of Salamanca,
124. His poems published at
Madrid, 125. Leaves Madrid in
the service of cardinal Acquaviva,
125. Visits Rome; changes
the whole course of his life; and
volunteers to be a soldier, 126.
His services during the Turkish
war, 127. Wounded in the battle
of Lepanto, 128. Receives an
increase of pay, and is passed
into a company of the tercio of
Figueroa, 128. Visits Rome, Florence,
Venice, Bologna, Naples,
and Palermo, 129. Taken prisoner
by an Algerine squadron
on his return to Spain, 130. Interesting
details of his captivity,
131. Makes several attempts to
regain his liberty, 133. Detected
in planning his escape; is sentenced
to the bastinado, 137.
His courage and heroism excite
the respect of the friars of the
Order of Mercy, who resided at
Algiers for the purpose of treating
for the ransom of the Christian
captives, 139. Ransomed for
500 golden ducats, and left free
to return to Spain, 140. Determines
to refute certain calumnies
of which he was the object, 141.
Returns to his native land depressed
by poverty, and obscured
by want, 142. Becomes again a
soldier by profession, 143. First
appears as an author in the year
1584, 144. His marriage with
donna Catilina de Palacios y
Salazar, 145. Commences writing
for the theatre; endeavours to
rectify the deficiencies of the
stage and scenery, 146. Accepts
the situation of commissary, and
sets out with his family for Seville,
147. His office abolished;
he becomes the agent to various
municipalities, corporations, and
wealthy individuals, 148. During
his distasteful employment at
Seville, acquires the bitter view
of human affairs displayed in
Don Quixote, 149. Translation
of his verses to the monument of
the kings at Seville, 150. Various
annoyances which he suffered
in his financial occupations
at Seville, 151. Anecdote, displaying
the style in which justice
was carried on in Spain, 152.
Removes with his family to Valladolid,
153. His poverty the great
and clinging evil of his life, 153.
His letter to his uncle during his
imprisonment at La Mancha, 154.
Writes "Don Quixote" during his
imprisonment, 155. Fails in his
attempt to introduce himself to
the duke of Lerma, 156. Difficulties
which he encounters in
publishing "Don Quixote," 157.
The "Buscapié" attributed to
him, 158. Success of "Don Quixote"
excites the enmity of the
men of letters of his day, 160.
Suspected of murder, and thrown
with his entire family into prison,
162. Is set at liberty, 162.
Publishes his "Voyage to Parnassus,"
164. Anecdote, showing
the high esteem in which "Don
Quixote" was held, 165. Brings
cut his "Twelve Tales," which
raises yet higher his character
as an author, 167. His portrait
of himself, in his preface to the
"Twelve Tales," 168. His account
of the origin of the Spanish
drama, and the amelioration
that he in his younger days introduced,
169. Publishes his
"Persiles and Sigismunda," and
the second part of "Don Quixote,"
170. His dedication of it
to the count of Lemos, 171. His
last illness, 172. His interview
with the student of Toledo, 173.
His farewell letter to the count
of Lemos, 174. His death, in the
sixty-ninth year of his age, 174.
His character, 174. Brief review
of his works, 175. Extract
from his "Numantia," 176. Extract
from the comedy of "Life
in Algiers," 178. Extract from
his "Voyage to Parnassus," 184.
Cetina, III. 93.
Charlemagne, I. 2.
Charles of Valois, I. 20.
Chiabrera, Gabbriello, his birth,
parentage, and early education,
II. 163. Enters into the service
of cardinal Camerlingo, 163.
Writes some odes in imitation of
Pindar; makes the Greek lyrical
poets his models, 164.
Wishes to transfuse the spirit of
the Greeks into the Italian language,
165. Style of his poetry,
166. Specimen of his serious
style, as translated by Wordsworth,
166. His death and character, 168.
Chiaramonte, Scipio, II. 44.
Chrysoloras, Emanuel, I. 151.
Ciani, a Carthusian monk; his visit
to Boccaccio, I. 139.
Clement VI., pope, I. 89.
Colombe, Lodovico delle, II. 28.
Colonna, Giacomo, commencement
of his friendship with Petrarch,
I. 66.
Colonna, cardinal, I. 73.
Colonna, Vittoria, her birth, parentage,
and marriage, II. 77.
Her letter to her husband during
his imprisonment, 78. Her grief
at his death, 79. Extracts from
her poems, 80. Her death, 81.
Conrad III., emperor, I. 2.
Consalvo, the Spanish general, I.
284.
Convennole, I. 63.
Copernicus, II. 7.
Corregio, Azzo, I. 87.
Coutinho, Miguel Rodriguez, III.
321.
Couto, Diogo de III. 324.