Talleyrand, cardinal, I. 100.
Tasso, Bernardo, his birth and
parentage, II. 98. His early life
and ill-directed love, 99. At the
age of forty-one, appointed secretary
to Ferrante Sanseverino,
prince of Salerno, 99. His marriage,
100. Commences his poem,
entitled "Amadigi," 100. His letter
to his sister Afra, 101. Summoned
away from the delightful
retirement of Sorrento to join his
patron in the war which had
broken out between the emperor
Charles V. and Francis I., 102.
Returns from the army, and enjoys
a brief prolongation of his
domestic quiet, 103. Declared a
rebel, and his estate confiscated,
along with the adherents of the
duke of Salerno, 104. His letter
to his daughter, 108. Flies from
Rome to Ravenna; invited by
the duke of Urbino to Pesara,
where he affords a welcome but
temporary asylum from the persecution
of his enemies, and the
pressure of indigence, 111. Repairs
to Venice to publish his
work entitled "Amadigi," 113.
Failure of the poem, 119. Places
his son at Padua to study jurisprudence,
122. His interview
with his son at Mantua, 130.
His death, in the seventy-sixth
year of his age, 131.
Tasso, Torquato, review of his life,
II. 96. His birth, 101. Nursery
traditions of, 103. His progress
in the rudiments of knowledge,
under the superintendence of his
mother, 104. His beautiful and
touching lines on his separation
from her, when called away from
Naples to join his mother at
Rome, 105. Compared with
Cowper, 106. His religious sentiments,
107. Prosecutes his
studies with indefatigable assiduity
at Rome, 108. His letter
to Vittoria Colonna, on the subject
of his sister's marriage, 109.
Removes to Bergamo, 111. Commencement
of his friendship with
the son of the duke d'Urbino,
112. Diversities of circumstances,
scene, and company,
calculated to cherish and confirm
all his natural aspirings, 114.
Remark upon a line of Boileau
which has done more injury to
his reputation than all the splenetic
criticisms of Sperone, 115.
Critique on his Writings, 116.
Studies the works of his great
Italian predecessors, 117. Employed
by his father in transcribing
his multitudinous poems and
letters, 118. Sudden and passionate
admiration with which his
"Rinaldo" was hailed throughout
Italy, 119. Placed at Padua
to study jurisprudence, 122. Gives
up the law, and devotes himself
to philosophy and the Muses, 123.
His reply to his father's remonstrance,
124. The appearance of
his "Rinaldo" the dawn of a
new day in the literature of
his country, 124. All the characteristics
of his peculiar genius
perceptible in the incidents, style,
embellishments, and conduct of
this juvenile essay, 126. Repairs
to Bologna to pursue his natural
studies, and indulge in his
poetical passion, 127. Expelled
from Bologna for a literary squib,
128. Removes to Padua, where
he is inrolled member of the
Academy degli Eterei, 129. Devotes
much of his attention to
the works of Aristotle and Plato,
129. Remarks on his "Discourse
on Heroic Poetry," 130. Nominated
one of the personal attendants
of the duke of Ferrara, 131.
Arrives at Ferrara, and is received
into the service of the duke's
brother, 132. Commencement of
his acquaintance with the princesses
Lucretia and Leonora of
Este, 133. His description of
his own emotions during his first
visit and sojourn at Ferrara, 134.
Writes an epithalamium on the
marriage of the princess Lucretia,
136. His attachment to the
princess Leonora, 137. Accompanies
the cardinal Luigi to the
court of France, 138. Personal
anecdotes of, 139. Accompanies
the embassy to Rome; his interview
with the pope, 140. Prosecutes
that splendid crusade of
his Muse the poetical siege of
Jerusalem, 140. His "Aminta"
received with universal admiration
throughout all Italy, 142.
Illness occasioned by his anxiety
about his "Gerusalemme Liberata,"
144. Charged with heresy
against Aristotle and good taste
on one hand, and on the other
with heresy against the church
and good morals, 145. Escapes
from his splendid captivity to
Rome; appointed historiographer
to the house of Este, 146. Incident
which exhibits him not
less in the character of a hero than
he had hitherto figured in that of
the laureate of poets, 147. Growing
symptoms of a mind diseased, 148.
His strange melancholy, 149.
Flies secretly to Ferrara to visit
his sister at Sorrento, 150.
Anecdote of, 151. Committed to
St. Anne's Hospital as a lunatic;
his letter to Scipio Gonzaga
during his confinement, 152. His
representation of the treatment
which he experienced during his
confinement, 153. His sonnets
to the cats of the hospital, imploring
them to lend him the
light of their eyes to write by,
154. Pursues his studies with
unabated ardour and intensity,
155. His wild imaginations, 156.
Liberated at the special intercession
of the prince of Mantua,
157. His controversy with the
Della Cruscan Academy during
his imprisonment, 158. Remarkable
circumstances of his last
days, 159. Visits Rome, 160.
His death, in the fifty-first year
of his age, 161. His personal and
poetical character, 161.
Tassoni, Alessandro, his birth, parentage,
and early education;
studies jurisprudence at Ferrara,
II. 169. Enters the service of
cardinal Colonna; publishes his
"Considerations on various Subjects,"
171. Outline of the principal
episode of. "Secchia Rapita,"
172. His death, in the
seventy-first year of his age, 173.
Timoneda, III. 99.
Tiraboschi, I. 179.
Torella, Damigella, II. 76.
Tormes, Lazarillo de, III. 101.
Tornabuoni, Lucrezia, I. 167.
Torres, Balthazar de, III. 133.
Torricelli, II. 58.
Turpin, archbishop, I. 169.