The Book of the Courtier

_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 Boisy, Sieur de, 346 Bologna: subdued by Julius II, 12; mentioned as full of turmoil, 139; the Archbishop of,—see Pavia, the Cardinal of Bonaparte, Napoleon, 313 Bonfons, Nicholas, 420, 421 Boniface, Duke of Tuscany, 394 Borgia, Cardinal Francesco, 156, 382 Cesare, (“Duke Valentino”), 147, 313, 318, 325, 328, 329, 331, 341, 343, 376, 377, 378 Giovanni, 377 Juana (or Isabella), 328 Lucrezia, 322, 328, 330, 359, 363, 373, 377, 399 Roderigo Lenzuoli,—see Alexander VI Boristhenes,—see Dnieper Borso, Duke,—see Este Boscan Almogaver, Juan, 315, 320, 338, 377, 419, 420, 421 _Bottone_, play upon the word, 152 Bottone da Cesena, 152, 380 Bourcidan, Claude, 420 Bowyer, W., 421 Box, story of Cato and a rustic who had jostled him with a, 149 Braccesque leave, 167, 384 Bracciano, the Dukes of, 404 Braccio da Montone, 355 Braidense Library at Milan, 417 Bramante, the architect, 321, 335, 342, 381, 383, 410 Brancaleone, Gentile, 325 Brandenburg, Barbara of,—see Barbara of Brandenburg Branthôme, 368, 379, 395 Brawl, a dance, 87, 356 Brescian, comic story of a, 131 British Museum Library, 316, 417 Brittany, Anne of,—see Anne of Brittany Duke Francis II of, 395 Brunelleschi, 370 Brunet’s _Manuel du Libraire_, 417 _Manuel du Libraire, Supplément_, 417 Bruno, a character in Boccaccio, 161 Brutus, Marcus Junius, 58, 190, 347, 389 Bruyère, La, 323 Bucentaur, the, 131, 364 Bucephalia in India, founded by Alexander the Great, 274, 411 Buffalmacco, a character in Boccaccio, 161 Building architectural monuments, a duty of princes, 274 Buonarroti, Ludovico (Simoni), 343 Michelangelo,—see Michelangelo Burgundy, Charles the Bold, 396 Mary of, 395, 396, 413 Philip the Good, Duke of, 387 the order (of the Golden Fleece) at the court of, 173, 387 Burleigh, Lord, (Sir William Cecil), 316 Burney, Dr., 359 Burning Bush of Moses, 305 Burning of the ships by the Trojan women, 197-8 Bynneman, Henry, 420 Cacus, 275, 411 Cæcilia Tanaquil, Caia, 190, 389 Cæsar, Caius Julius, 54, 57, 58, 118, 205, 346, 347, 360, 362, 378, 388, 389, 401 Cæsarion, 401 Caglio, story of the bishopric of, 137 Calabria, Duke Alfonso of, afterwards Alfonso II of Naples, 130, 363 Duke Ferdinand of, (son of Federico III of Naples), 205 Calandrino (a character in Boccaccio), 127, 161, 362 Calfurnio, Giovanni, 138, 366-7 Caligula, the Emperor, 388 Calixtus III., 328 Callisthenes, 285, 414 Calmeta, Collo Vincenzo, 71, 72, 97, 98, 99, 116, 352 _Calunnia_, imputation, 384 Calzini, Egidio, 327 Camma, 194-5 Cammelli, Antonio,—see Pistoia Campani, Niccolò, da Siena,—see Strascino Campaspe, 70, 351 Cane, Facino, 355 Canossa, Conrad of, 394 Count Ludovico da, Bishop of Bayeux, 12, 20-72, 121, 138, 176, 202, 233, 236, 237, 244, 279, 292, 293, 297, 329, 332, 342, 346, 360, 361, 394, 407 Çapila, Miguel de, 420 Capitol at Rome, a woman’s effort to secure the surrender of the, 199 Captain of the Church, Duke Guidobaldo made, 10 Capua, story of the sack of, 214 Cara, Marchetto, 50, 340 Carbo, Caius Papirius, 51, 344 Cardinals: referred to in the prayer for heretics and schismatics, 138; Raphael’s retort to the two, 149, 377-8 Cardona, Don Giovanni di, 146, 375, 376 Don Pedro di, Count of Gosilano, 375 Don Ugo di, 147, 375, 376 Cards and dice, 108 Carillo, Alonso, 148, 150, 164, 377 Carlos, Don, Prince of Spain, (afterwards Charles V of Spain), 276, and see Charles V of Spain Carmenta, another name for Nicostrate, 391 Carnesecchi, G., 422 Carpaccio, 343 Carpentras, the Bishop of,—see Sadoleto, Giacomo Casanatense Library at Rome, 417 Casanova, Marcantonio, his distiches on “The Spartan Mother Slaying Her Son,” 393 Castagneta, the Count of, 384 the Countess of, 164, 384 Castel del Rio, the Lord of, 375 Castellina, story about the siege of, 130, 363 Castiglione, Anna, 314 A. P., 421 Count Baldesar, 6, 7, 75, 171, 243, 276, 313-5, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 322, 323, 325, 327, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 337, 338, 340, 342, 343, 344, 346, 347, 348, 349, 351, 356, 357, 358, 360, 361, 362, 363, 364, 367, 369, 375, 379, 382, 383, 384, 387, 388, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 398, 399, 400, 404, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, 413, 415, 419, 420, 421 his _Tirsi_, 314, 331, 332 Count Camillo, 314, 347 Castiglione, Count Cristoforo, 313 Ippolita, 314 Tealdo, Archbishop of Milan, 313 Castile, 202, 203 Castillo, Andrea, 382 a Spanish name jestingly bestowed upon a Bergamasque cow-herd, 156 Castor, 404 Castriani, Antonio da, Bishop of Cagli, 366 Castro, Violante de, 384 Cataline’s conspiracy, 200, 392 Cato, Marcus Porcius, 44, 146, 339 Cato Uticensis, Marcus Porcius, 149, 181, 190, 378 Catonian severity of countenance assumed hypocritically, 209 Catria, Mount, 309 Cattanei, Tommaso,—see Cervia, the Bishop of Cattani, Francesco, da Diacceto,—see Diacceto Catullus, 55, 126, 345, 346 Caucasia, 285 Cavaillon, the Bishop of,—see Mario de’ Maffei Cavalcalovo, Gerolamo, 420 _Cavalier servente_, 361 Cavriani Library at Mantua, 417 Cecil, Sir William, afterwards Lord Burleigh, 316 Cellini, Benvenuto, 346, 350, 379, 382, 414 Celsus, St., 383 Ceres, 197 Cerignola, humourous incident after the battle of, 147, 376 Cervia, the Bishop of, (Tommaso Cattanei), 153, 382 Cesena, Bottone da,—see Bottone Ceva, the Marquess Febus di, 71, 114, 351 the Marquess Gerardino di, 71, 351 the Marquess Giovanni di, 351 Chalcondylas, Demetrios, 313, 344, 374 Chancery, the, 159, 383 Chaperon, Jean, 315 Chapman, John Jay, 348 Chapuis, Gabriel, 420, 421 “Characters,” a work by Theophrastus, translated and afterwards expanded by La Bruyère, 323 Charlemagne, the Emperor, 413 Charles the Bold of Burgundy, 396 Charles V of Spain, 276, 314, 315, 319, 332, 337, 371, 387, 396, 413, 414 Charles VIII of France, 117, 202, 317, 327, 328, 330, 347, 360, 367, 368, 371, 372, 373, 374, 381, 395, 396, 398, 400, 409 Charlotte of Savoy, 395 Chase, the, an appropriate pastime for the courtier, 31 Chastity: discussions concerning, 162-3, 208-9; instances of, 211 et seq. Chaumont, the Grand Master de, 379-80 Cheirocrates, 411 Chess: 108-9; story of the monkey who played, 133-4 Chigi, Agostino, 383 Chigiana Library at Rome, 417 Chignones, Diego de, 139, 368 Chilon of Sparta, 408 Chios, a story of Philip V’s siege of, 200 Chiote women and their husbands, a story of, 200-1 Chiron, 64, 349 Choice of friends, 105-7 Christian Cicero, the, (Lactantius Firmianus), 392 Chrysoloras, 370 Cian, Vittorio, 334, 335, 349, 353, 367, 369, 373, 377, 378, 379, 380, 382, 383, 422