The Book of the Courtier

Ciarla, Magia, 342 Ciccarelli, Antonio, 363, 377, 420, 421 Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 5, 44, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 129, 200, 339, 346, 362, 363, 379, 389, 392, 408 Cicero’s _Brutus_, 323 _De Amicitia_, 358 _De Officiis_, 402 _De Oratore_, 324, 344, 408 _De Senectute_, 397 _Pro Archia_, 34 Cicero, the Christian, (Lactantius Firmianus), 392 Ciminelli, Serafino,—see Serafino dall’Aquila Cimon, 250, 407-8 Circe, 272, 409 Circumspection: necessary to the courtier, 59; even more necessary to the court lady, 176 Cithern: played by Socrates, 63; Achilles taught by Chiron to play upon the, 64 Civita Vecchia, 274, 410 Claudio, Scipio, 419 Claudius, the Emperor, 388 Clearchus, “tyrant of Pontus,” 264, 409 Clement VII (Giulio de’ Medici), 314, 317, 319, 331, 335, 345, 369, 374 Cleobulus of Rhodes, 408 Cleopatra, 205, 401 Clerke, Bartholomew, 420, 421 Clermont, Isabelle de, Queen of Naples, 327, 397 Cleves, Anne of, 371 Cloquemin, Loys, 420 Cloven Tongues, 305 Clymene, 408 Colin, Jacques, 315-6, 419, 420 Colonna, Caterina, 394 Fabrizio, 319 Francesco, his _Hypnerotomachia Poliphili_, 405 Marcantonio, 140, 371 Pierantonio, 371 Vittoria, Marchioness of Pescara, 1, 319-20, 323, 324, 369, 371, 394 Columbus, Christopher, 396 Comino, Giuseppe, 421 Command, he is always obeyed who knows how to, 265 Commines, 395 Commonwealths, Duke Guidobaldo in the service of the Venetian and Florentine, 10 Como, the Bishop of, 366 Concealment: of art, 35; the courtier need not conceal his good deeds, 84 Conduct, Federico Fregoso propounds rules of, 83 Confession of ignorance, discussed, 116-7 Conquest, princes ought not to aim at, 266 Consalvo de Cordoba, 139, 141, 147, 204, 313, 327, 368-9, 371, 376, 400 Constable, T. and A., printers, 422 Conti, Bernardina, 371 Continence and temperance, contrasted and discussed, 257 Continence of Scipio, the story of the, 207-8 Contrast and balance, in art and character, 82-3 Conversation, to be varied to suit the company, 92 Conversion of the heathen, 275-6 Cooke, Sir Anthony, 316 Cordoba, Consalvo de,—see Consalvo Francisco Fernandez de,—see Fernandez Corinna, 197, 391 Corio, Lodovico, 324, 422 Cornelia, 190, 344, 389 Corrozet, Gelles, 419 Corsiniana Library at Rome, Corvinus, Matthias,—see Matthias Corvinus Coscia, Andrea, 152, 380 Costume appropriate to the courtier, 102-4 Cotta, Caius Aurelius, 51, 344 Courage requisite in the courtier, 25 Court Lady, the: beginning of the discussion on, 173; must be womanly, 175; her need of beauty, 176; must be affable, vivacious, witty, not too prudish, 176; not too familiar, not a scandal-monger, tactful in conversation, 177-8; not addicted to over-rugged exercises, or too ready to dance or sing, 179; her dress, 179-80; must be no less well informed than the courtier, and understand even those exercises that she does not practise; she must also be accomplished in literature, music, painting and dancing, 180; Pallavicino objects to such multiplicity of acquirement, 181-2 COURTIER, THE BOOK OF THE. reasons for writing, 1, 7; reasons for hasty publication of, 1; “a picture of the court of Urbino,” 2; excuse for not writing in the Tuscan dialect, 3-5; purports to record actual dialogues, 8; when written, 319 Courtiers’ duty to entice their prince towards virtue, 250-1 Courtiership: the subject of the book, 7; beginning of the discussion concerning the perfection of, 19; beginning of the discussion concerning the proper aims of, 246; explanation of the word, 325 Crassus, Lucius Licinius, the orator, 44, 49, 51, 339, 344 Marcus Licinius, the triumvir, 347 Crassus Mucianus, Publius Licinius, 101, 358 Crato, Johannes, 420 Creede, T., 421 Crema, Margarita, 362 Cretans, cultivators of music, 64 Crimson velvet, jest about a captain who celebrated his infrequent victories by wearing, 152 Crivello, Biagino, 153, 381 Crotona, the five beautiful maidens of, 70, 351 Cuña, Don Pedro de,—see Messina, the Prior of Cuppis (or Coppi) da Montefolco, Bernardo de, 404 Lucrezia de, 404 Curll, E., 421 Curtius Rufus, Quintus, his History of Alexander the Great, 358 Custom, the basis of manners, 7 Cyrene, 348 Cyrus, 201, 393, 400 _Damasco_, play upon the word, 150 Dances: see Basset, Brawl, Morris-dance, _Moresca_, _Roegarze_ Dancing: affectation in, 36; how to be practised, 86-7 Dante, 323, 330, 339, 340, 363, 381 Dante’s _Divina Commedia_, 323 _Inferno_, 360 _Paradiso_, 416 _Purgatorio_, 376 _Vita Nuova_, 348 _Danzare_ and _ballare_ compared, 352-3, 382 D’Arco, MS. bibliographical notes by the late Count, at Mantua, 417 Darius III of Persia, 103, 207, 212, 358, 401 Dauson, Thomas, 420 Day, John, 420 Death from excessive joy, an instance of, 195-7 Deceased friends, the author’s eulogy of his, 2-3, 243-4 Deceptions and tricks practised by lovers, 217-8 Defects and foibles, limits to be observed in ridiculing, 128 Defender of the Faith, origin of the title, 412 Deianeira, 415 Demarata, 390 Demetrius I of Macedon, 69, 351, 392 Demetrius II of Macedon, 200, 392 Democritus, 124, 337, 361 Demosthenes, 344 Denham, Henry, 420 Dennistoun, James, 317, 322, 334 Dennistoun’s “Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino,” 335, 337, 377, 397 Derketo, a Syrian goddess, 401 Deserve, the best way to win princes’ favour is to deserve it, 96 Devices (_imprese_), 12, 330 Diacceto, Francesco Cattani da, 51, 345-6 Diacceto’s _Tre Libri d’Amore_, 346 Diana, 194 Digressions from the main subject of the work: on literary style, 38-54; on pleasantries and witticism, 120-162; on the attributes of the perfect court lady, 175-228; on Platonic love, 288-307 Dinocrates, 411 Dio of Syracuse, 285, 414-5 Diocletian, the Emperor, 404 Diogenes Laertius, 348 Diomed, 275, 411 Dionysius the Elder of Syracuse, 348, 415 Dionysius the Younger of Syracuse, 285, 415 Diotima, 197, 308, 391 Disguises, fancy dress, etc., 87-8 Disparagement, to be avoided, 115-6 Divorce, impliedly favoured, 224 Djem Othman, 141, 371-2 Dnieper, comic story of words frozen in crossing the, 132-3 Dolce, Ludovico, 420 Dolet, Estienne, 419 Domenico, a printer at Venice, 420 Donatello, 341 Donato, Geronimo, 136, 365-6 Don Carlos, Prince of Spain, (afterwards Charles V of Spain), 276, and see Charles V of Spain Donkey, story of peasant who had lost his, 128-9 _Double entente_, instances of allowable, 125 Doves, story of a tiresome fellow and his, 148 Dovizi, Bernardo,—see Bibbiena Pietro, 321 Drake, S., 421 Drawing, a necessary accomplishment for the courtier, 65 Dreams, Alfonso I’s jesting advice to a servant regarding, 153 Dress: the courtier’s, 102-4; an index of character, 103-5; the court lady’s, 179-80 Ducats: as a laudatory simile, 140-1; story of the prior who had borrowed ten thousand, 150-1 Duchess of Urbino, the,—see Gonzaga, Eleanora and Elisabetta Duel: the courtier to know how to conduct a, 30; story about a, 152 _Due torti_, play upon the words, 151 Duhamel, l’Abbé, 421 “Duke Borso,”—see Este, Borso d’, Duke of Ferrara “Duke Federico,”—see Montefeltro, Federico di, Duke of Urbino “Duke Filippo,”—see Visconti, Filippo Maria “Duke Valentino,”—see Borgia, Cesare Durán, Alfonso, 421 Dürer, Albert, 342, 343 Earth, story about disposing of earth from an excavation, 129-30 Edward III of England, 387 Edward IV of England, 413 Edward VII of England, 380 Egano, a character in Boccaccio, 164, 165 Egnatius, a character in Catullus, 55, 346 Egypt, the pyramids of, said to have been built in order to keep the Egyptians busy, 267 Eleanora of Portugal, 396 Elias, 305 Elis in Achaia, 171, 387 Elizabeth of England, 316, 329 Elizabeth of Portugal, 387 Elizabeth of York, 412, 413 Elmo, St., 147, 376 Elocution, the essentials of, 4 Emanuel I of Portugal, 133, 364 Emilia Pia,—see Pia Empedocles, 337 Employment of the courtier’s qualities, etc., beginning of Federico Fregoso’s discourse upon, 80 England, the author’s absence in, 8, 276, 325 Ennius, Quintus, 44, 49, 148, 339 Envy, the courtier to avoid arousing, 82 Epaminondas, 64, 250, 349, 408 Ephesus, 68 Epicharis, 192, 390 Epimetheus, 252, 408 Equicola, Mario, 398 Equipment of the cavalier, the necessity for proper, 85 Erasmus, 348, 357, 367 Erasmus, St., 376 Eris, the goddess of discord, 387 Errea, Elvira, 368 Erythræans, the, 200, 393 Este, Alfonso d’, Duke of Ferrara, 322, 330, 363, 399, 400 Beatrice d’, Duchess of Milan, 204, 333, 336, 338, 352, 363, 381, 394, 398, 399 Bianca Maria d’, 394 Borso d’, Duke of Ferrara, 77, 355, 363, 384 Ercole d’, Duke of Ferrara, 129, 330, 336, 363, 398, 399 Ginevra d’, 394 Ippolito d’, Cardinal, 22-3, 329, 336, 363 Isabella d’, Marchioness of Mantua, 204, 332, 333, 334, 338, 341, 343, 352, 363, 381, 394, 398-9, 409, 413 Niccolò d’, Duke of Ferrara, 355, 363, 384 Este family, eulogy of the women of the, 202 Ettore Romano Giovenale, 71, 351-2 Europe and Asia, united by Alexander the Great, 275 Eurydice, 384 Evander, 44, 197, 339, 391 Evil: the correlative and necessary accompaniment of good, 78; ignorance is the root of, 254-6 Exalted station attained by several members of the court of Urbino, 244 Exercises: those proper for the courtier, 29-31; those inappropriate for the courtier, 31 Eye, story of the quack and the peasant who had lost an, 150 Fabié, Antonio Maria, 320, 367, 377, 383, 417, 421 Fabius Pictor, Quintus, 65, 349 Fagiani, Bernardin, 420 Falsehood, the origin of princes’ errours, 248 Fancy dress and masks, 87-8 Farri, Domenico, 420 Fasanini, Landomia, 383 Favorinus, 357 Favours, not in general to be sought by the courtier, 94-6 Federico III of Naples, 205, 358, 383, 397, 399, 400 Fedra (Tommaso Inghirami), 138, 367, 375 Feltre, Vittorino da,—see Vittorino da Feltre Ferdinand I of Naples, 327, 363, 383, 397, 400 Ferdinand II of Naples, 10, 35, 118, 141, 204, 327-8, 368, 397, 400 Ferdinand the Catholic: referred to as “the king,” 148, 164; mentioned, 202, 203, 219, 313, 327, 359, 368, 371, 377, 396, 397, 400, 412, 413 Ferdinand the Just, King of Aragon and Sicily, 375 Fernandez de Cordoba, Francesco, 420 Ferrara, the Dukes of,—see Este Fetti, Fra Mariano,—see Fra Mariano Fetti Fiaccadori, 421 Ficino, 345 _Fierezza_, boldness, 83, 356 Fiery Chariot of Elias, 305 Fig-tree, story about a man who begged a branch from his neighbour’s, 149 Filiberta of Savoy, 320, 346 Filiberto, Duke of Savoy, 396 Filippello’s wife, a character in Boccaccio, 164, 165, 166 Filippo, Duke,—see Visconti, Filippo Maria Finger-rings, story of Alfonso I’s, 146 Firmianus, Lactantius, “the Christian Cicero,” 392 First impression: amusing story illustrating the importance of, 111-2; the courtier to try to make a good, 113 Five nuns and the friar, story of the, 136-7 Flogged, story of man condemned to be, 129 Florence, 39, 43, 44, 140, 151 Florence, the Archbishop of, (Roberto Folco), 142, 372 Florentine Council, humourous sally made in the, 149-50