The Book of the Courtier

the Unico Aretino’s sonnet concerning, 17, 335-6 Sabine women and their Roman husbands, the story of the, 198-9 Sables, story of the merchant of Lucca and his, 132-3 Sade, Hughes de, 405 Sadoleto, Giacomo, 139, 331, 369 Giovanni, 369 Saguntine women, bravery of, 201, 393 St. Ambrose, Jacques Colin, Abbot of, 315 St. Angelo, the Castle of, 367 St. Celsus, 383 St. Elmo, 147, 376 St. Erasmus, 376 St. Francis, 308, 416 St. George: the English order of (the Garter), 173, 387; mentioned, 404 St. Gregory, 393 St. Jerome, 188 St. Jerome’s Epistle on Widowhood, 388 St. Louis, 395 St. Mary Magdalen, 308 St. Michael, the French order of, 173, 387 St. Nazarius, 383 St. Paul, 129, 308, 363 St. Peter and St. Paul, story about a picture in which Raphael had represented, 149, 377-8 St. Peter’s, the Church of: story of the prelate who stooped on entering, 144; the rebuilding of, 274, 410 St. Sebastian, the basilica of, 404 St. Stephen, 308 Salerno, the Archbishop of,—see Fregoso, Federico Salian priests, 44, 339 Sallaza dalla Pedrada, 140, 370 Sallust, 346 Saluzzo, Rizzarda di, 363 Salvadori, Giulio, 421 Samber, Robert, 421 San Bonifacio, Count Ludovico da, 139, 369 San Celso, 159 San Gallo Gate at Florence, 145 San Giacomo, the Church of, at Padua, 384 San Giorgio, Giovanni Antonio, "the Alexandrian Cardinal,"—see Alexandrian San Leo, story of Duke Guidobaldo and the castellan who had surrendered, 147, 376-7 San Magno, Masella di, 358 Sannazaro, Giacopo, 113, 358-9 Giacopo Niccolò, 358 San Pietro ad Vincula, the Cardinal of,—see Rovere, Galeotto della San Sebastiano, story of an outrage committed near the Church of, 215-6 Sansecondo, Giacomo, 123, 361 Sanseverino, Galeazzo, 34, 337-8 Roberto, 337 San Silvestro, picture painted by Raphael for the Church of, 378 Sansoni, G. C., 421, 422 Santacroce, Alfonso, 146, 375 Santa Maria in Portico, the Cardinal of,—see Bibbiena Santi, Giovanni, 342, 376 Raffaello,—see Raphael Sanzio, Raffaello,—see Raphael Sappho, 197, 391 Sardanapalus, 206, 401 Savona, 216, 404 Savonarola, 328, 363 Savoy, Charlotte of, 395 Filiberta of, 320, 346 Filiberto, Duke of, 396 Louise of, 346 Scarmiglione da Foglino, 377 Schaeffer, Carl, 421 Schultz, a printer, 421 Scipio Africanus Maximus, 207, 347, 377, 401, 402, 408 Scipio Africanus the Younger, 51, 58, 106, 146, 190, 205, 210, 250, 340, 344, 358, 408 Scipio Nasica, Publius Cornelius, 148, 377 Sciron, 275, 411 “Scissors,” 192 Scoto, Girolamo, 420 Scott, Mary Augusta, 316, 332 Sculpture and painting, the comparative merits of, 66-8, 349-50 Scythia, 285 Scythians: a custom among the, 266; mentioned, 414 Sebastian, St., the basilica of, 404 Sebastiano, a brother of Fra Serafino, 335 Self-confidence requisite in the courtier, 28 Self-depreciation, to be avoided, 117 Self-praise discussed, 25-7 Self-seclusion of princes, 249 Selim I of Turkey, 372, 388 Semiramis, 205, 401 Seneca’s _Hippolytus_, 367 Sera, Francesca del, 343 Neri del, 343 Serafino, Fra,—see Fra Serafino master, 150 Serafino Ciminelli d’Aquila, 142, 352, 373 Serassi, Pierantonio, 421 Seres, William, 420 Sertenas, Vincent, 419 Seven Sages of Greece, the, 408 Sforza, Anna, first wife of Alfonso d’Este, 399 Battista, Duchess of Urbino, 317, 326, 394 Bianca, 337 Bianca Maria, 396 Caterina, 336-7 Francesco, Duke of Milan, 326, 341, 355, 381, 394, 397, 398 Francesco Maria, 399 Galeazzo Maria, Duke of Milan, 337, 381 Giangaleazzo, Duke of Milan, 381, 398 Ippolita Maria, Queen of Naples, 327, 397, 398 Ludovico il Moro, Duke of Milan, 153, 313, 327, 332, 336, 337, 341, 371, 373, 381, 395, 396, 398, 399, 409 Maximilian, 399 Muzio Attendolo, 381 Shakspere, 403 Sibyls, the, 197, 390 Sicily, 195 Sidney, Sir Philip, his “Arcadia,” 359 Siena: retort made to a townsman of, 136; story about the Emperor and, 143; the Cardinal of, 351 Silius Italicus, Caius, 52, 53, 346 Silva, Diego de, Count of Portalegre, 317 Miguel de, Bishop of Viseu, 1, 317 Silvestri, Giovanni, 421 Simbeni, 420 Similes and metaphors in pleasantry, 142 Simone, a character in Boccaccio, 161 Simoni, Ludovico Buonarroti, 343 Simpleton, retort made by Lorenzo de’ Medici to a, 145 Sinning against light, 255-6 _Si non caste, tamen caute_, 189, 388 Sinoris, 194, 195 Sismondi, 328 Sixtus IV, 318, 326, 328, 359, 396, 404 Slater, H., 421 Slavonia, jest about a comedy so elaborate as to need for its setting all the wood in, 152 Social inferiors, consorting with, 85-6 Socrates, 56, 57, 63, 78, 90, 181, 308, 344, 348, 356, 391, 402, 408 Solomon, 220, 405 Solon of Athens, 391, 408 Sonzogno, Edoardo, 324, 422 Sophocles, 402 Sorbon, Robert, 346-7 Sorbonne, the, 57, 346-7 Spain, 1, 204, 207, 315 Spaniards: martial exercises excelled in by, 31; affirmed by Calmeta to be the masters of courtiership, 97-8; discussion whether they are presumptuous, 98; said to excel in chess, 109; their grave manners, 114-5 Spanish fashion of dress: affected by some, 102; sobriety of, 103 Spartan women, bravery of, 201 Speaking and writing, to be governed by essentially the same rules, 40 _Sprezzatura_ (nonchalance), 35, 338 Squarcione, Francesco, 341 Stadia, computation of the size of Hercules’s body based upon a comparison of the different, 171 Stagira, 285, 414 Stasicrates, 411 Statira of Pontus, 389 Stature, the courtier to be of moderate, 29 _Stazioni_, 136, 366 Stephen, St., 308 Stesichorus, 294, 415 Stilico, 313 Stoic philosophers, 82 Strascino (Niccolò Campani da Siena), 128, 362 Strozzi, Palla degli, 140, 370 Suetonius, 360 Sulla, Lucius Cornelius, 58, 347 Sulpicius Rufus, Publius, 51, 344 Sumptuary regulations, commended, 278 Swimming, an accomplishment proper for the courtier, 31 Symonds, John Addington, 315, 327, 339, 345, 359, 360, 369, 370, 409, 412 Synattus, 194, 195 Synesius, 357 “T-A” (a printer’s initials), 419 Tacitus, Cornelius, 52, 53, 346, 368 Taft, _taftah_, taffety, 364 Tarpeia, 392 Tarquinius Priscus, 190, 389 Tasso, the poet, 333 Girolamo, a printer, 421 Tatius, Titus, 198, 199, 392 Teeth, the beauty of, 55 Temperament of men and women discussed, 186-7 Temperance and continence, contrasted and discussed, 257 Tenda, Beatrice di, 355 Tennis: a pastime appropriate to the courtier, 31; to be practised only as a diversion, 86 Tennyson’s “Cup,” Castiglione’s version of the story on which was founded, 194-5, 390 Teramo, the Bishop of,—see Porcaro, Camillo Terpandro, Antonio Maria, 12, 334 Thales of Miletus, 408 Themistocles, 64, 76, 275, 349 Themistus of Syracuse, 389 Theodatus, 393 Theodolinda, Queen of the Lombards, 202, 393 Theodora, wife of the Emperor Theophilus, 202, 393 wife of the Emperor Justinian, 393 Theodoric the Great, 393 Theophilus, the Emperor, 393 Theophrastus, 5, 323 Theseus, 106, 275, 358, 411 Thetis, 387 Tiber, first Trojan landing at the mouth of the, 198 Ticknor, the historian of Spanish literature, 315 Time, the true test of literary and other excellence, 6 Time and manner of employing the courtier’s accomplishments, 81 et seq. Timeliness, a requisite in pleasantries, 154 Timur the Tartar, 387 Tintoretto, 351 Tipografia dei Classici Italiani, la, 421 _Tirsi_, an eclogue by Castiglione, 314, 331, 332 Tisias (Stesichorus), 415 Titian, 313, 320, 343, 407 Titus Tatius, 198, 199, 392 Todeschini, Francesco,—see Pius III Toldo, Pietro, 315 Tolosa, Paolo, 151, 378 Tomeo, Niccolò,—see Leonico Tommaso, Antonio di, 375 Tommaso, messer, of Pisa, 195-6 Tomyris, 205, 400 Torello, Antonio, 151, 378-9 Count Guido, di Montechiarugolo, 314 Ippolita, wife of the author, 314, 369 Torre, Geronimo della, 366 Marcantonio della, 136, 137, 366 Torresano, Federico, 419 Tortis, Alvise de, 419 Total abstinence, 258 Touans, Pedro, 419 Trajan, the Emperor, 410 Tricks and deceptions practised by lovers, 217-8 Trifles, instances of books written about, 93, 357 Trino, Comin da, 420 Trojan Horse, the, 244 Trojan settlement in Italy, a story of the, 197-8 Trojan War, the origin of the, 387 Trombone, story about playing the, 131 Troy: Trojan settlement in Italy after the fall of, 197-8; the valour of Trojan women long prevented the fall of, 219; the fall of, cited as an instance of the woes wrought by women’s beauty, 293 True Lovers’ Arch, 222 Truth, the courtier’s chief aim should be to inform his prince of the, 247 Tudor, Arthur, 412 Catherine, widow of Henry V of England, 412-3 Edmund, Earl of Richmond, 412 Henry, son of Edmund,—see Henry VII Henry, son of Henry,—see Henry VIII Margaret, daughter of Henry, 413 Mary, Queen of France, daughter of Henry, 371 Tullius,—see Cicero, Marcus Tullius Turin, Duke Agilulph of, 393 Turk, the Grand, (Bajazet II),—see Bajazet II of Turkey Turkish fashion of dress: affected by some, 102; peculiarities of, 372 Turks and Moors, 275 Turler, Hieronymus, 316, 420 Turnus, 44, 339 Tuscan dialect: author’s reasons for not using, 3-5; discussion of, 39-54; not to be regarded as sole criterion of Italian usage, 48 Tuscany, 4, 5, 39, 40, 43, 44 Duke Boniface of, 394 Tutula, 392 Tyrant, witticism against a tyrant falsely reputed to be generous, 145 Tyrants, evils suffered by, 263-4 Ubaldini, Bernardino, 376 Ottaviano, 147, 376 Ubicini, the brothers, 421 _Ufficio grande_ and _ufficio della Madonna_, 137-8, 366 Ugolini, Paulo, 421 Ulysses, 284, 409 Unico Aretino, 12, 16, 17, 80, 81, 179, 228, 229, 230, 333, 335, 352 Urbino, 8, 9, 13, 80 a Count of, in 1216, 325 daily life at the court of, 10-2 the Duchess of,—see Gonzaga, Eleanora and Elisabetta the Duke of,—see Montefeltro and Rovere Usage: the law of good speech, 3; but not bad usage, 48; who establish it, 48; changeable, 49 Utility, an element of beauty, 295 Valentino, Duke,—see Borgia, Cesare Valerius Maximus’s “Memorable Doings and Sayings,” 390, 401 Vanozza, Rosa, 377 Varano, Costanza da, 394 Varchi, 348 Variety of occupations, inculcated, 31 Varlungo, the priest of, (a character in Boccaccio), 127 Varro, Marcus Terentius, 54, 346 Vasari, Giorgio, 341, 343, 350 Vatican Library at Rome, 417 Vaulting on horseback, proper for the courtier, 31 Venery, an appropriate pastime for the courtier, 31 Venetians: their manner of riding ridiculed, 37, 130; addicted to the wearing of puffed sleeves, 104 Venice, 131, 147 Venus, 309 Venus Armata, 199, 392 Venus Calva, 199, 392 Vernacular (i.e., Italian), the courtier to be proficient in the use of the, 59 Vernia, Paolo Niccolò,—see Nicoletto Verocchio, 341 Verulam, Lord, (Francis Bacon), 316 Vesme, Count Carlo Baudi di, 357, 417, 421 Vespasiano, 326 Vesta, 393 Vestal Virgins, 201 Vinci, Leonardo da,—see Leonardo da Vinci Viol, 88-9, 356 Viotti, Antonio di, 419 Virgil, 41, 44, 47, 49, 52, 53, 339, 359 _Virtù, la_, a feminine quality, 169