INDEX.
A.
Abbioso, Bishop, his courtiership, [329]
Academies, tendency of, in Italy, [398]
Agricola, theologian, draws up the Interim, [135]
Albert of Brandenburg, [171]
throws himself into Schweinfurth, [172]
is driven out of Schweinfurth, [176]
Aldobrandini, Cardinal, dedicated works to Isabella Andreini, [212]
Alexander VII. elected, [362]
his replies to Olympia's advances, [363]
banishes Olympia to Orvieto, [364]
Alphonso I. Duke of Ferrara, [37]
rides through Ferrara at the Beffana, [45]
stolen visit to his bride, [47]
his difficulties with the church, [50]
Alternatives for an old lady, [21]
Aminta of Tasso, [218]
Andreini, Isabella, her birth, [205]
contemporary with Shakspeare, [206]
her titles, [210]
goes to France, [211]
medal struck in her honour, [ib.]
anagrams on her name, [212]
praises of, by her contemporaries, [ib.]
her irreproachable character, [214]
her death and epitaph, [ib.]
her "Mirtilla," [216]
her letters, [ib.]
her dialogues, [217]
no account of her characters, [218]
Andreini, Francesco, Isabella's husband, [213]
Andreini Giovanni Batista, Isabella's son, [211]
Angelio of Bargo, Astrologer, [28]
Anna d'Este, her birth,[77]
Calcagnini's letter to her, [78]
Curione's praises of her, [ib.]
her affection for Olympia Morata, [89]
her marriage, [109]
Antonio de' Medici, birth of, [264]
Arcadia and the Arcadians, [399]
nicknames, [404]
falsehood in the matter of Corilla's crowning, [406]
Assassinations, common in Florence, [225], [236]
Augsburg in the sixteenth century, [143]
Avvogaria, register of, obliteration in, [221]
B.
Bâle, Olympia would willingly settle at, [155]
Baker, anecdote of, about B. Cappello, [223]
Barbara, Olympia Morata's maid, [163]
Bayle, his remark on Isabella Andreini's epitaph, [215]
"Beffana," curious custom, [44]
Belvidere, near Ferrara, gardens of, [94]
Bembo, anecdote of, [61]
his character, [105]
Olympia Morata's epitaph on him, [106]
Bianca Cappello, early character, [223]
her journey to Florence, [224]
confined to her husband's house in Florence, [225]
her personal appearance, [226]
receives promise of marriage from Francesco, [234]
probably cognisant of her husband's murder, [236]
her character, [241]
balances her accounts, [257]
fictitious autobiography of, [258]
her magical practices, [261]
plot to impose a false heir on the Duke, [262]
her fears, [264]
progress in crime, [266]
real nature of her witchery, [268]
her bold step with Francesco, [ib.]
goes into retirement, [273]
her ascendancy over the Duke, [ib.]
entertains the Court in the Oricellari gardens, [276]
suborns Francesco's confessor, [290]
her reception at Bologna, [291]
her marriage with Francesco, [292]
her coronation as daughter of St. Mark, [299]
becomes reconciled to the Cardinal, [304]
her claims respecting her daughtership of St. Mark, [311]
her repeated pregnancies, [313]
her unhappy life at Pratolino, [316]
her family feeling, [318]
at Cerveto, [320]
declares herself again with child, [322]
her interview with Pietro, [325]
her pregnancy again comes to nothing, [329]
her death, [332]
different theories respecting it, [333], et seq.
post–mortem examination, [338]
grounds of Ferdinando's hatred for her, [342]
her burial, [343]
pasquinades on her, [344]
Boccaccio, Tullia's opinion of his works, [24]
Olympia Morata's translation from, [103]
Bodoni's volume on Corilla's coronation, [403]
Bolsec, Jerome, [111]
his disputes with Calvin, [112]
Bonaventuri, Pietro, his condemnation, [221]
deceives Bianca, [224]
receives an appointment at Court, [233]
lover of Cassandra Ricci, [235]
murdered in the streets of Florence, [236]
Books, high value of, in the sixteenth century [160]
Borso, Duke of Ferrara, [34]
C.
Cafaggiuolo, villa of, [255]
Calcagnini, Celio, [56]
his message to Olympia Morata, [62].
Calvin at Ferrara, [72]
turned out from Ferrara, [75]
prosecutes Jerome Bolsec, [112]
Cappello palace, situation of, [222]
Caraffa, Cardinal, [80]
Casino, importance of, in Italian domestic economy, [229]
Catherine de' Medici, her severe answer to Francesco, [309]
Catherine II. of Russia, invites Corilla, [401]
Cerreto, Ducal Villa, [320]
Classical studies, female, in sixteenth century, [2], et seq.
Clement VII., Pope, his dealings with the Duke of Ferrara, [51], et seq.
Collar, Duke Borso's golden, [34]
Columbano, Princess, takes La Corilla to Naples, [396]
Comedy, Italian, in the sixteenth century, [208]
Corilla, La, her real name and birth, [395]
drives a thriving trade, [399]
employed by Maria Theresa, [401]
invited by Catherine of Russia, [401]
by Joseph II., [402]
enters Arcady, [403]
proposals for her crowning, [405]
the difficulty in the way, [ib.]
subjects in which she was examined, [408]
her examination, [409], et seq.
her coronation, [113]
pasquinades on her retirement to Florence and death, [416]
Cosmo I., sonnet to, [15]
Cosmo de' Medici, court of, [227]
Cosmo I. of Florence, founds the Florentine academy, [398]
Creeds, affairs of head not heart, [122]
Curione, Celio, [56]
first acquaintance with Morato, [65]
his adventures, [ib.]
conversations with Morato, [66]
visit to Ferrara, [69]
his letter to Olympia's mother, [140]
encourages Olympia in her classical studies, [147]
D.
Dante's obligations to Guerrino il Meschino, [22]
Death, the desire for, [194]
Demimonde and Monde in sixteenth century, [16]
Dialogue on Love, Tullia's, [27]
Diction, over–attention to, in Italy, [83]
Dominicans, church of, at Bologna, [366]
Domenichi Ludovico, [17]
Donati, Maria, B. Cappello's servant, [222]
Drama, Italian literature weak in, [206]
E.
Eleonora di Teledo, patronises Tullia, [28]
her death, [228]
Eleonora di Garzia, [240]
her murder, [255]
Emilio, Olympia's brother accompanies her to Italy, [141]
falls out of window, [150]
his death, [198]
Erbach, counts of, [178]
receive Olympia, [179]
their mode of life, [180]
F.
Family feeling in Italy, [317]
Famine in Ferrara, [49]
Fannio, the martyr, [115], [118]
Ferdinando de' Medici, Cardinal, [237]
his causes of discontent, [245]
his knowledge of all that passed at Florence, [246]
receives the confession of the woman who managed the introduction of Don Antonio, [266]
his indignation, [267]
his change of conduct after the death of the Duchess Giovanna, [287]
goes to Florence in 1579, [293]
his anger at leaving his brother's marriage, [294]
his pecuniary difficulties, [304]
his reconciliation with Bianca, [305]
his misgivings respecting Bianca's intentions, [319], et seq.
again in Florence, [326]
refuses his brother's invitation, [328]
visits Francesco for the Villeggiatura, [330]
suspected of poisoning Francesco and Bianca, [334], [337], et seq.
his conduct after the death of his brother, [341]
his probable motives, ib.
succeeds peaceably to his brother, [345]
Fernandez, Fernando, La Corilla's husband, [396]
Festivities at Lucrezia Borgia's marriage, [44], [48]
Filippo, son of Giovanna, his death, [312]
Flach, M. invited by Olympia to translate some of Luther's works into Italian, [158]
"Flourishing;" what is the period of a lady's, [20]
Forca, via della, in Florence, Corilla's home, [393]
Francesco de' Medici, [236]
his character, [238]
his court, [242]
his character, [ib.]
his temper, [243]
his wealth, [244]
his interview with Orsini, [247]
easily duped by Bianca's trick, [264]
becomes an accomplice in introducing a false heir, [270]
in the Oricellari gardens, [281]
feelings on the death of his wife, [284]
his wishes and fears to marry Bianca, [285]
his discontent with the court of France, [288]
sends poison and assassins into France, [289]
consults the church with reference to his marriage with Bianca, [290]
marries Bianca, [292]
entertains [170] Venetians, [298]
his munificence to them, [303]
his troubles about his title, [306]
why he showed no grief at his son's death, [312]
his life at Pratolino, [315]
his cruelty to Camilla de' Martelli, [321]
his suspicions and strange conduct, [327]
invites the Cardinal to Florence, [328]
his death, [332]
different theories respecting it, [333], et seq.
his illness, [335]
circumstances attending his death, [340]
Frari at Venice, Archives, [220]
Fugger family, [143]
ridiculous blunder respecting their name, [144]
their residence, [ib.]
G.
Gallerati, Dr., his prescriptions for E. Sirani, [381]
his opinion on her death, [382]
Gelli, Giambatista, his comedy of the "Sporta,"[210]
German cities refuse to accept the Interim, [136]
Gibbon, on Lucrezia Borgia, [40]
Ginori, Lorenzo, pays the cost of Corilla's crowning, [406]
Giovanni de' Medici, his embassy to Venice, [297]
Giraldi, G. Gregorio, [56]
his verses to Olympia Morata, [88]
Giulia of Ferrara, [7]
Gloucester, Duke of, present at Corilla's crowning, [410]
Grünthler, Andreas, [124]
his wooing, [125]
marriage, [126]
returns to Germany, [127]
his prospects in Germany, [133]
prolonged absence from his wife, [138]
returns to bring his wife to Germany, [139]
attends Hermann in his illness, [147]
settles at Schweinfurth, [151]
rejects appointment offered at Lintz, [166]
struck down by pestilence in Schweinfurth, [173]
obtains a chair at Heidelberg, [181]
obliged to borrow money, [19]
in the pestilence at Heidelberg, [196]
his death, [198]
Guarini, Alexander, [56]
Guerrazzi, his dialogue between Francesco and his brother Pietro de' Medici, [250]
Guerrino el Meschino, origin of, [23]
H.
Hammelburg, Olympia's escape to, [177]
Heidelberg, in the sixteenth century, [186]
pestilence breaks out in, [196]
Hercules I., Duke of Ferrara, [35]
his reply to Venice, [36]
his piety, [37]
his death, [49]
resists the Pope, [147]
Hercules II., of Ferrara, his dealings with the church, [73]
his unwillingness to receive Paul III., [93]
Hermann, George, of Augsburg, [138]
Hirschhorn, evening in the inn at, [182]
History, happy times have little, [168]
the makers of, [ib.]
Hubert, Thomas, of Liège, [138]
Humidi, academy of, [15]
Hydrostatic difficulties of the Duke of Ferrara, [97]
disputes arising from, [98], et seq.
I.
Improvisation, talents needful for, [400]
tendencies of, [401]
Indulgence to Ferrara, [48]
Innocent X., Pope, [351]
his early preferments, [352]
election to the papacy, [353]
his death, [360]
Innspruck, Charles V. in winter quarters at, [169]
Interim, the, [135]
Isabella Orsini, [228]
her character, [241]
her death, [248]
judgment of history on her, [249]
Italy loses her pre–eminence of civilisation, [123]
Italian nature, dramatic, [206]
J.
Joan of Austria, marriage with Francesco de' Medici, [231]
her unhappy position, [237], [241], [271]
her extravagance, [272]
has a son, ib.
her death, [282]
Joan, Pope, story of, [346]
Julius II., Pope, designs on Ferrara, [50]
Julius III., Pope, [114]
L.
Ladies, learned, their number in the sixteenth century, [1]
Lavinia della Rovere, her friendship with Olympia Morata, [101]
her religious inquiries and indifferentism, [102]
visits Fannio in his prison, [116]
her faithful friendship, [120]
not happy, [132]
Leo X., Pope, his designs on Ferrara, [50]
Letters, difficulty of sending from Germany to Italy, [156]
L'Humore of Bologna, anecdote of, [17]
Lintz, Chair of Medicine there offered to Grünthler, [165]
Literature, safe, princes who patronise, [397]
Lucia Tolomelli, the maid in the Sirani family, [374]
her troubles with her mistress, [375]
her escapade with the tinker, [376]
imprisoned in the poor–house, [377]
her fairings, [ib.]
suspected of poisoning E. Sirani, [383]
grounds of suspicion, [384]
claimed by the church, [385]
her second arrest and examination, [ib.]
her defence, [386]
her exile, [387]
Lucrezia Borgia, her marriage, [37], [42]
her previous character, [38]
defended by Roscoe, [39]
moral phenomenon, [41]
entry into Ferrara, [46]
evening of her life and death, [51]
contrasted with Duchess Renée, [59]
M.
Macchiavelli, his comedy "Mandragola,"[210]
Malvasia, his history of E. Sirani, [391]
Marco, St. Piazza of, in Florence, [225]
Casino di, [229]
Marot, Clement, at Ferrara, [75]
his lines on Duchess Renée, [76]
Martelli, Camilla, [228], [240]
comes out of her convent–prison, [321]
Martinetti, his history, [335]
Material prosperity disclaimed as an object by Catholic writers, [30]
Mattaselani, Dr., his evidence respecting E. Sirani's death, [387]
Maurice, Elector of Saxony, [170]
Medici family, domestic tragedy, [227]
Michiel, Giovanni, envoy from Venice to Florence, [297]
Mondragone, Marchesa, arranges meeting of Francesco and Bianca, [229], [230]
Montaigne, his description of Bianca Cappello, [226]
Morata, Olympia, her birth, [55-60]
early promise and beauty, [62]
first seeds of Protestant doctrine, [67]
her acquirements at thirteen years old, [70]
flattered by all Ferrara, [71]
becomes an inmate of the Court, [79]
her delight at her new position, [82]
her earliest compositions, [83]
her lecturing at sixteen, [84]
specimen of her elocution, [86]
verses to her from Giraldi, [88]
her Greek verses, [90]
her female friendships, [100]
early religious indifferentism, and subsequent strong convictions, [103], [107]
translations from Boccaccio, [103]
her Greek epitaph on Cardinal Bembo, [106]
at her father's death–bed, [109]
dismissed from the palace, [110]
visits Fannio in his prison, [116]
commencement of religious convictions, [117]
changed circumstances, [119]
her lines on virginity, [ib.]
letter to Curione on her time of disgrace, [120]
commencement of regeneration, [122]
her love, [126]
her marriage, [ib.]
separated from her husband, [127]
her letter to her husband, [128]
detention of her dresses by the Court, [130]
dialogue with Lavinia della Rovere, [132]
finally leaves Italy, [139]
her journey across the Alps, [141]
her letter to Giraldi, [146]
misgivings as to her classical studies, [ib.]
Curione encourages her, [147]
her stay with Hermann, [ib.]
urges Lavinia della Rovere to save Fannio, [148]
her stay with John Sinapi, [149]
her ideas of a special providence, [150], [174]
settles at Schweinfurth, [151]
her real name questioned, [152]
is an interesting character both to the religionist and the moralist, [ib.]
letter to Curione, [155]
sends money to her mother, [156]
letter to Lavinia della Rovere, [157]
moderation of her Calvinism, [ib.]
her dialogue between Philotima and Theophila, [159]
receives her books from Italy, [160]
receives Theodora Sinapi, [161]
lectures a backsliding divine, [165]
tends her husband in his sickness, [174]
her letter during the siege to Lavinia della Rovere, [174]
letter to her sister describing her flight from Schweinfurth, [176]
miserable journey to Erbach, [178]
her health destroyed, [179]
at Hirschhorn, [183]
is offered a chair of Greek at Heidelberg, [184]
receives letter and books from Curione, [187]
ignorance of German, [190]
declines to be at the Court of the Electress of Heidelberg, [192]
receives Theodora Sinapi at Heidelberg, [192]
theology of her letters, [193]
her desire for death, [194]
her last letter to Curione, [196]
her last moments, [197]
her epitaph, [198]
her European reputation, [199]
the basis of it, [200]
value of her story to us, [203]
Morato, Peregrino, fixes himself at Ferrara, [55]
his Protestantism, [60]
his criticism on Bembo, [61]
his exile, [63]
his training of his daughter, [64]
his difficulties, [ib.]
returns to Ferrara, [70]
appointed tutor to the Duke's sons, [ib.]
his instructions to his daughter, [85]
his illness and death, [108]
O.
Ori, Matthew, inquisitor, [113]
"Oricellari Orti," their history, [274]
given to Bianca Cappello, [275]
a night's amusement there, [276]
P.
Paganism of Italian society in the sixteenth century, [3]
Palazzo Vecchio at Florence, chapel in, [292]
Pallavicini, Princess, La Corilla's patroness, [395]
Pamfili, Camillo, created cardinal, [353]
his gross ignorance, [354]
his marriage, [356]
succeeds to his mother's wealth, [364]
Pamfili, G. Batista, Olympia's husband, [348]
Pamfili, Olympia, her birth, [348]
her marriage, [ib.]
her ambitious plans, [349]
her avarice, [354]
her venality, [355]
banished from the Vatican, [358] returns, [ib.]
her mode of life in the Vatican, [359]
her last simoniacal bargain, [360]
her plans after the death of Innocent, [361]
makes advances to Alexander VII., [363]
banished from Rome, [364]
her death, [ib.]
Pavia, Curione at, [68]
Pedagogues lay, a new social feature in the sixteenth century, [54]
their social position, [64]
Pellegrina, Bianca's daughter, birth of, [232]
Persecution increases, [195]
Pestilence in Ferrara, [49]
Petrarch, crowned at the Capitol, [394]
Philip II. of Spain, odious to the German electors, [169]
informed of Francesco's marriage with Bianca, [294]
approves of the murder of Donna Eleonora de' Medici, [256]
godfather to the Duchess Giovanna's son, [273]
Phœnix burning in Ferrara, [51]
Picchena, Curzio, envoy employed by Francesco de' Medici as a poisoner, [289]
Pietro de' Medici, [228]
his character, [239]
his marriage, [240]
urged to re–marry, [319]
stays at Florence to watch Bianca, [321]
his letter to the Cardinal, [322]
ill–treated by the Duke, [324]
his interview with Bianca, [325]
his report of it to the Cardinal, [326]
Po, river, difficulties connected with, [97]
Poetesses, Tiraboschi's list of, [1]
Poggio–a–Caiano, ducal villa, [321]
the Duke's death there, [332]
Bianca's death there, [ib.]
Pratolino, Ducal villa, [314]
Progress, moral, proofs of, [42]
Psalms translated into Greek by Olympia, and set to music by Grünthler, [164]
Publishers, eminent, send presents of books to Olympia, [187]
Puteano, Ericio, his inscription on Isabella Andreini, [211]
R.
Rabelais on the Fuggers, [143]
Renée of France, her marriage with Hercules II., [57]
her person and character, [58]
her Protestantism, [59]
theological difficulties with her husband, [72]
secret reception of Calvin, [72]
scene in her closet, [74]
in durance, [81]
abandons Olympia, [113], [130]
Reno river, difficulties connected with, [98]
Respectability, prized by Italians, [238]
Riario family is founded, [166]
present family, ancestor of, [173]
Ricci, Bartolomeo, [56]
Ricci, Cassandra de, her murder, [236]
Roman history, society, means of rising in, [349]
Rosaria, Princess, Camillo Pamfili's wife, [357]
Rosarias, Andreas, poor schoolmaster out of employ, [193]
Roscoe's defence of Lucrezia Borgia, [39]
Rudolph, the Emperor, his reply to the Italian Princes, [310]
S.
Salviati, Maria, sonnet to, [16]
Savoy, Duke of, his claim to pre–eminence over other Italian princes, [309]
Scandal in Europe, caused by Olympia Pamfili, [357]
Scenery, appreciation of, a modern sentiment, [142]
Schweinfurth, Olympia finds a home at, [151]
its condition in the sixteenth century, [154]
idea of Olympia's home in, [162]
siege of, [172]
pestilence in, [173]
destruction of the city, [176]
Serene, title of, squabbles about, [307]
Servants, Olympia's troubles with, [188]
Sinapi, Chilian, [56]
Sinapi, John, [56]
letter from, [88]
Olympia's letters to, [131]
settled at Würzburg, [149]
receives Olympia in his house, [ib.]
death of his wife, [166]
sends Olympia a volume recovered from the sack of Schweinfurth, [186]
his letter to Olympia, [187]
Sirani, Elisabetta, her artistic merits, [367]
story of her death, [368]
her home in Bologna, [369]
her catalogue of her works, [370]
her rapidity of execution, [371]
paints before Cosmo of Tuscany, [ib.]
before the Duchess of Brunswick, [372]
her disposal of her earnings, [373]
frugal life, [ib.]
falls into ill–health, [379]
her death, [380]
mourning in Bologna for her death, [380]
her personal appearance, [391]
Sirani, G. Andrea, Elisabetta's father, [369]
his conduct to Lucia Tolomelli, [377]
withdraws his accusation against Lucia, [387]
Sirani, Anna Maria, Elisabetta's sister, [369]
Sirani, Barbara, Elisabetta's sister, [369]
is ill with fever, [379]
Sirani, Margherita, Elisabetta's mother, [375]
Soderini, Giovanni Vettorio, his extraordinary letter, [336]
Strozzi, Filippo, his character, [11]
his connection with Tullia d'Aragona, [12]
Strozzi, Matteo, envoy to Venice, [295]
Squadrone volante, in the Conclave, [362]
T.
Tagliavia, Peter, at Trent, [5]
his reminiscences, [6]
educates his daughter, [8]
Tasso crowned at the Capitol, [394]
Terence, Adelphi of, performed before Paul III. at Ferrara, [95]
Theodore, daughter of John Sinapi, a pupil of Olympia, [161]
Theology, Olympia's, [193]
Theriaca medicine, [380]
Tiepolo, Antonio, envoy from Venice to Florence, [297]
Tiraboschi, his notion of comedy, [208]
Torelli, Lelio, his murder, [247]
Toselli, Mazzoni, his pamphlet on E. Sirani, [369]
Tragedy, Italian, in the sixteenth century, [207]
Treuthuger, the schoolmaster at Hirschhorn, [183]
Troilo, Orsini, [247]
Tullia d'Aragona, her birth, and early talents, [8]
difficulties of dates respecting her, [10]
her beauty, [14]
her husband, [15]
scene at her house, [17]
leaves Rome, [18]
specimen of her poetry, [19]
quits "La Bohème," [22]
her translation of Guerrino el Meschino, [ib.]
her opinion of Boccaccio, [24]
her propriety, [25]
her Dialogue on the Infinity of Love, [26]
her death, [28]
V.
Varchi, Bened., a personage in Tullia's "Dialogo,"[26]
Venetian senate, their conduct on hearing the Duke's marriage with Bianca Cappello, [295]
their reply to Bianca's remonstrances, [311]
Villach, Charles V. at, [170]
Villeggiatura, Italian habit of, [330]
THE END.
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Gaume, ver Rongeur.
[2] Roccho Pirro. Sicilia Sacra, ad. art. Tagliavia.
[3] Sarpi., lib. iv. sec. 37.
[4] Zilioli, Storia di poeti Ital., cited by Mazzuchelli, art. "Tullia."
[6] Vitæ Pontif. et Cardin.
[7] "L'ornamento degli abiti lascivi," is Zilioli's phrase.
[8] Mazzuchelli, vol. i. p. 928.
[9] Printed at p. 183 of the "Documenti Storici," appended by Signor Bigazzi to Niccolini's tragedy of "Filippo Strozzi." Firenze, 1847.
[10] Ibid., p. 185.
[11] Strozzi was then forty–three.
[13] MSS. Stroz., Clas. 7, Cod. No. 95, p. 75.
[14] Facetie, Motti, e Burle, Raccolte per M. L. Domenichi. Venetia, 1588.
[15] "Mezza Vecchia."
[16] Istor. di Volg. Poesia, vol. i. p. 341.
[17] Vol. i. p. 930.
[18] Fam. Med. Tavola, 14.
[19] Frizzi, Mem. per la Storia di Ferrara, vol. iv. p. 80.
[20] Frizzi, Mem. per la Storia di Ferrara, vol. iv. p. 80.
[21] Vide apud Frizzi, Mem. Stor. di Ferrara, vol. iv. p. 184.
[22] Ancient Diary, cited by Frizzi, vol. iv. p. 164.
[23] Frizzi, vol. iv. p. 217.
[24] Relazioni degli Ambasciatori Veneti, ser. xi. vol. iii. p. 11.
[26] Appendix, on Lucrezia Borgia; Life of Leo X.
[27] Antiq. of the House of Brunswick.
[28] Frizzi, vol. iv. p. 203.
[29] Diario Ferrarese. Anon. apud Muratori, tom. xxiv. p. 399.
[30] Frizzi, vol. iv. p. 207.
[31] Frizzi, vol. iv. p. 220.
[32] Vol. iv. p. 281.
[33] C. Secundi Curionis Epist., lib.
[34] Frizzi, vol. iv. p. 307.
[35] Frizzi, vol. iv. p. 307.
[36] Frizzi, vol. iv. p. 329.
[37] Frizzi, vol. iv. p. 307.
[38] Altogether wrongfully, it should seem.
[39] Opere di Bembo; Milano, 1810, vol. vii. p. 226.
[40] Letters of Calcagnini cited by Bonnet, in his Vie d'Olympia Morata, p. 27.
[41] Frizzi, vol. iv. p. 359.
[42] Tiraboschi, tom. vii. p. 1746.
[43] Frizzi, vol. iv. p. 359.
[44] Frizzi, vol. iv. p. 359.
[45] Tiraboschi, tom. vii. p. 2286.
[46] This brief account of the career of Curione has been taken from Bonnet's Vie d'Olympia, supplemented, where necessary, by Tiraboschi.
[47] Tiraboschi, tom. vii. p. 1747.
[49] Frizzi, vol. iv. p. 329.
[50] Frizzi, vol. iv. p. 329.
[51] Frizzi, ibid.
[52] For the original, see [Note 3.]
[53] Frizzi, vol. iv. p. 360.
[54] Ibid.
[55] Calc. Opera., cited by Bonnet.
[56] Celio Curione, Epist., cited by Bonnet.
[57] Cited by M. Bonnet.
[58] A citation from Juvenal, alluding to certain rhetorical jousting–bouts established by Caligula at Lyons.
[59] Curionis, Epist.
[60] Calcag. Opera.
[62] Bonnet, p. 37.
[64] Frizzi, vol. iv. p. 347.
[65] Frizzi, vol. i. p. 147.
[67] Frizzi, vol. iv. p. 342.
[68] The historian of Ferrara, Gaspar Sardi, dedicated to her, towards the end of the period spoken of, his book "De Triplici Philosophiâ."
[69] Sansovino, Hist. de Casa Orsini, cited by Bonnet.
[70] Olymp. Mor. C. S. Curioni, cited by Bonnet.
[71] For the original Greek, see [Note 7.]
[72] Olymp. Mor. Oper., cited by Bonnet.
[73] Frizzi, vol. iv. p. 348.
[74] Antiq. Esten., tom. ii. p. 371.
[75] C.S. Curionis Epist., lib. i. p. 11, cited by Bonnet.
[76] Vie d'Olympia, p. 69.
[77] Article Bolsec.
[78] Beza, in Vitâ Calvini.
[79] Bonnet, Vie, p. 69.
[80] Vie d'Olymp. ibid.
[81] Frizzi, vol. iv. p. 359.
[82] Histoire des Martyrs, cited by Bonnet, p. 74.
[83] Melchior Adam, Vita Germanorum Medicorum. Art. Grünthler.
[84] Bonnet, Vie d'Olymp. p. 202.
[85] Olymp. Moratæ Opera. Bâle, 1570.
[86] Bonnet, Vie d'Olymp. p. 79.
[88] C. S. Curione, Xysto Betulsio, 21st letter in the "Epistolæ," Opera Moratæ, Bâle, 1570.
[89] Mendoza. Letter to Charles of 10th June, 1848, cited by Ranke. Book 3, sec. 1.
[90] Olympia, Curioni, 23rd epist. Op. Ol. Morat. Bâle.
[91] Olympio Laurentia Schleenvio. 27th epistle in her collected works.
[92] Olym. G. Hermanno. 34th of the collection.
[93] Bonnet. Vie. p. 90.
[94] Beatus Rhenanus in a letter, which is the 50th of the century of Epist. Philolog. published by Goldast.
[95] Bayle, Art. Fugger. Note C.
[96] Bonnet, Vie d'Olymp. p. 93.
[97] The 19th of the collection, as printed at Bâle, in 1570. But neither the dates affixed to these letters, nor the order in which they are printed, are correct.
[98] Letter 17th of the collection.
[99] Olymp. Curioni et Georg. Hermanno. Letters 23rd and 34th of the collection.
[100] Bonnet, Vie d'Olymp., p. 101.
[101] Olymp. Carchisio. Letter 29th of the collection.
[102] Olymp. Carchisio. Letter 32nd.
[103] Letter 31st.
[104] Letter 24th of the collection.
[105] Absence from her husband and continued ill health.
[106] Art. Curion. Note B.
[108] Letters, 26, 27.
[109] Letter, No. 50.
[110] Olympia cuidam concionatori Germano. Letter 39.
[111] Letter, 28.
[112] Corresp. ined. de Calv. cited by Bonnet, p. 121.
[113] Bonnet. Vie d'Olymp. p. 103.
[114] Vie d'Olymp. p. 130.
[115] Letter 37.
[116] Vie d'Olymp. p. 133.
[117] Letter 37.
[118] Letter 58.
[119] Olympia a Madonna Cherubina. Letter 86. The only one of the collection written in Italian.
[120] Letter to Cherubina.
[121] Olympia's letter to her sister.
[122] Letter to Donna Cherubina, already quoted.
[123] Letter 40.
[124] "Quin et pallam egregiam donavit, plus quam mille sestertium nummorum æstimatam."—Letter to her sister.
[125] Letter. 74. of the collection of Olympia's letters.
[126] "Id quod doctorem etiam et Olympiam in summam admirationem adduxit."
[127] Annales de Vitâ et Rebus gestis Federici II., Electoris Palatini lib. xiv. Ann. 1554, quoted by Bonnet.
[128] Letter 50.
[129] Letter 50.
[130] Letter 56.
[131] Letter 46.
[132] Letter 68.
[133] Letter 69.
[134] All of them at Bâle, with the following dates, 1558, 1562, 1570, 1580. That of 1570 has been referred to in these pages.
[135] Mazzuchelli, tom. i. p. 711.
[136] Lib. III. cap. iii. sect. 61.
[137] Cited, Ibid.
[138] Tiraboschi, lib. III. cap. iii. sect. 61.
[139] Mazzuchelli, vita.
[140] Venezia e sue Lagune. Vol. ii. part 2. Ap. p. 6.
[141] Bianca Capello. Cenni storico–critici. Venezia, 1828.
[143] Cigogna, p. 26.
[144] Cigogna, ibid. p. 19.
[145] Siebenkees. Life of Bianca. Gotha, 1789.—Sismondi.
[146] Cigogna, p. 7.
[147] Litta. Famiglia Medici. Art.—Bianca.
[148] Litta. Fam. Med. Art.—Bianca.
[149] Litta, ibidem.
[150] Cigogna. Cenni storico–critici. p. 9.
[151] Cigogna. Ibid. p. 9.
[152] Litta. Ibidem.
[153] See Appendix. Letter I.
[154] Galluzzi. Istoria del Granducato. Lib. 4, cap. 2.
[155] Cigogna. Ibidem. p. 10.
[156] Galluzzi. Istoria del Granducato. Lib. 4.—Litta. Famiglia Medici.
[157] Litta. Ibidem.
[158] See Appendix. Letters I. and III.
[159] Galluzzi. Istoria del Ducato. Lib. 4.
[160] Galluzzi. Istoria del Ducato. Lib. 4, cap. 1.
[161] Litta. Fam. Med. Art. Ferdinando.—Galluzzi. Lib. 4.
[162] Cronaca MS. del Settimanni, cited by Guerazzi in his "Isabella Orsini," p. 177.
[163] Litta. Fam. Med. Art. Isabella Orsini.
[164] MSS. Caponi, cited by Galluzzi. Isa. Orsini, p. 178.
[165] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, cap. 2.—Litta. Fam. Med. Art. Isabella.—Ademollo. Mari. de' Ricci, Notes to, p. 810.
[167] These words actually do occur in a book of memoranda of the kind mentioned, which is still extant.
[168] Printed by Galuzzi. Lib. 4. ch. 2.
[169] Litta. Fam. Med. Art. Bianca.
[170] Ademollo. Mar. de Ricci. Notes, p. 628.
[171] Galluzzi. Ist. del Gr. ducato. Lib. 4, c. 2.
[172] Galluzzi. Ist. del Gr. ducato. Lib. 4. ch. 2.
[173] Galluzzi. Ibid. Lib. 4, ch. 3.
[174] Osservatore Fiorentino. Tom. 3, p. 106.
[175] Machiavelli. Op. Ed. Italia, 1813. V. iv. p. 194.
[176] Malespini. Novelli. Par. 2, nov. 24.
[177] Litta. Fam. Med. Art. Giovanni.—Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. iii.
[178] See Appendix. Letter VIII. and Note.
[179] Galluzzi. Ibidem.
[180] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 3.
[181] Galluzzi. Ibidem.
[182] Galluzzi. Ibidem.
[183] MS. Rinieri, cited by Cigogna, Cenni Critico–storia, p. 42.
[184] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 3.
[185] Cenni. Storico–critici, p. 27.
[186] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 3.
[187] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, cap. 4.
[188] Registri secreti del Senato, cited by Cigogna.—Cenni, Critico–storici, p. 28.
[189] Cenni, Storici, p. 44.
[190] Lib. 4, ch. 4.
[191] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 4.
[193] Cigogna. Cenni, Storico–critici, p. 30.
[194] See Cigogna. Cenni, Storico–critici, p. 31.
[196] Cigogna. Cenni, Storico–critici, p. 32.
[197] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 4.
[198] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 5.
[199] Adriani. Lib. 19.—Galluzzi. Lib. 3.
[200] Republiques. V. 16, p. 204.
[201] Galluzzi. Lib. 4.—Sismondi. Ch. 123.
[202] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 5.
[203] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 5.
[204] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 6.
[205] Lib. 4, ch. 6.
[206] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 5.
[207] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 6.
[208] Letter from Giovanni Vettorio Soderini to Signore Silvio Piccolomini; printed in the Notes to Guerrazzi's "Isabella Orsini," p. 179.
[209] "Familiarità con l'olio di vetriolo."
[210] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 6.
[211] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 7.
[212] Printed by Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 7.
[213] Printed by Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 7.
[214] Printed by Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 8.
[215] See, in confirmation of his view, Appendix, art. II.
[217] The sentence is thus incomplete in the original.
[218] "Scontorcimenti."
[220] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 8.
[221] "Non fece testamento prima, nè poi."
[222] "Rispettosamente;" which means literally "respectfully," and not "doubtfully." But "respectful" does not describe the manner of a sovereign to a captain of his guards. The author's meaning evidently is "with a manner the reverse of security and boldness."
[223] Galluzzi. Lib. 4, ch. 8.
[224] Hist. Rep. Ital., ch. 123.
[225] Letter of Soderini.—Guerrazzi's Isabella Orsini.
[226] Giusti. The stinging satires of this Tuscan poet, who died a few years since in the prime of life, should be read by those who wish to obtain a just notion of the lights and shades of modern Italian life.
[227] Guide Book to Central Italy.
[228] Storia Pittorica, vol. v. p. 97, edit. 4to.
[229] Lanzi should have written "recorded by herself;" for Malvasia, the historian of Bolognese art, merely prints a catalogue, left by the artist in her own handwriting.
[230] The list, however, is not complete, as there are pictures by her extant, which are not enumerated in it.
[231] This would seem to refer either to the medical brother or to the pupils in the house.
[232] She alludes in all probability to the murder of her husband; if so, the date of this letter would enable us to fix, with some approach to accuracy, the time of that event, which the Florentine contemporary writers have not mentioned, and which the subsequent historians have not been able to fix.
[233] This appears to allude to some scheme of marriage, which Bianca would seem to have in some degree encouraged.
[234] Signor Odorici thinks, in all probability correctly, that this matter, of too great importance to be written, was her hope of being married to the Duke after the death of the Duchess. He observes, that even the seal attached by Bianca to this letter seems to have reference to such an idea. It bore a Venus arming Cupid with arrows, with the motto significative enough certainly as a device of Bianca, "Aude et fiet." But if such a scheme of succeeding to the place of the Grand Duchess appeared to be of such importance as to deserve the coming of her cousin to Florence to discuss it, while the lady to be supplanted was still alive and well, do not such plannings and discussions add some degree of probability to the Florentine notion, that Giovanna's welcome death was unduly hastened?
[235] It must be observed, that from this letter it would appear either that the "matter which cannot be put on paper" was, after all, not what has been conjectured, or that her wishes and intentions of returning to Venice were insincere.
[236] An antidote to poison.
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