The Book of the Courtier

by conte Baldassarre Castiglione

LIST OF EDITIONS

THE LANGUAGE IS ITALIAN UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED

DATES AND NAMES ENCLOSED IN PARENTHESES ARE NOT FREE FROM DOUBT

1528	Venice	Aldine Press: fol.: April:	opd
1528	Florence	The heirs of Filippo di Giunta: 8vo: October:	opd
(1529)	Tusculano	Alessandro Paganino: 12mo:	stm
1529	Florence	The heirs of Filippo di Giunta: 8vo:	opd
1530	Parma	Antonio di Viotti: 8vo:	opd
1531	Florence	Benedetto Giunti: 8vo:	opd
1531	Parma	Antonio di Viotti: 8vo:	ves
1532	Parma	Antonio di Viotti: 8vo:	stm
1533	Venice	Aldine Press: 8vo: with a few poems by Castiglione:	exd
1534	Barcelona	Pedro Monpezat: fol.: Spanish version by Juan Boscan Almogaver:	fab
1537	Florence	Benedetto Giunti: 8vo:	brm
1537	Paris	For Jean Longis and Vincent Sertenas: 8vo: French version by Jacques Colin:	exd
(1537)	Lyons	Denys de Harsy: 8vo: Colin’s French version:	opd
1538	Venice	Vettor de’ Rabani and associates: 8vo:	stm
1538	Venice	Giovanni Padovano for Federico Torresano d’Asola: 8vo:	exd
1538	Venice	Curzio Navò and brothers: 8vo:	cor
1538	Lyons	Françoys Juste: 8vo: Colin’s French version revised by Estienne Dolet:	exd
1539	Venice	Curzio Navò for Alvise Tortis: 8vo:	stm
1539	s. l.	Printer not mentioned: 8vo: abbreviation by Scipio Claudio:	maz
1539	Toledo	Printer not mentioned: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version:	fab
1540	Salamanca	Pedro Touans for Guillermo de Milles: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version:	ace
1540	Paris	Printer not mentioned: 8vo: (Colin’s) French version:	ala
1541	Venice	Aldine Press: 8vo:	opd
1541	Venice	Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 12mo:	stm
(1541)	s. l.	“T-A”: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version:	fab
1542	Medina	Printer not mentioned: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version:	brm
(1542)	s. l.	Printer not mentioned: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version:	bnm
1543	Venice	Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo:	pas
1544	Venice	Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo:	opd
1544	Venice	Alvise de Tortis: 8vo:	chi
1544	Antwerp	Martin Nucio: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version:	fab
1544	s. l.	Printer not mentioned: 8vo:	maz
1545	Venice	Aldine Press: fol.:	opd
1545	Paris	Printer not mentioned: 12mo: (Colin’s) French version:	brm
1546	Venice	Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo:	exd
1546	Paris	For Arnoul l’Angelier: 12mo: Colin’s French version:	opd
1547	Venice	Aldine Press: 8vo:	opd
1547	Venice	Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo:	maz
1549	Venice	Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 12mo:	chi
1549	Venice	Alvise de Tortis: 8vo:	vel
1549	Paris	Gelles Corrozet: ——: (Colin’s) French version:	bnt
1549	Paris	Jean Lor——: 16mo: (Colin’s) French version:	vel
1549	s. l.	Printer not mentioned: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version:	ves
1550	Lyons	Gulielmo Rovillio: 16mo:	opd
1551	Venice	Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari and brothers: 12mo:	stm
1552	Venice	Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari and brothers: 8vo: text revised by Ludovico Dolce:	exd
1552	Venice	Domenico Giglio: 12mo:	opd
1553	Lyons	Gulielmo Rovillio: 12mo:	brm
1553	Saragossa	For Miguel de Çapila: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version:	fab
1554	Florence	The heirs of Bernardo Giunti: 16mo:	stm
1556	Venice	Girolamo Scoto: 8vo: Dolce’s text:	cav
1556	Venice	Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo: Dolce’s text:	stm
1559	Venice	Simbeni for Bernardin Fagiani: 8vo: with Paolo Giovio’s Life of Castiglione:	cav
1559	Venice	Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo: Dolce’s text:	brm
1559	Toledo	Printer not mentioned: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version:	maz
1560	Venice	Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo: Dolce’s text:	brm
1561	London	William Seres: 4to: English version by Thomas Hoby:	brm
1561	Antwerp	The widow of Martin Nutio: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version:	ala
1561	Wittenberg	Johannes Crato: 4to: Latin version by Hieronymus Turler:	jen
1562	Venice	Francesco Rampazzetto: 12mo:	cav
1562	Venice	Printer not mentioned: 8vo: with Giovio’s Life:	opd
1562	Lyons	Gulielmo Rovillio: 12mo: Dolce’s text:	opd
1562	Venice	Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 12mo:	ang
1563	Venice	Same edition as the last, with change of date on title-page:	maz
1564	Venice	Same edition as the last, with change of date on title-page:	stm
1564	s. l.	Printer not mentioned: 8vo: edition erroneously dated “MDXLIV”:	ves
1565	Venice	Gerolamo Cavalcalovo: 12mo: Dolce’s text:	stm
1566	Munich	Adam Berg: 8vo: German version by Lorenz Kratzer:	vat
1568	Venice	Domenico: 12mo:	brm
1569	Venice	Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 12mo:	vel
1569	Wittenberg	(Johannes Crato): 8vo: Turler’s Latin version:	maz
1569	Valladolid	Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version expurgated:	brm
1571	London	John Day: 8vo: Latin version by Bartholomew Clerke:	brm
1573	Venice	Comin da Trino: 8vo: with Giovio’s Life:	opd
1574	Venice	Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo:	maz
1574	Venice	Comin da Trino: 8vo:	maz
1574	Venice	Domenico Farri: 12mo: Dolce’s text:	exd
1574	Antwerp	Philippo Nucio: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version:	exd
1577	Antwerp	Philippo Nucio: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version:	bts
1577	Strasbourg	Bernhardus Jobinus: 8vo: Latin version of Book I by Johannes Ritius:	ves
1577	London	Henry Bynneman: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version:	exd
1577	London	Henry Denham: 4to: Hoby’s English version:	brm
(1577)	Paris	Pierre Gaultier: 16mo: Colin’s French version:	opd
1580	Lyons	Thibauld Ancelin for Loys Cloquemin: 8vo: French version by Gabriel Chapuis with text:	stm
1581	Salamanca	Pedro Lasso: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version:	ols
1584	Venice	Bernardo Basa: 8vo: text expurgated by Ciccarelli, with Life by Marliani:	stm
1584	Frankfort	Bernhardus Jobinus: 8vo: Latin version by Johannes Ritius:	ala
1585	London	Thomas Dauson: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version:	brm
1585	Lyons	Claude Bourcidan for Jean Huguetan: 8vo: Chapuis’ French version with text:	vel
1585	Paris	Nicholas Bonfons: 8vo: Chapuis’ French version with text:	exd
1585	Paris	Georges l’Oyselet for Cl. Micard: 8vo: Chapuis’ French version:	exd
1587	Venice	Curzio Navò and brothers: 8vo:	d’a
1587	Venice	Domenico Giglio: 12mo:	exd
1588	London	John Wolfe: 8vo: Hoby’s English version revised, with text and Chapuis’ French version:	opd
1592	Paris	Nicholas Bonfons for Abel l’Angelier: 8vo: Chapuis’ French version with text:	exd
1593	Venice	La Miniana Compagnia: 8vo: Ciccarelli’s expurgation:	stm
1593	London	George Bishop: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version:	exd
1593	Dilingen	Johann Mayer: 8vo: German version by Johann Engelbert Noyse:	ang
1599	Venice	Paulo Ugolini: 16mo: Ciccarelli’s expurgation, with Marliani’s Life:	ang
1599	Antwerp	Philippo Nucio: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version expurgated:	maz
s. d.	s. l.	Printer not mentioned: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version:	bnm
1600	Florence	(The heirs of Filippo di Giunta): 4to:	d’a
1601	Venice	Giovanni Alberti: ——:	jol
1603	London	T. Creede: 4to: Hoby’s English version:	brm
1603	London	George Bishop: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version:	brm
1606	Venice	Giovanni Alberti: 8vo:	ves
1606	Frankfort	Lazarus Zetzner: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version:	amb
1612	London	Thomas Adams: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version:	brm
1619	Strasbourg	Bernhardus Jobinus: 8vo: Ritius’s Latin version:	cas
1619	Strasbourg	The heirs of Lazarus Zetzner: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version:	brm
1663	Strasbourg	For Simon Paullus: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version:	exd
1667	Strasbourg	Bernhardus Jobinus: 8vo: Ritius’s Latin version:	maz
1668	Zürich	Printer not mentioned: 8vo: Ritius’s Latin version:	maz
1684	Frankfort	For Carl Schaeffer: ——: German version by “J. C. L. L. J.”:	rei
1690	Paris	Estienne Massot for Estienne Loyson: 12mo: French version by (L’Abbé Duhamel):	exd
1713	Cambridge	William Innys: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version revised by S. Drake:	exd
1724	London	A. Battesworth and others: 8vo: English version by Robert Samber:	nyp
1727	London	W. Bowyer: 4to: English version by A. P. Castiglione, with Life and text:	opd
1729	London	E. Curll: 8vo: Samber’s English version:	brm
1733	Padua	Giuseppe Comino: 4to: Volpi edition, with other works by Castiglione and Marliani’s Life:	opd
1737	London	Olive Payne: identical with edition of 1727, title-page changed:	opd
1742	London	H. Slater and others: identical with edition of 1727, title-page changed:	opd
1766	Padua	Giuseppe Comino: 4to: Volpi edition, with Life by Pierantonio Serassi:	opd
1771	Vicenza	Giambattista Vendramini Mosca: 8vo: 2 volumes, with Serassi’s Life:	opd
(1772)	s. l.	Printer not mentioned: 8vo: 2 volumes:	d’a
1799	Bassano	Remondini: 8vo: 3 volumes, including other works by Castiglione:	d’a
1803	Milan	La Tipografia dei Classici Italiani: 8vo:	bnp
1822	Milan	Giovanni Silvestri: 8vo: with Serassi’s Life:	brm
1828	Bergamo	Mazzoleni: 12mo: 2 volumes:	bra
1831	Milan	Niccolò Bettoni and the brothers Ubicini: 4to:	amb
1842	Venice	Girolamo Tasso: 8vo: 2 volumes, expurgated, with Serassi’s Life:	opd
1844	Parma	Fiaccadori: 16mo: expurgated edition:	amb
1848	Copenhagen	Schultz: 4to: early French version of Book III, edited by N. C. L. Abrahams:	exd
1854	Florence	Felice Lemonnier: 8vo: annotated by Count Carlo Baudi di Vesme:	opd
1873	Madrid	Rivadeneyra for Alfonso Durán: 8vo: Boscan’s version annotated by A. M. Fabié:	opd
1884	Turin	Libreria Salesiana: 16mo:	vel
1884	Florence	P. Metastasio for G. C. Sansoni: 16mo: with preface by Giulio Salvadori:	opd
1889	Florence	Gaspare Barbèra: 8vo: expurgated and annotated by Giuseppe Rigutini:	opd
1890	Milan	Edoardo Sonzogno: 8vo: with preface by Lodovico Corio:	opd
1892	Florence	Same edition as that of 1889, with changed date on title-page:	opd
1894	Florence	Carnesecchi for G. C. Sansoni: 8vo: annotated by Vittorio Cian:	opd
1900	London	Constable for David Nutt: 8vo: Hoby’s English version edited by Walter Raleigh:	opd

ADDENDUM

1900

London

Edward Arnold (Essex House Press): 8vo: Hoby’s English version edited by Janet E. Ashbee, with woodcut ornaments by C. R. Ashbee:

opd

INDEX

INDEX

• Ability to perform his highest functions, necessary to the courtier, even if he be not called on, [283]
• Abrahams, N. C. L., [421]
• Absurd similes, [129]
• Accolti, Benedetto, [333]
  • Bernardo,—see [Unico Aretino]
  • Pietro, 333
• Accomplishments, etc., of the courtier; how to be employed, [81] et seq.;
  • the proper aim of, [246] et seq.
• Achaia, [171], [387]
• Achilles, [61], [62], [64], [284], [348], [349], [414]
• Acquapendente, [158], [382]
• Adams, Thomas, [421]
• Adrian VI, [317], [413]
• Adriatic, the, [8]
• Adulation of princes, [248]
• Ady, Mrs. Henry, [338], [399]
• Æneas, [339], [393]
• Æneid, a quotation from the, [365]
• Æschines, [51], [54], [344]
• Æsop, [78], [356], [357]
• Affectation:
  • to be avoided, [35], [83];
  • instances of:
    • in oratory, [35];
    • in dancing, [36];
    • in attire, [36];
    • in riding, [37];
    • in boasting, [37];
    • in music, [37];
    • in painting, [37];
    • in speech, [38];
    • in preferring to practise that in which one does not most excel, [117]
• “Aforesaid,” story about a Sienese who mistook Aforesaid for a name, [130]
• Age, the courtier’s functions affected by his, [281], [283-4]
• Agesilaus, [250], [408]
• Agilulph, Duke of Turin, [393]
• Agnello, Antonio, [126], [361-2]
  • Giulio, [362]
• Agone, the Piazza d’, [249], [407]
• Aguilar, the Marquess of, [384]
• Alamanni, [149-5]0
• Albert III, Duke of Bavaria, [374]
• Alberti, Giovanni, [421]
• Albizzi, [370]
• Albret, Charlotte d’, [377]
• Alcibiades, [57], [89], [356], [402]
• Aldana, Captain, [152], [379]
• Aldine Press, [315], [419]
• Aldus (Teobaldo Manucci), [315], [329], [332], [394], [405]
• Alessandrina Library at Rome, [417]
• Alexander the Great, [28], [34], [57], [58], [61], [62], [63], [68], [70], [103], [109], [142], [146], [205], [207], [210], [212], [274], [275], [284], [285], [338], [348], [351], [358], [401], [411], [414]
• Alexander III, [364]
• Alexander VI (Roderigo Lenzuoli Borgia), [10], [126], [147], [216], [318], [328], [336], [340], [361], [365], [367], [369], [371], [372], [375], [377], [380], [382], [395], [397], [400]
• Alexander Jannæus, King of the Jews, [191], [389]
• Alexandra, Queen of the Jews, [191], [389]
• Alexandria in Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great, [274], [411]
• Alexandria, the Bishop of, (Giannantonio di Sangiorgio), [142], [372]
• Alexandrian Cardinal, the, (Giovanni Antonio di Sangiorgio), [142], [372]
• Alfonso I of Naples, [146], [153], [156], [375-6]
• Alfonso II of Naples, [10], [327], [363], [383], [397], [398], [400]
• Alfonso the Magnanimous,—see [Alfonso I of Naples]
• Alidosi, Francesco,—see [a]Pavia], the Cardinal of Almada, Brazaida de,—see [Castagneta], the Countess of Juan Baez de, [384]
• Almogaver,—see [Boscan]
• Altamura, the Prince of, [399]
• Altoviti, [149-5]0
• Alva, the Duke of, [315]
• “Amadis of Gaul,” [405]
• Amalasontha, Queen of the Goths, [202], [393]
• Ambrogini, Angelo,—see [Poliziano]
  • Benedetto, [345]
• Ambros, [359]
• Ambrosiana Library at Milan, [417]
• Amiable manners necessary to the courtier, [91]
• Ancelin, Thibauld, [420]
• Ancona, absurd duelling of two cousins of, [30]
• Angelica Library at Rome, [417]
• Angelier, Abel l’, [421]
  • Arnoul l’, [419]
• Angoulême, Count Charles d’, [346]
  • Monseigneur d’,—see [Francis I] of France
• Anichino, a character in Boccaccio, [164]
• Anne of Brittany, Queen of France, [202], [371], [395], [396]
• Anne of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans, [371]
• Antæus, [275], [411]
• Antigonus, King of Macedon, [351]
• Antiphanes, [364]
• Antonello da Forli, [147], [376]
• Antonio di Tommaso, [375]
• Antonius, Marcus, (the orator), [44], [51], [339]
• Apelles, [37], [68], [70], [338], [351], [402]
• Apennines, [8], [43]
• Aphrodite, [387], [388]
• Apollo, [356]
• Apollo Belvedere, [349], [410]
• Aptitude for fun, requisite in a man who would be amusing, [154]
• Apulia, use of music in, as a cure for bite of tarantula, [15]
• Aquila, Serafino dall’,—see [Serafino dall’Aquila]
• Aquino, the Bishop of,—see [Mario de’ Maffei]
• Aragon, Alfonso II of Naples,—see [Alfonso II] of Naples
  • Alfonso V of,—see Alfonso I of Naples
  • Beatrice, Queen of Hungary, [204], [336], [397], [399], [400]
  • Catherine, wife of Henry VIII of England, [412]
  • Eleanora, Duchess of Ferrara, [204-5], [336], [363], [397], [398], [399]
  • Federico III of Naples,—see [Federico III] of Naples
  • Ferdinand of,—see Ferdinand the Catholic
  • Ferdinand I of Naples,—see [Ferdinand I] of Naples
  • Ferdinand II of Naples,—see [Ferdinand II] of Naples
  • Ferdinand the Just, [375]
  • Ferdinand, Duke of Calabria, [400]
  • Isabella, Duchess of Milan, [204], [327], [381], [398], [400]
  • Joanna, wife-aunt of Ferdinand II of Naples, [327], [397]
  • Juan II, King of Navarre and, [397]
  • Juana, wife of Philip of Austria, [413]
  • Ludovico, Cardinal, [159], [341], [383]
• Archaisms of speech discussed, [39-5]4
• Archiuzow, an alleged Russian translator of THE COURTIER, [324]
• Arco, MS. bibliographical notes by the late Count d’, [417]
• Ares, [411]
• Aretino, Pietro, [333]
  • Unico, (Bernardo Accolti),—see [Unico Aretino]
• Argentina, madonna, [196]
• Arguzie, [121], [143]
• Arion, [349]
• Ariosto, Alfonso, [2], [7], [75], [171], [243], [320]
  • Ludovico, [320], [336], [345]
• Aristippus of Cyrene, [59], [348]
• Aristobulus I, King of the Jews, [389]
• Aristodemus, [264], [409]
• Aristogeiton, [390]
• Aristotle, [34], [57], [63], [284-5], [286], [323], [370], [374], [388], [391], [409], [414]
• Arms, the courtier’s true profession, [25]
• Arms vs. letters, [60-2]
• Arnold, Fr., [337]
• Arrogance of princes, [248-9]
• Art, enjoyment of beauty in nature increased by a knowledge of, [69]
• Artemisia, [205], [400-1]
• Arthur Tudor, son of Henry VII of England, [412]
• Artifice, discussion on, [118]
• Artifice in love, deprecated, [165-6]
• Ascension, Venetian festival of the, [131], [364]
• Ascham, Roger, [316]
• Asia, [101], [275]
• Asinus Domino Blandiens, one of Æsop’s fables, [357]
• Asnapper (Sardanapalus), [206], [401]
• Aspasia, [197], [390-1]
• Assurbanipal (Sardanapalus), [206], [401]
• Atanagi’s Rime Scelte, [331]
• Athena, [387]
• Athenian dialect:
  • spoken with excessive care by Theophrastus, [5];
  • not rigidly adhered to by excellent Greek authors, [47]
• Athens, [101], [197]
  • feminine constancy commemorated by a statue at, [192]
• Athos, Mount, [274], [411]
• Atri, Giacomo d’, (Count Pianella),—see [Pianella]
• Attendolo, Muzio, called Sforza, [381]
• Attire appropriate to the courtier, [102-4]
• Augustus, [190], [388], [401]
• Aurelian, the Emperor, [401]
• Austria, Margarita of, [202], [395-6]
  • Maximilian of,—see [Maximilian I]
  • Philip of, [413]
• Autharis, King of the Lombards, [393]
• Ayola, Maria de, [317]

• Bacon, Francis, afterwards Lord Verulam, [316]
• Bactria, [285], [414]
• Bad government, the evils of, [249]
• Bad master, the courtier to leave the service of a, [99], [285]
• Baja, [274], [410]
• Bajazet II of Turkey, [141], [173], [372], [388]
• Balance and contrast, in art and character, [83]
• Baldi, Bernardino, [327]
• Baldness, jests about Bernardo Bibbiena’s, [122], [155]
• 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, [159-6]0, [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], [259-6]0, [287], [288-3]07, [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], [123-6]5, [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 [a]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]