Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 3 (of 3) / Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630 - James Dennistoun

1608.		His betrothal to Princess Claudia de' Medici	[196]
1610.		His dissolute habits	[197]
1616.		He visits Florence	[198]
1617.		Court pastimes at Urbino	[199]
1621.	April 29.	The Prince's marriage concluded	[199]
”		Reception of the bridal pair	[201]
”		Francesco Maria resigns the administration of his state to the Prince	[202]
”		And retires to Urbania	[203]
1622.		The Prince's reckless career, and debauched life	[204]
1623.	June 29.	His sudden death	[207]
”	”	The Duke's resignation	[208]
”		Ominous warnings	[209]
”		Monumental inscription to the Prince	[210]
1622.	July 27.	Birth of his daughter Vittoria	[210]
1623.		Princess Claudia returns to her family	[211]
”		The Duke rouses himself	[212]
”		The difficulties of his position	[213]
”	Aug. 8.	Election of Pope Urban VIII.	[214]
1624.		The Duke's negotiations with the Holy See	[214]
”		Intrigues and threats employed against him	[216]
”		He arranges the Devolution of his state to the Holy See	[219]
”		To which the people gave no consent	[220]
1628.		The terms of surrender ill kept	[222]

”		The Duke's monkish seclusion at Urbania	[224]
1631.	April 28.	His death there	[225]
”		His funeral	[226]
”		Notices of his character by Donato, Gozze, and Passeri	[227]
”		His appearance and portrait	[230]
”		Letters of his domestic circle	[232]
”		Notices of Princess Vittoria	[239]
”		And of Duchess Livia	[239]
”		The Duke's will, and the amount of his succession	[239]
”		His libraries	[241]
1658.		The MSS. carried to the Vatican	[242]
”		The printed books transported to the Sapienza at Rome	[244]
”		Probable number of MSS.	[244]
1631.		The duchy incorporated with the Ecclesiastical States	[245]
		To the great misfortune of the people	[246]
		Conclusion	[248]

1400.	The glory and progress of Italy while divided into many states	[253]
1492-1530.	Her long struggle against foreign aggression is closed in servitude	[253]
1533-1600.	Spanish domination fatal to manners, language, and literature	[254]
” ”	This evil augmented by the Academies	[255]
” ”	The Assorditi of Urbino	[255]
” ”	The influence of the Reformation, how excluded from Italian letters	[257]
” ”	The age of rhetoricians and fulsome compliment	[257]
” ”	Mathematics and engineering studied at Urbino	[259]
1509-1575.	Federigo Comandino of Urbino	[260]
1544.	Guidobaldo Marchese del Monte	[262]
1529-1591.	Francesco Paciotti of Urbino	[262]
-1560.	Gian Giacomo Leonardi of Pesaro	[264]
1569-1639.	Muzio Oddi of Urbino	[265]
1553-1612.	Bernardino Baldi of Urbino, his vast acquirements and numerous works	[266]
	His Lives of Dukes of Urbino	[273]
1496-1576.	Girolamo Muzio of Capo d'Istria, biographer of the Dukes	[274]
1555-1602.	Federigo Bonaventura of Urbino	[277]

		Facilities of Italian versification	[278]
		Absence of traditionary ballads	[279]
1508-1600.		Poetry flourishes at Urbino	[280]
1474-1533.		Ludovico Ariosto	[280]
1515.		He visits Urbino; his room in the palace there	[281]
” ”		The qualities of his poetry	[286]
1492-1557.		Pietro Aretino, "scourge of princes"	[287]
		Mediocrity of his poetry, and baseness of his character	[288]
1490-1547.		Vittoria Colonna, Marchioness of Pescara	[291]
” ”		Her devotional character and poetry	[292]
1522.		Laura Battiferri of Urbino	[294]
		Other bards of that court	[294]
		Dionigi Atanagi; specimens of his verses	[295]
		Antonio Galli and Marco Montani of Urbino	[297]
1493-1569.		Bernardo Tasso	[298]
		His early irregularities and services	[298]
1531.		Enters that of the Prince of Salerno	[299]
1539.		His marriage and happy residence at Sorrento	[299]
1544.	March.	Birth of his son Torquato	[300]
1552.		Becomes a wanderer on his patron's disgrace	[300]
1556.		Death of his wife	[301]
1556.		His appeal to the Prince	[301]
”		Reaches Pesaro, where he resides for two years	[302]
1557.		Reads his Amadigi at that court	[303]
1559.	Sept. 28.	Torquato intimates his death to the Duke of Urbino	[305]
		His poetry and correspondence	[305]
		His invention of the Ode	[306]

		Torquato Tasso, a subject of mystery and contradiction	[308]
		Count Alberti's recent impositions	[311]
		Dr. Andrea Verga's theory of his insanity	[312]
		Is sufficient justification of the Duke of Ferrara	[313]
1556.		Torquato's arrival at Pesaro	[313]
		His early devotion to the muses	[314]
1565.		His first visit to Ferrara	[314]
		His compliments to the family of Urbino in the Rinaldo	[315]
		His devotion to Princess Lucrezia d'Este, afterwards Duchess of Urbino	[316]
1571.		His sonnet to her, and canzone on her marriage	[318]
1573.		His Aminta performed at Pesaro	[318]
1574.		His dangerous intercourse with her at Urbania	[319]
”		She is separated from the Duke and returns to Ferrara	[320]
1575.		Tasso at Florence,—his portrait	[321]
1576.		Symptoms of mental disease	[321]
1577.		Outbreak of insanity	[321]
1578.		He seeks shelter at Pesaro from imaginary wrongs	[321]
”		His canzone to the Duke	[321]
		His long letter to him	[323]
1579.		He is shut up in the hospital of Sta. Anna at Ferrara for seven years	[326]
1587-1594.		His subsequent wanderings	[326]
		Are closed at Rome	[327]
1595.	April 25.	His farewell letter and death at S. Onofrio	[327]
		Retrospect of his life	[328]
		His rivalry with Ariosto	[329]
		His the latest of Italy's great names	[330]
1537-1611.		Battista Guarini of Ferrara	[331]
1602-1604.		Invited to Urbino	[332]