G.
Gærtner, II. [15].
Gassendi, II. [15].
Galileo, the history of his life and
labours, pregnant with a peculiar
interest to the general reader, as
well as the philosopher, II. [1].
His birth and parentage, [2].
His
early years spent in the construction
of instruments and pieces of
machinery, which were calculated
chiefly to amuse himself and his
schoolfellows, [2].
Music, drawing,
and painting, the occupations
of his leisure hours, [3].
Papers
from the elementary works of
geometry to the writings of Archimedes,
[3].
Writes an essay on
the hydrostatical balance, [3].
Engaged
to investigate the centre
of gravity in solid bodies, [4].
Appointed lecturer on mathematics
at Pisa, [4].
His reiterated
and successful attacks against the
followers and doctrines of Aristotle,
[5].
Resigns his professorship
at Pisa, and is appointed to
fill the chair of mathematics in
the university of Padua, [6].
Obliged to add to his income by
the labours of his pen, [6].
His
own account of his conversion to
the Copernican system of philosophy,
[7].
Teaches the Ptolemaic
out of compliance with the popular
feeling, after he had convinced
himself of the truth of
the Copernican doctrines, [8].
His
reputation widely extended over
Europe, [9].
Completes the first
period of his engagement at
Padua, and is re-elected for other
six years with an increased
salary of 320 florins, [9].
His observations
on the new star, which
attracted the notice of astronomers
in 1604, [10].
Again appointed
to the professorship at
Padua, with an augmented stipend
of 520 florins, [10].
His attention
occupied with the examination
of the properties of the
loadstone, [10].
In 1607, he first
directs his telescope to the heavens,
[11].
Solicited by Cosmo de'
Medici to return to Padua, [12].
The professorship conferred on
him for life, and his salary raised
to 1000 florins, [13].
Invents that
form of telescope which still
bears his name, [14].
Interest
which the exhibition of the
telescope excited at Venice, [15].
The first celestial object to which
he applied it, was the moon, [15].
His observations on the moon,
[16].
His examination of the fixed
stars and the planets, [17].
His
discovery of the Medicean stars,
[18].
Dedicated his work, entitled
the "Sidereal Messenger," to
Cosmo de' Medici, [19].
Reception
which his discoveries met
with, [20].
Resigns his professorship
at Padua, and takes up his
residence at Florence as philosopher
and principal mathematician
to the grand duke of Tuscany, [21].
The first and sole discoverer of
Jupiter and satellites, [22].
Excites
the curiosity of astronomers by
the publication of his first
enigma, [23].
Visits Rome, where
he is received with honour by
princes, cardinals, and prelates,
[24].
Erects his telescope in the
Quirinal Gardens, [24].
His solar
observations, [26].
Publishes his
discourse on floating bodies,
chiefly remarkable as a specimen
of the sagacity and intellectual
power of its author, [28].
His
discoveries place him at the
head of the great men of his age,
[29].
His letter to his friend and
pupil, the abbé Castelli, to prove
that the Scriptures were not
intended to teach us science
and philosophy, [31].
Publishes a
longer letter, of seventy pages, defending
and illustrating his former
views respecting the influence
of scriptural language on
the two contending systems, [32].
Summoned before the inquisition,
to answer for the heretical
doctrines which he published, [33].
Acquitted on condition that he
renounced the obnoxious doctrines,
and pledged himself that
he would neither teach, defend,
nor publish them in future, [33].
His controversial discussion at
Rome, [34].
Discovers a method
of finding the longitude at sea,
[35].
Unable, from illness, to partake
in the general interest excited
by the three comets, which
visited our system in 1618, [36].
Replies to the attack of Oratio
Grassi, in a volume entitled "Il
Saggiatore," [37].
Undertakes a
journey to Rome, to congratulate
his friend Barberini upon his
elevation to the papal chair, [38].
Endeavours to bespeak the good
will of the cardinal towards the
Copernican system, [39].
His
theory of the tides, [40].
Ties
which bound him to the Romish
hierarchy, [41].
Publishes a work,
demonstrating the Copernican
system, [42].
Influence of this
work on the public mind, [43].
Summoned a second time before
the inquisition, [45].
His trial, 46.
His defence, [47].
Sentence of the
court, [49].
His abjuration of his
doctrines, [50].
The sentence of
abjuration read at several universities,
and his friends and his
disciples summoned to witness
the public degradation of their
master, [52].
Returns to Tuscany,
[58].
His melancholy and indisposition,
[53].
Obtains leave from
the pope to return to Florence,
[54].
Publishes his "Dialogues on
Local Motion," [55].
Discovers
the moon's diurnal liberation, [55].
Becomes totally blind, [56].
Renieri
undertakes to arrange and
complete his observations and
calculations, [57].
His death, 58.
The inquisition disputes his
right of making a will, and of
being buried in consecrated
ground, [58].
His character as a
man of science, and as a member
of the social circle, [60].
His
person, [61].
Gamba, Marina, II. [10].
Gano, of Mayence, I. [170].
Garci Sanchez, remarks on his
poetry, III. [13].
Garibay, Esteban de, III. [162].
Gavasa, Alberto, III. [231].
Geraldi, Cinthio, I. [28].
Giacomo, king of Majorca, I. [147].
Gil, Juan, III. [140].
Gilbert, Dr., II. [11].
Giovanni, queen of Naples, I. [91].
Goldoni, Carlo, his birth and parentage,
II. [213].
His predilection
for the drama, [214].
Placed at
school at Perugia, [215].
Taken
by his father to Rimini, to pursue
his studies under a celebrated
professor, [216].
Leaves Rimini
with a company of strolling
comedians, [217].
Arrives at
Chiozza; his dislike to the medical
profession, [218].
Repairs to
Venice to study law under his
uncle, [219].
Enters the university
of Pavia, [220].
Expelled the
college for writing a satire; accompanies
his father to Udine,
where he studies law under an
eminent advocate, [221].
Proceeds
to Modena to pursue his
legal studies, [222].
His letter to
his parents, declaring his resolve
of entering the order of Capuchin
monks, [223].
Returns to Chiozza,
cured of every wish to shut himself
up in a cloister, [223].
Appointed
to a situation under government,
[224].
His account of
his first love, [224].
Enters the profession
of barrister at Venice,
[225].
Incident which occurred to
destroy his prospects, [226].
Leaves
Venice; obtains letters of introduction
at Milan, [227].
Failure
of his opera, entitled "Amalasunta,"
[228].
Appointed gentleman
in the palace of signor
Bartolini, [229].
Dismissed from
his situation; sets out for Modena,
where his mother resided,
[230].
Attacked by robbers on his
journey, [231].
Installed poet to
the theatrical company at Venice;
success of his "Belisarius," [232].
Accompanies the manager to
Genoa and Florence, [233].
His
marriage, [233].
Commences his
long meditated reform of the
Italian theatre, [234].
Obtains the
Genoese consulship at Venice,
[235].
Embarks for Bologna; his
journey full of accidents by flood
and field, [236].
Returns to Rimini,
[237].
Becomes a pleader
once again, and for three years
practices at the Pisan bar, [238].
Outline of his tragedy, entitled
"La Donna di Garbo," [239].
His
drama on the subject of Richardson's
novel of "Pamela," [240].
Writes sixteen comedies in the
course of one season, [241].
His
illness occasioned by his extraordinary
exertion, [242].
Becomes
the censor of the manners and
satirist of the follies of his country,
[242].
Outline of his comedies,
[243].
Invited to Rome during
the carnival, [244].
Receives an
offer from the French court of an
engagement for two years, on
very advantageous terms, [245].
His debût as an author in the
French capital, [246].
His death,
in the eighty-fifth year of his
age, [246].
Gongora, don Luis de, III. [243]. His
birth, parentage, and early education,
[243]. His death, in the
sixty-sixth year of his age, [244].
His person, [245]. Specimen of
his style, [246]. Lope de Vega,
essay upon him and his system,
[248].
Gonzaga, cardinal, I. [35].
Gori, Francesco, II. [278].
Grassi, Oratio, II. [37].
Gravina, Vincenzo, the celebrated
jurisconsult, II. [185].
Grazia, M. Vincenzo di, II. [28].
Gualdo, Paolo, II. [14].
Guarini, Battista, his birth, parentage,
and early education, II. [82]
Named counsellor and secretary
of state by Alfonso, duke of
Ferrara, [83].
Sent by him to negotiate
his election to the Polish
throne; his letter to his wife on
the subject, [83].
His letter to a
friend on the subject of his "Pastor
Fido," [87].
Extract from Fanshawe's
translation of the poem,
the "Pastor Fido," the principal
monument of his poetic genius,
[88].
Review of the poem looked
on as second only to Tasso among
the poets of the age, [91].
Returns
to his post at court; sent on a
mission to Umbria and Milan, [92].
His pecuniary difficulties and
domestic afflictions; leaves Ferrara
privately and in haste, [93].
Establishes himself at Florence,
where he is honourably received
by the grand duke Ferdinand, [94].
His irascible temper, [94].
His
death, in the seventy-fifth year
of his age, [95].
Gubbio, Busone da, I. [27].
Guevara, Antonio de, III. [147].
Guicciardini, Francesco, his birth
and parentage, II. [63].
At an
early age takes a doctor's degree
in law; and is appointed by the
government to read the Institute
in the university of Florence, [61].
His marriage, [64].
Sent by the
republic as ambassador to Ferdinand,
king of Aragon, [65].
Sent to receive the pope at Cortona,
[65].
Named by the pope
consistorial advocate, also governor
of Reggio and Modena,
[66].
Prudence, firmness, and
severity, the characteristics of
his administration, [67].
Named
lieutenant general of the pontifical
army in the ecclesiastical
states, [67].
Enters, with all the
zeal of personal resentment, into
the cause of the Medici, [69].
Named by the pope governor of
Bologna, [70].
Retires from the
government on the death of Clement
VII., [71].
Withdraws himself
from public life, and retires
to his country seat at Montici,
[72].
Solicited by Paul III. to leave
his retreat, and to enter again on
public life, [73].
His death, [73].
His person and character, [74].
Guiducci, Marco, an astronomer of
Florence, II. [36].
H.
Halam, Robert, bishop of Salisbury,
I. [8].
Harrington, Sir John, the first
English translator of Ariosto, I. [216].
Harriot, Thomas, II. [22].
Herrera, Fernando date of his birth
and family unknown, III. [83]. Critique
on his poetry; list of his
prose works, [84]. His "Ode to
Sleep," [87].
Hohenzoller, cardinal, II. [38].
Hoyos, Juan Lopez de, III. [124].
Hugh de Sâde, I. [68].
Huygens, Constantine, II. [57].
I.
Immola, Benvenuta da, I. [2].
Isotta of Padua, II. [76].
Istria, count Capo d', II. [392].
Isunza, Pedro, III. [148].
Ivaldi, don, II. [251].
J.
Jane, queen of Naples, I. [125].
Jansen, the inventor of the Dutch
telescope, II. [13].
John I. of Aragon, III. [6].
John of Florence, canon of Pisa, I. [65].
John II. of Aragon, his love of
poetry and learning secure him
the affections of his adherents;
and, in the midst of civil commotion,
despite his deficiency of
resolution, gathers round him a
court faithful to his cause, and
civilised by its love of letters, III.
[12].
John XXII., pope, II. [101].
Jordí, Mosen Jordi de Sant, the
first and best known of the Spanish
troubadours, III. [6].
Jovius, Paul, I. [257].
Julius II., pope, I. [64].
K.
Kepler, II. [19].