Q.
Quarqualio, Luca, I. [159].
Querenghi, his letter to cardinal
D'Este, giving an account of
Galileo's controversial discussions
at Rome, III. [34].
Quevedo, don Francisco Gomez de,
his birth, parentage, and early
education, III. [246]. His career
checked by a circumstance which
may be considered as fortunate,
[257]. Obliged to fly; takes refuge
in Italy, and thence, invited by
the viceroy, repairs to Naples, [258].
Sent by him as his ambassador to
Madrid, to recount his exploits,
and explain his designs, [259]. Accused
of joining in the Bedmar
conspiracy against Venice, [261].
Continues to escape the vigilance
of the senate, and makes his escape
in the guise of a mendicant,
[262]. His political services, [264].
His literary productions; his imprisonment
and liberation, [265].
Several places offered to him, all
of which he declines, and gives
himself up to study and philosophy,
[266]. Gives up his church
preferments, for the sake of marrying,
[266]. His playful yet bitter
poem, alluding to his evil fate,
[267]. Suspected of writing libels
against the court, arrested, and
imprisoned in a dungeon of the
Royal Casa de San Marcos de
Leon, [268]. His letter, describing
the squalid wretchedness of his
dungeon, [269]. His memorial to
the count duke Olivarez, [270].
His death, [272]. His person and
character, [272]. Critique on his
writings, [273].
R.
Real, Lorenzo, II. [56].
Renieri, the friend and pupil of
Galileo, II. [57].
Ribeyro, Bernardim, one of the
earliest of the Portuguese poets,
III. [290].
Riccardi, Nicolo, II. [41].
Ricci, Giuliano, I. [312].
Ricci, Ostillo, II. [3].
Riego, the canon, II. [391].
Rienzi, Nicola di, I. [92].
Rioja, Francisco de, III. [223].
Rios, don Vicente de los, III. [121].
Robert, king of Naples, I. [86].
Robertis, Father Dionisio, I. [77].
Robertson, Dr., II. [22].
Rollo, Paolo, I. [238].
Romena, count Alessandro da, I. [23].
Roxas, Fernando de, III. [95]. Author
of the first genuine Spanish play,
[96].
Rucellai, Cosimo, I. [304].
Rueda, Lope de, celebrated as an
actor and pastoral poet, III. [98].
Ruiz, Juan, arch-priest of Hita;
brief review of his works, III.[12].
S.
Salvani, Provenzano, I. [24].
Salvanorola, I. [130].
Salvatico, conte Guido, I. [28].
Salvi, Giulio, III, [60].
Santillani, the marquess of, remarks
on his poems, III. [13].
Scala, Can' Grande de la, I. [27].
Scala, Alessandro, II. [75].
Scheiner, professor of mathematics
at Ingoldstadt, II. [25].
Schlegel, III. [234].
Scotus, Duns, I. [9].
Serram, Antonio, III. [324].
Serrano, señor Bachiller, III. [122].
Serraville, Giovanni da, bishop of
Fermo, I. [8].
Settimo, Guido, I. [63].
Sforza, Caterina, I. [262].
Sforza, Ippolita, II. [75].
Signa, Martino da, I. [149].
Sixtus IV., pope, I. [160].
Soderini Pietro, I. [288].
Sotomayor, don Alonzo Lopez de
Zuniga y, III. [157].
Spain, early and anonymous poetry
of, III. [1].
Spini Christofano, II. [180].
Stolberg, Louisa de, countess of
Albany, II. [280].
Her attachment
to Alfieri, [285].
Strada, Giovanni da, I. [117].
Strozzi, Oberto, I. [188].
Sylveira, Hector da, III. [321].
T.
Talleirand, cardinal, I. [100].
Tasso, Bernardo, his birth and
parentage, II. [98].
His early life
and ill-directed love, [99].
At the
age of forty-one, appointed secretary
to Ferrante Sanseverino,
prince of Salerno, [99].
His marriage,
[100].
Commences his poem,
entitled "Amadigi," [100].
His letter
to his sister Afra, [101].
Summoned
away from the delightful
retirement of Sorrento to join his
patron in the war which had
broken out between the emperor
Charles V. and Francis I., [102].
Returns from the army, and enjoys
a brief prolongation of his
domestic quiet, [103].
Declared a
rebel, and his estate confiscated,
along with the adherents of the
duke of Salerno, [104].
His letter
to his daughter, [108].
Flies from
Rome to Ravenna; invited by
the duke of Urbino to Pesara,
where he affords a welcome but
temporary asylum from the persecution
of his enemies, and the
pressure of indigence, [111].
Repairs
to Venice to publish his
work entitled "Amadigi," [113].
Failure of the poem, [119].
Places
his son at Padua to study jurisprudence,
[122].
His interview
with his son at Mantua, [130].
His death, in the seventy-sixth
year of his age, [131].
Tasso, Torquato, review of his life,
II. [96].
His birth, [101].
Nursery
traditions of, [103].
His progress
in the rudiments of knowledge,
under the superintendence of his
mother, [104].
His beautiful and
touching lines on his separation
from her, when called away from
Naples to join his mother at
Rome, [105].
Compared with
Cowper, [106].
His religious sentiments,
[107].
Prosecutes his
studies with indefatigable assiduity
at Rome, [108].
His letter
to Vittoria Colonna, on the subject
of his sister's marriage, [109].
Removes to Bergamo, [111].
Commencement
of his friendship with
the son of the duke d'Urbino,
[112].
Diversities of circumstances,
scene, and company,
calculated to cherish and confirm
all his natural aspirings, [114].
Remark upon a line of Boileau
which has done more injury to
his reputation than all the splenetic
criticisms of Sperone, [115].
Critique on his Writings, [116].
Studies the works of his great
Italian predecessors, [117].
Employed
by his father in transcribing
his multitudinous poems and
letters, [118].
Sudden and passionate
admiration with which his
"Rinaldo" was hailed throughout
Italy, [119].
Placed at Padua
to study jurisprudence, [122]. Gives
up the law, and devotes himself
to philosophy and the Muses, [123].
His reply to his father's remonstrance,
[124].
The appearance of
his "Rinaldo" the dawn of a
new day in the literature of
his country, [124].
All the characteristics
of his peculiar genius
perceptible in the incidents, style,
embellishments, and conduct of
this juvenile essay, [126].
Repairs
to Bologna to pursue his natural
studies, and indulge in his
poetical passion, [127].
Expelled
from Bologna for a literary squib,
[128].
Removes to Padua, where
he is inrolled member of the
Academy degli Eterei, [129].
Devotes
much of his attention to
the works of Aristotle and Plato,
[129].
Remarks on his "Discourse
on Heroic Poetry," [130].
Nominated
one of the personal attendants
of the duke of Ferrara, [131].
Arrives at Ferrara, and is received
into the service of the duke's
brother, [132].
Commencement of
his acquaintance with the princesses
Lucretia and Leonora of
Este, [133].
His description of
his own emotions during his first
visit and sojourn at Ferrara, [134].
Writes an epithalamium on the
marriage of the princess Lucretia,
[136].
His attachment to the
princess Leonora, [137].
Accompanies
the cardinal Luigi to the
court of France, [138].
Personal
anecdotes of, [139].
Accompanies
the embassy to Rome; his interview
with the pope, [140].
Prosecutes
that splendid crusade of
his Muse the poetical siege of
Jerusalem, [140].
His "Aminta"
received with universal admiration
throughout all Italy, [142].
Illness occasioned by his anxiety
about his "Gerusalemme Liberata,"
[144].
Charged with heresy
against Aristotle and good taste
on one hand, and on the other
with heresy against the church
and good morals, [145].
Escapes
from his splendid captivity to
Rome; appointed historiographer
to the house of Este, [146].
Incident
which exhibits him not
less in the character of a hero than
he had hitherto figured in that of
the laureate of poets, [147].
Growing
symptoms of a mind diseased, [148].
His strange melancholy, [149].
Flies secretly to Ferrara to visit
his sister at Sorrento, [150].
Anecdote of, [151].
Committed to
St. Anne's Hospital as a lunatic;
his letter to Scipio Gonzaga
during his confinement, [152].
His
representation of the treatment
which he experienced during his
confinement, [153].
His sonnets
to the cats of the hospital, imploring
them to lend him the
light of their eyes to write by,
[154].
Pursues his studies with
unabated ardour and intensity,
[155].
His wild imaginations, [156].
Liberated at the special intercession
of the prince of Mantua,
[157].
His controversy with the
Della Cruscan Academy during
his imprisonment, [158].
Remarkable
circumstances of his last
days, [159].
Visits Rome, [160].
His death, in the fifty-first year
of his age, [161].
His personal and
poetical character, [161].
Tassoni, Alessandro, his birth, parentage,
and early education;
studies jurisprudence at Ferrara,
II. [169].
Enters the service of
cardinal Colonna; publishes his
"Considerations on various Subjects,"
[171].
Outline of the principal
episode of. "Secchia Rapita,"
[172].
His death, in the
seventy-first year of his age, [173].
Timoneda, III. [99].
Tiraboschi, I. [179].
Torella, Damigella, II. [76].
Tormes, Lazarillo de, III. [101].
Tornabuoni, Lucrezia, I. [167].
Torres, Balthazar de, III. [133].
Torricelli, II. [58].
Turpin, archbishop, I. [169].
U.
Ubaldi, Guido, II. [4].
Ugo IV., king of Cyprus and Jerusalem,
I. [144].
Urban V., pope, I. [145].
Urbino, Gentile d', bishop of Arezzo,
I. [152].
Urbino, captain Diego de, III. [127].
Urbino, donna Isabel de, her marriage
with Lope de Vega, III. [199].
Her death, [200].
Usategui, Luis de, III. [227].