- The Despotisms, [42], [76];
- their justification, [83];
- idea of liberty, [78];
- republican freedom unknown, [91];
- policy commercial, [85];
- taxation, [86];
- diplomacy substituted for warfare, [87];
- illegitimacy, [102];
- good government, [103];
- bad effect of their example, [104];
- courts, [106], [186];
- varieties of despotisms, [109];
- claims of despots due to force, not rank, [116];
- their democratic character, [117];
- uncertainty of tenure of power, [117], [129];
- domestic crime, [119];
- murders, [120];
- tastes and pursuits, [126];
- degeneracy of their houses, [126], [151];
- bad effects of rule, [130];
- centralizing tendencies, [131];
- cruelty, [151];
- absence of all morality, [168].
- The Despotisms, [42], [76];
- Society. Why Italy took the lead in the Renaissance, [5];
- Italians gentle and humane, [478];
- not gluttons, [479];
- personal originality not discouraged, [488];
- Italy originates type of gentleman, [192];
- courtiers, idea of nobility, [186];
- community of interest with that of Roman Church, [470];
- immorality not great relatively, [487];
- superiority to their contemporaries, [489];
- purity of their art shows that heart of the people was not vitiated, [488];
- commercial integrity, [474];
- demoralization of society, [472];
- immorality came from above, [489];
- commonness of crime, [170], [480];
- exceptions to rule, [183];
- murders, [480];
- deficiency in sense of honor, [481];
- chastity in women, [486];
- unnatural passions, [477];
- charms of illicit love, [476];
- immoral literature, [475].
- Literature, early, [53].
- Society. Why Italy took the lead in the Renaissance, [5];
J
- Jews, expulsion from Spain, [400].
- Julia, daughter of Claudius, [22], [23].
- Julius II., [389], [406], [432] seq.
L
- Lecce, Roberto da, [614].
- Leo X., [435], [630].
- Libraries of Renaissance, [21].
- Locke, J., [26].
- Lombards, [48] seq.
- London, mediæval, [137].
- Louis XII., [339].
- Luini, works, [489].
- Lungo, del, cited, [273].
- Luther, [26], [442], [454], [530],
M
- Works, [76], [169], [203], [249], [332], [369], [457], [494];
- military system, [312];
- Art of War, [328];
- History, [331];
- The Prince, [319];
- object in writing it, [321];
- appeal to the Medici, [366];
- apology for the author, [367];
- morality of the work, [324]-6;
- author's sincerity, [333];
- not the inventor of Machiavellianism, [335];
- it assumes Reparation of statecraft and morality, [335];
- an abstract of political expediency, [336];
- how permanently to assimilate provinces, [338];
- colonies, [338];
- founders of monarchies, [343];
- distinction between monarch and despot, [341];
- use of cruelty, [354];
- value of distrust, [358];
- military precautions, [360];
- the work condemned by the Inquisition, [336];
- opinion of it in France, [326];
- Works, [76], [169], [203], [249], [332], [369], [457], [494];