Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) / The Age of the Despots

by John Addington Symonds

• Raffaella quoted, [483].
• Raphael, works, [488].
• Reformation, [433];
  • how affected by Renaissance, 27.
• Rembrandt, works, [490].
• Renaissance (see Middle Age), not synonymous with "revival of learning," [1];
  • not completed, [2];
  • extent of signification, [2-3];
  • origin, [3];
  • idea not separable from "Reformation," "Revolution," [5];
  • effect on old beliefs, [14], [16];
  • all its tendencies worldly, [455];
  • restores double past, Christian and pagan, [506];
  • obstacles in the way, [5];
  • preparation, [9];
  • opposition of the Church, [10];
  • character of the men, [12];
  • discoveries, [15];
  • scholarship, [20];
  • assimilation of paganism, [25];
  • reaction against enlightenment, [25];
  • inventions, [29].
• Reuchlin, 27.
• Reumont, A. von, cited, [212], [524].
• Ripamonti quoted, [163], [167].
• Robbia, works, [489].
• Romagna, [349].
• Romano, Ezzelino da, [69], [75], [106], [119];
  • Giulio, works, [490].
• Rome (see Italy, Papacy), effect of its ruins, [253];
  • appearance at time of French occupation, [564];
  • early mediæval history, [47];
  • opposition to Lombards, [49];
  • government semi-independent of pope, [376];
  • advantages derived from presence of papal court, [377];
  • improvements under Nicholas V., [378],
  • impunity of criminals, [405];
  • factions destroyed, [413];
  • rising of Colonnas, [443];
  • sack, [444], [636];
  • prostitutes, [474].
• Romeo and Juliet, [74],
• Rosellini, works, [489],
• Rosenbaum cited, [567].
• Royere, F. della (see Sixtus IV.);
  • Francesco Maria, [393];
  • Giuliano (see Julius II,);
  • Pietro, [390].
• Rubens, works, [490].

R

• Sadoleto, quoted, [446].
• Savelli, [375].
• Savonarola, [202], [221], [230], [277], [283], [290], [345], [368], [453], [454], [456], [491], [498] seq., [561], [622];
  • poems, [502];
  • settles in Florence, [504];
  • portraits, [508];
  • eloquence, [510];
  • creed, [513];
  • prophecies, [514];
  • political career, [526];
  • hatred of secular culture, [527];
  • dares not break with Rome, [531];
  • martyrdom, [533];
  • works, [536];
  • quoted, [128].
• Savoy, [146].
• Scala, della, family, [145], [258].
• Scheffer-Bolchorst cited, [252], [269].
• Segal, [278], [280], [289];
  • works [292], seq.
• Sforza family, [131] seq.;
  • their magnificience, [164];
  • to be made kings of Lombardy, [392];
  • Francesco, [153], [159] seq., [345];
  • Galeazzo, [165];
  • Ludovico, [543] seq.
• Shelley cited, [477].
• Siena, [207], [616].
• Sismondi quoted, [138], [144], [159], [226], [533].
• Sixtus IV., [388] seq., [502].
• Soderini, P., [289], [324].
• Spaniards, cruelty of, [478].
• Spinoza, [26].
• Stendhal cited, [482].
• Stephani, the, [23].
• Strozzi, Ercole, [423]; F., [285].
• Swiss, [450].
• Syphilis, history of, [567].

T

• Tasso, [486].
• Temporal Power (see Papacy).
• Tenda, Beatrice di, [152].
• Theodoric, [47].
• Theology, effect of Renaissance upon, [16].
• Tiraboschi, quoted, [173].
• Titian, works, [19].
• Torre, della, [132].
• Trinci, [122].

U

• Urbino, dukes of, [174] seq., [393], [438].

V

• Valois, Charles of, [76].
• Varani, [121].
• Varchi, [278], [290];
  • works, [279], [303] seq.;
  • quoted, [204], [244], [505].
• Venice, [79], [88], [91];
  • an exception among the republics, [195], [214];
  • constitution, [215];
  • the Ten, [218];
  • fascination exercised by government, [220];
  • military system, [220];
  • no initiative mining citizens, [233];
  • compared with Sparta, [234];
  • indifference to prosperity of Italy, [550].
• Vespusiano quoted, [174], [477], [612].
• Vettori, F., [624];
  • works, [626].
• Vicenza, John of, [607].
• Villani, M., works, 251 seq.,
  • quoted, [128], [139].
• Villari, quoted, [195], [500].
• Vinci, da, [326], [548];
  • works, [489].
• Virgil, [20].
• Virtu, [171], [337], [345], [484], [493].
• Visconti, family, [131] seq.;
  • their realm falls to pieces, [150];
  • Filippo, [152];
  • Gisa, [141];
  • Violante, [137].

W