Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2)

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

C.

Cabassoles, Philip de, bishop of
Cavaillon, his intimacy with Petrarch,
I. [83].
Cabral, Antonio, III. [324].
Cabral, Fernando Alvares, III. [311].
Cacciaguida, I. [2].
Caccini, his personal attack upon
Galileo from the pulpit, II. [31].
Cassalpinus, Andrew, the celebrated
botanist, II. [3].
Cæsarini, Virginio, II. [37].
Caffarelli, general, II. [375].
Calderon, don Pedro, his birth,
parentage, and early education,
III. [279]. His fame established as a
poet, [280]. Enters the military service
at the age of five and twenty,
[280]. Summoned to court by a
royal order, for the sake of writing
a drama for a palace festival,
[281]. Quits the army, and becomes
a priest, [281]. His death
and character, [282]. Review of
his writings, [283].
Calistus II., pope, I. [169].
Caloria, Tommaso, I. [87].
Caluso, the abatte, II. [274].
Camara, Ruy Diaz de, III. [327].
Camerlingo, cardinal, II. [163].
Camoens, Vasco Perez de, his birth
and parentage, III. [296]. Extract
from his "Lusiad," [299]. Translation
of a sonnet in commemoration
of that attachment which
shed a disastrous influence over
the rest of his life, [303]. Compared
with Petrarch, [304]. Dr.
Southey's translation of one of
his sonnets, [306]. His exile, [307].
Mutilated in the wars of his
country, but receives neither reward
nor preferment, [310]. His
pathetic description of his friend
Noronha's exile, [312]. Offers to
serve as a volunteer, and accompanies
Vasconcellos in his expedition
against the Mahometans,
[315]. Suspected of composing another
satire; arrested, and banished
to China, [316]. Retires
from the details of business, to
pursue his poetical occupations,
[317]. Obtains leave to return to
Goa; is wrecked at the mouth
of the Mecon, [315]. Pursues his
voyage to Goa, where he is received
by the viceroy with kindness
and distinction, [320]. Extracts
from the seventh canto of
the "Lusiad," [321]. His poem commemorating
the death of Caterina
d'Atayde, [322]. Accompanies
Baretto, when he was appointed
governor of Sofala, [323]. Returns
to Portugal, [324]. Political
state of the country disadvantageous
to him, [325]. Writes the
"Parnasso de Luis Camoens,"
[325]. A pension of 15,000 reis
granted to him, [326]. His illness
and poverty, [327]. His interview
with the cavalier Camara, [328].
His death, [329]. His person, [329].
Review of his life, [330]. Review
of his writings, [332].
Campaldino, the battle of, I. [14].
Camporese, the renowned philosopher,
II. [189].
Cancionero, the, III. [9].
Canigiani, Eletta, the mother of
Petrarch, I. [61].
Caprona, the siege of, I. [15].
Carafa, Federigo, III. [41].
Carnescecchi, Pietro, II. [81].
Caro, Rodrigo, III. [83].
Casavecchia, Filippo, I. [296].
Castañeda, Gabrièl de, III. [133].
Castelli, Benedetti, II. [28].
Castillano, Diego, III. [138].
Castillejo, Cristoval, III. [93]. Specimen
of his style, [94].
Cavalcanti, Guido, I. [19].
Cavalcanti, Mainardo de', I. [134].
Caza, Francesco della, I. [263].
Celsi, Lorenzo, doge of Venice, I.
[105].
Cervantes, III. [120]. His birth and
parentage; little known of his
early life, [123]. Enters a student
in the university of Salamanca,
[124]. His poems published at
Madrid, [125]. Leaves Madrid in
the service of cardinal Acquaviva,
[125]. Visits Rome; changes
the whole course of his life; and
volunteers to be a soldier, [126].
His services during the Turkish
war, [127]. Wounded in the battle
of Lepanto, [128]. Receives an
increase of pay, and is passed
into a company of the tercio of
Figueroa, [128]. Visits Rome, Florence,
Venice, Bologna, Naples,
and Palermo, [129]. Taken prisoner
by an Algerine squadron
on his return to Spain, [130]. Interesting
details of his captivity,
[131]. Makes several attempts to
regain his liberty, [133]. Detected
in planning his escape; is sentenced
to the bastinado, [137].
His courage and heroism excite
the respect of the friars of the
Order of Mercy, who resided at
Algiers for the purpose of treating
for the ransom of the Christian
captives, [139]. Ransomed for
500 golden ducats, and left free
to return to Spain, [140]. Determines
to refute certain calumnies
of which he was the object, [141].
Returns to his native land depressed
by poverty, and obscured
by want, [142]. Becomes again a
soldier by profession, [143]. First
appears as an author in the year
1584, [144]. His marriage with
donna Catilina de Palacios y
Salazar, [145]. Commences writing
for the theatre; endeavours to
rectify the deficiencies of the
stage and scenery, [146]. Accepts
the situation of commissary, and
sets out with his family for Seville,
[147]. His office abolished;
he becomes the agent to various
municipalities, corporations, and
wealthy individuals, [148]. During
his distasteful employment at
Seville, acquires the bitter view
of human affairs displayed in
Don Quixote, [149]. Translation
of his verses to the monument of
the kings at Seville, [150]. Various
annoyances which he suffered
in his financial occupations
at Seville, [151]. Anecdote, displaying
the style in which justice
was carried on in Spain, [152].
Removes with his family to Valladolid,
[153]. His poverty the great
and clinging evil of his life, [153].
His letter to his uncle during his
imprisonment at La Mancha, [154].
Writes "Don Quixote" during his
imprisonment, [155]. Fails in his
attempt to introduce himself to
the duke of Lerma, [156]. Difficulties
which he encounters in
publishing "Don Quixote," [157].
The "Buscapié" attributed to
him, [158]. Success of "Don Quixote"
excites the enmity of the
men of letters of his day, [160].
Suspected of murder, and thrown
with his entire family into prison,
[162]. Is set at liberty, [162].
Publishes his "Voyage to Parnassus,"
[164]. Anecdote, showing
the high esteem in which "Don
Quixote" was held, [165]. Brings
cut his "Twelve Tales," which
raises yet higher his character
as an author, [167]. His portrait
of himself, in his preface to the
"Twelve Tales," [168]. His account
of the origin of the Spanish
drama, and the amelioration
that he in his younger days introduced,
[169]. Publishes his
"Persiles and Sigismunda," and
the second part of "Don Quixote,"
[170]. His dedication of it
to the count of Lemos, [171]. His
last illness, [172]. His interview
with the student of Toledo, [173].
His farewell letter to the count
of Lemos, [174]. His death, in the
sixty-ninth year of his age, [174].
His character, [174]. Brief review
of his works, [175]. Extract
from his "Numantia," [176]. Extract
from the comedy of "Life
in Algiers," [178]. Extract from
his "Voyage to Parnassus," [184].
Cetina, III. [93].
Charlemagne, I. [2].
Charles of Valois, I. [20].
Chiabrera, Gabbriello, his birth,
parentage, and early education,
II. [163]. Enters into the service
of cardinal Camerlingo, [163].
Writes some odes in imitation of
Pindar; makes the Greek lyrical
poets his models, [164].
Wishes to transfuse the spirit of
the Greeks into the Italian language,
[165]. Style of his poetry,
[166]. Specimen of his serious
style, as translated by Wordsworth,
[166]. His death and character, [168].
Chiaramonte, Scipio, II. [44].
Chrysoloras, Emanuel, I. [151].
Ciani, a Carthusian monk; his visit
to Boccaccio, I. [139].
Clement VI., pope, I. [89].
Colombe, Lodovico delle, II. [28].
Colonna, Giacomo, commencement
of his friendship with Petrarch,
I. [66].
Colonna, cardinal, I. [73].
Colonna, Vittoria, her birth, parentage,
and marriage, II. [77].
Her letter to her husband during
his imprisonment, [78]. Her grief
at his death, [79]. Extracts from
her poems, [80]. Her death, [81].
Conrad III., emperor, I. [2].
Consalvo, the Spanish general, I. [284].
Convennole, I. [63].
Copernicus, II. [7].
Correggio, Azzo, I. [87].
Coutinho, Miguel Rodriguez, III.
[321].
Couto, Diogo de III. [324].

D.

Dante Alighieri, his parentage, I.
[1]. Born in the spring of 1265, [2].
Fable concerning his birth, [3].
Extracts from his "Paradiso,"
and his "Inferno," [4]. His early
education, [5]. Enters upon his
noviciate at a convent of the
Minor Friars, but withdraws before
the term of probation was
ended, [6]. Story of his early love
for Beatrice, [7]. Pursues his
studies in the universities of
Padua, Bologna, and Paris, [8].
Supposed to have visited Oxford,
[8]. High estimation in which
his works were held in England,
[9]. His progress in the schools
of divinity and philosophy, [9].
His marriage with Madonna
Gemma, [10]. Style of his poetry,
[11]. His domestic discomforts,
[12]. His character as a citizen, a
soldier, and a magistrate, [13].
Serves among the cavalry in the
battle of Campaldino, [14]. His
extraordinary valour during that
engagement; his allusion to it
in Canto XII. of the "Inferno,"
[15]. Is again in the field
at the siege of Caprona, [15]. Extract
from Canto XXI. of the
"Inferno," alluding to this action,
[16]. Traditional account of
his embassies to the courts of
Hungary, Naples, and France,
[16]. Chosen in the year 1300, by
the suffrages of the people, chief
prior of his native city, [17]. His
endeavours to put down the factions
of the Bianchi and Neri,
[18]. Appeals to the people at
large to support the executive
government, [19]. Accused of partiality
to the Bianchi, [20]. Undertakes
an embassy to Rome, to
solicit the good offices of the
pope towards pacifying his fellow
citizens without foreign interference,
[21]. Anecdote of, [21].
During his absence, his dwelling
demolished by the Neri, his property
confiscated, and a fine of
8000 lire decreed against him,
with banishment for two years,
[22]. Joins himself with the
Bianchi, who transfer their affections
to the Ghibelines, deeming
the adherents of the emperor
less the enemies of their country
than their adversaries, [23].
Withdraws
from the confederacy in
disgust, [23]. Extract from his
"Del Paradiso," in allusion to
this subject, [24]. Extract from
his "Purgatorio," [25]. Endeavours
to obtain a reversal of his
unrighteous sentence, [25]. Appeals
to Henry of Luxemburgh;
dedicates his political treatise,
entitled "De Monarchia," to
that prince, [26]. A third decree
passed against him; he retires to
France, [27]. Anecdotes of his
caustic humour, [28]. Compared
with Marius, [29]. His mental
sufferings during his nineteen
years' banishment, [30]. His letter,
refusing the conditions offered
by the Florentine government,
[31]. His death, on the 14th
of September, 1321, [33]. His
splendid funeral, [34]. Monuments
raised to his memory, [35].
His confiscated property restored
to his family, [35]. His memory
execrated, and his writings proscribed
by pope John XXII., [35].
His person, as described by Boccaccio,
[37]. Anecdote of, [38]. His
family, [39]. Notice of his writings,
[40]. Origin of the "Divina
Commedia," [42]. Dramatic character
of the work, [44]. Extract
from Canto X. of the "Inferno,"
[46]. His character as a man and
a poet, [54]. Character of his
poetry, [58].
Demisiano, II. [15].
Demourier, General, II. [315].
Digby, Sir Kenelm, II. [11].
Donati, Corso, I. [12].
Donati Lucretia, I. [156].
Dramatists, the, of Spain, III. [95].

E.

Elia, the faithful servant of Alfieri,
II. [266].
Enriquez, Feliciano, III. [141].
Enzina, Juan, style of his writing,
III. [17]. Translation of one of his
songs, [18].
Ercilla, don Alonzo de, III. [103].
His birth, parentage, and early
education, [103]. Appointed page
to prince Philip, [104]. Leaves the
personal service of the prince to
join the expedition sent against
the Araucanos, an Indian tribe,
in South America, which had
risen against Spain, [106]. His
account of the expedition, [107].
Narrowly escapes an early and
disastrous end, [108]. Leaves Chili
in disgust, without having been
duly rewarded for his services,
[110]. Proceeds to the Terceiras,
and thence to Spain, [111]. His
marriage, [111]. Appointed chamberlain
to Maximilian, [112].
Anecdote of, [112]. Only known in
the literary world by his poem,
"La Araucana," [113]. Critique
on his poem, [114].
Espinel, Vicente, his birth and
parentage, III. [239]. His death,
[240].
Este, cardinal Hippolito d', I. [203].
Anecdote illustrative of his cruelty, [209].
Esto, Bianca d', II. [76].
Exarch, Onofrio, III. [138].
Ezpeleta, don Gaspar de, III. [161].

F.

Fabricius, John, II. [25].
Fabbroni, II. [10].
Faggiuolo, signori della, I. [28].
Faliero, Marino, doge of Venice, I. [105].
Falucci, the conti, I. [28].
Fantoni, Sebastian, II. [51].
Farinelli, the singer, his friendship
for Metastasio, II. [209].
Farnese, Orazio, III. [62].
Fedele, Cassandra, II. [76]. Her
death, [76].
Feliciana de Vega, III. [227].
Fermo, Oliverotto da, I. [266].
Ferranti, Pietro, I. [21].
Ferrara, Cieco da, his writings, I.
[179].
Ferreira, Antonio, mentioned as
the classic poet of Portugal, III.
[292]. His death and character,
[293]. Style of his writings, [294].
Ficino, Marsiglio, I. [152]. His birth
and early education, [159]. Brief
review of his works, [160]. His
death, in the sixty-sixth year of
his age, [161].
Figueroa, don Lope, III. [127].
Filicaja, Vincenzo da; his birth,
parentage, and early education,
II. [180]. His marriage, [181]. His
enthusiastic piety, [181]. His characteristics,
facil dignity, and
clearness, [182]. Fills several law
offices of great power and emolument,
[183]. His death, in the
sixty-fifth year of his age, [184].
Foscarinus, Paul Anthony, II. [51].
Foscolo, Ugo, his birth and parentage,
II. [354]. His early education,
[355]. Resolves to follow the steps
of Alfieri, and to acquire fame as
a tragedian; produces his drama
of "Thyestes" at the early age
of nineteen, [356]. Political allusions
that gave it its chief interest,
[357]. Extracts from his
work, entitled "Letters of Jacopo
Ortis," [358]. Leaves Venice,
and takes the road to Tuscany,
[360]. Pursues his way to Milan,
the then capital of the Cisalpine
republic, [361]. His indignation at
the sentence passed by the great
council against the Latin language,
[362]. Falls in love with a
young lady of Pisa, [362]. His attachment
not fortunate; he suffers
all the throes of disappointment
and grief, [363]. Becomes an
officer in the Lombard legion,
[363]. His bravery during the
siege of Geneva, [364]. His letter
to Napoleon, [364]. Returns to Milan
after the battle of Marengo,
[365]. Increases his fame by the
publication of his "Last Letters
of Jacopo Ortis," [365]. Outline
of the piece, [366]. Its success
immediate and striking, [369].
His person, as described by Pecchio,
[369]. Anecdotes of, [370].
Publishes an oration to Bonaparte,
[371]. Its style forcible and
rhetorical, [372]. Enters on the
study of the Greek language;
undertakes the translation of
Sterne's "Sentimental Journey,"
[373]. His egotistical account of
his own singularities, [374]. Undertakes
to make a new edition
of the military works of Montecucoli,
with notes, [375]. Writes
his "Ode on Sepulchres;" outline
of the poem, [376]. Publishes
his translation of the first book of
the Iliad, [377]. Installed professor
in the university of Pavia, [377].
His introductory oration on the
origin and use of letters, [378].
Retreats from the university, to
the seclusion of the Lake of
Como, [378]. Commences his
"Ode to the Graces," [379]. Political
tendency of his writings,
[380]. Submits to an exile from
Milan, and again visits Tuscany,
[381]. Style of his writings in
general, [382]. Resumes his military
duties; promoted to the
rank of colonel, [384]. His conversation
with Pecchio; leaves
Italy in disguise, and takes refuge
in Switzerland, [385]. Repairs
to England, and is received
with open arms by the Whig
party, [386]. Ceases to be a lion,
and retires to the neighbourhood
of St. John's Wood, near the Regent's
Park, [387]. Supports himself
chiefly by writing for the Quarterly
Review, [387]. Outline of
his tragedy of "Ricciarda," [388].
Delivers a course of lectures on
Italian literature, [389]. Obliged
to provide for daily necessity, by
writing for various reviews and
magazines, [390]. His illness, [391].
His death, [392]. His character
and literary merits, [393].
Francesca, daughter of Petrarch,
I. [106].
Frangipani, I. [1].
Franzesi, don Juan, III, [62].
Fuccarius, II. [13].

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].
Garcia 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].