Part 47

Marini, Giambattista, his birth and parentage, II. 174. Encouraged by Tasso to pursue his poetic career, 174. Publishes a volume of lyrical poetry, which establishes his fame, 175. His literary quarrels, 176. Publishes his "Adone" while at Paris; outline of the story, 177. Returns to Italy; is again involved in literary squabbles, 178. His death, in the fifty-sixth year of his age, 179.

Marmont, general, II. 318.

Marotto, Domenico, I. 227.

Mary, natural daughter of Robert, king of Naples, I. 122.

Marzemedici, archbishop of Florence, II. 28.

Mascheroni, Lorenzo, a celebrated mathematician, II. 323.

Mathew Corvino, king of Hungary, I. 160.

Matrapillo, Morato Raez, III. 138.

Mayer, Simon, II. 21.

Medici, Cosmo de', founder of the Medicean library, I. 152.

Medici, Lorenzo de', his early life, I. 152. Devotes most of his time and fortune to the cultivation of literature and the fine arts, 153. Institutes a yearly celebration of the anniversary of Plato's birth and death, 153. His chief merit derived from the revival of his native language, 154. Commentary on his first sonnets, 155. Extract of a translation of one of his sonnets, 156. Brief review of his other poems, 157. His death, at the early age of forty-four, 159.

Memmi, Simon, I. 84.

Mena, Juan de, the most renowned of the early writers, III. 14. Review of his works, 15. His death, 15. Extracts from his poems, 16. Analysis of the "Labyrinto," 17.

Mendoza, don Diego Hurtado de, his birth and parentage, III. 58. His early education, 59. His "Lazarillo de Tormes" declaratory of the originality of his genius, 59. Deputed by Charles V. to attend the council of Trent, 60. Confirms the opinion already entertained of his talents by a learned and elegant oration, 60. Sent as ambassador to Rome; named governor and captain-general of Siena, and ordered to introduce a Spanish garrison, and to build a citadel for its protection, 61. Becomes the object of universal hatred by his haughty and unfeeling conduct, 62. Repairs to Rome, to influence the election of a new pope, 62. Named gonfaloniere of the church, 62. Recalled from the government of Siena to Spain, 63. His philosophical, political, and poetical works, 64. Shows himself an enthusiastic lover of learning, and a liberal patron of learned men, 64. Anecdote of, characteristic of the vehemence of his temper, 65. His "History of the War of the Moriscos in Granada," the most esteemed of his prose works, 66. His death, 67. His character and person, 68. Brief review of his writings, 68.

Metastasio, Pietro, his birth and obscure origin, II. 185. At an early age attracts by his talents as improvisatore, 185. Writes a tragedy, entitled "Giustino," at the early age of fourteen, 186. Continues to improvisare verse in company, 187. Evils that result to the intellect perpetually bent on so exciting a proceeding, 188. Sent to study at Magna Græcia, 189. Returns to Rome, and gives himself up to the study of poetry, 189. Removes to Naples; determines to give up poetry, and to study the law, 190. Commanded by the viceroy to write a drama to celebrate the birthday of the empress Elizabeth Christina; success of the piece, 191. Quits the law, and again devotes himself to the Muses, 191. Receives a commission to furnish the Neapolitan theatre with an opera for the carnival of 1724; success of the piece, 192. Receives a letter from prince Pio of Savoy, inviting him to become the court poet of Vienna, 193. Fulfils his engagement of supplying the Roman theatre with two pieces for the carnival, and makes his appearance at Vienna, surrounded by the halo of a recent triumph, 194. Appointed treasurer to the province of Cosenzo, worth annually 350 sequins, 195. His feelings ingenuously expressed in his letters to Marianna Bulgarelli, 196. His letters to his brother on hearing of her death, 198. Peculiar merits of his poetry, and excellencies of his dramas, 200. The "Grazie agli inganni tuoi," and the "Partenza," among the best of his productions, 203. His ill health attributed to change of climate, 204. His life only to be found in his letters, 205. His letters to his brother, 207. His enthusiastic friendship for Farinelli, the singer, 208. His manner of living at Vienna, 210. His letter to Farinelli, 211. His death, in the eighty-fourth year of his age, 211.

Miranda, Saa de, a Portuguese poet, born in 1494, and died in 1558; his connection with Spanish poetry, III. 88.

Mirandola, Giovanni Pico della, his birth and early education, I. 161. Character of his writings, 161. His death, in the thirty-second year of his age, 162.

Moneada, don Miguel de, III. 127.

Mondejar, the marquis de, III. 41.

Montalvan, friend and disciple of Lope de Vega, III. 189.

Monte, cardinal del, II. 4.

Montefalcone, Niccolo di, I. 147.

Montemayor, Jorge de; his birth and parentage, III. 89. Establishes his fame as an author, by writing his "Diana," 89. Outline and style of the poem, 90. His death, 92.

Monti, Vincenzo, his birth and parentage, II. 305. Anecdote of his childhood, 306. His early education, 307. Gives up every other pursuit, and dedicates himself wholly to the cultivation of literature and poetry, 308. Accompanies cardinal Borghese to Rome, 309. Want of political integrity, and ready worship of ruling powers, the great blot of his character, 310. Continues to cultivate his poetic tastes, 311. Success of his tragedy entitled "Aristodemo," 312. Outline of the piece, 313. His marriage, 314. Celebrates the death of his friend Basseville, in a poem entitled "Basvilliana," 315. Outline and style of the poem, 316. Leaves Rome for Tuscany; his familiar intercourse with general Marmont, 318. Becomes a revolutionary poet, 319. Appointed to the survivorship of the professor's chair at Brera, 321. Falls into a deplorable state of destitution, 322. Celebrates his return to his beloved Italy by a beautiful hymn, 323. Outline of his poem entitled "Mascheroniana," 324. Appointed to a professorship in the university of Pavia; named court poet and historiographer, 326. Made cavalier of the iron crown, member of the Institute, and of the legion of honour, 327. Celebrates the event of Napoleon being crowned king of Italy in a poem, entitled "Il Benificio," 328. His poem in celebration of the attempted usurpation of the Spanish throne, 329. Remarks on his poem entitled the "Sword of Frederic," 331. His translation of Ceruti, 332. Writes, by command, a cantata entitled "Mistico Omaggio," 334. The marriage of his daughter, one of the most fortunate incidents of his life, 335. His observations on the subject of a reform of the national dictionary, 336. Extracts from his letters to Mustoxidi on the subject, 336. To another friend, on the same subject, 339. His literary disputes with Mazza, Cesarotti and Bettinelli terminate in mutual friendship and esteem, 341. His letter on the subject of the classic and romantic schools, 341. His letter to his wife, 343. His letter to his friend Mustoxidi, on the death of his son-in-law, 347. Publishes the last volume of his "Proposta," 348. His last illness, and death, in the seventy-fourth year of his age, 349. His public and private character, 350. His person, 351.

Montoya, Luisa de, III. 162.

Mora, Rodrigo de, III. 127.

Mosti, Agostino, II. 153.

Muñoz, Fernando, III. 192.

Murtola, Gasparo, II. 175.

Mustoxidi, II. 333.

N.

Naharro, Bartolomé Torres, one of the earliest Spanish dramatists, III. 97. Mentioned by the editor of Cervantes' comedies, as the real inventor of the Spanish drama, 98. His reforms in the Spanish theatricals, 99.

Navagero, Andrea, III. 39.

Nasi, Alessandro, I. 287.

Negrete, doctor Juan de, III. 226.

Neri, I. 18.

Noronha, dom Alfonso de, III. 309.

Nozzolini, Ptolemy, II. 28.

O.

Obizzo III., marquis of Este, I. 196.

Oliva, Perez de, one of the earliest Spanish dramatists, III. 96.

Orsino, Paolo, I. 246.

P.

Pacheco, Francisco, the celebrated painter, III. 148.

Pachione, Philippo. I. 227.

Pajares, Alonso Diaz, III. 122.

Panizzi, Dr., I. 168.

Pastrengo, William da, I. 84.

Paul II., pope, I. 180.

Pedrosa, Luis, III. 138.

Pellicer, don Juan Antonio, III. 121.

Pellicer, don Joseph, III. 202.

Pepoli, Geronimo, II. 71.

Perticari, count, II. 336.

Perugini, Paolo, I. 120.

Petracco, Pietro, I. 23.

Petrarch, Francesco, his birth and parentage, I. 61. His early life, 62. Sent to study at the university of Montpellier, 63. Sent to Bologna; makes considerable progress in the study of the law, 64. Recalled to France by the death of his father, 64. Abandons the law, and devotes himself to the clerical profession, 65. His sedulous attention to dress, 65. Becomes the favourite and companion of the ecclesiastical and lay nobles who form the papal court, 65. Commencement of his friendship with Giacomo Colonna, 66. His description of Colonna, 67. His character, 67. His first meeting with Laura de Side, 68. Endeavours to merge the living passion of his soul into the airy and unsubstantial devotion of Platonic attachment, 70. His poetic life dated from the time of his attachment to Laura, 71. His predilection for travelling, 72. Becomes an inmate in the house of cardinal Colonna; his unbounded ardour for acquiring knowledge, 73. Visits Paris; continues his travels through Aix-la-Chapelle and Cologne, 74. Visits Rome; his sensations on entering the eternal city, 75. Leaves Italy, and travels through Spain to Cadiz, and northward as far as the sea-coast of England, 76. Makes an excursion to Mont Ventoux, one of the highest mountains in Europe, 76. His letter to father Dionisio Robertis, giving an account of the expedition, 77. Retires to Vaucluse, 78. His manner of life, 79. Extract from a translation of one of the canzoni, as a specimen of his style, 80. Character of his mistress, 82. His intimacy with Philip de Cabassoles, bishop of Cavaillon, 83. His letter to Giacomo Colonna, on his soliciting him to go to Rome, 84. Receives letters from the Roman senate and the university of Paris, inviting him to receive the laurel crown of poetry; he decides in favour of Rome, 85. Repairs to Rome, and is crowned in the capitol with great solemnity, in presence of all the nobles and high-born ladies of the city, 86. Returns to Avignon; takes on himself the office of barrister, and pleads the cause of the Correggio, against their enemies the Rossi, before the pope, and succeeds in obtaining a decision in their favour, 87. His grief on hearing of the death of Thomas of Messina: his extraordinary dream, 88. Named prior of Migliarino, in the diocese of Pisa, 89. His unabated love for Laura, 90. Applies himself to Greek, under Bernardo Barlaam, 91. Writes his work entitled "The Secret of Francesco Petrarca," 91. Sent as ambassador to Naples, to establish the papal claim, 92. Writes letters full of encouragement to Rienzi, the tribune, 93. Repairs to his house at Parma; his extraordinary dream, 94. His grief on hearing of the death of Laura, 95. His record of her death, 95. Gives large sums in charity for the sake of her soul, and causes many masses to be said for the same purpose, 97. Receives a decree of the Florentine republic, reinstating him in his paternal inheritance, together with letters inviting him to accept of a professor's chair in their university, 99. His letters to pope Clement VI.; again solicited to accept the lace of apostolic secretary, which e again refuses, 100. His treatise "On Solitary Life," 101. Induced by the solicitations of Giovanni Visconti to remain in Milan, 102. His conversation with the emperor Charles V., 102. Sent to Vienna to negotiate a peace, and afterwards sent to Paris to congratulate John, 103. His manner of life at Milan, 104. His record of the death of his son; takes up his abode at Padua, 105. His writings compared with those of Dante, 106. His description of Laura's death, 107. Continues to interest himself deeply in the political state of his country, 109. His letter to Boccaccio; his congratulatory letter to Pope Urban V., 110. Is seized with a violent illness on his way to Rome, 111. His treatise, entitled "On my own Ignorance and that of others," 112. His opinion of the "Decameron" of Boccaccio, 113. His death, 114. His will, 114.

Peraga, Bonaventura da, I. 114.

Petroni, Pietro, I. 139.

Pickler, Giovanni, II. 314.

Pietro, Francesco Santo, III. 127.

Pignoria, Lorenzo, II. 13.

Pineda, don Juan de, III. 108.

Pio, prince of Savoy, II. 193.

Pistolfo, M. Bonaventura, I. 230.

Pistoia, Cina da, I. 64.

Pletho, Gemisthus, I. 151.

Polenta, Guido Novello da, lord of Ravenna, I. 29.

Politian, II. 15.

Poliziano, Angelo, his birth and parentage, I. 162. Review of his writings, 163. Appointed tutor to the children of Lorenzo de' Medici, 164. At the age of twenty-nine appointed to the professorship of Greek and Latin eloquence in the university of Florence, 165. His death, 167.

Porras, doctor Mathias, corregidor of the province of Canta, in Peru, III. 213.

Porta, Baptista, II. 14.

Portugal, early poets of, III. 288.

Pulci, Bernardo, remarks on his works, I. 167.

Pulci, Luca, his works, I. 167.

Pulci, Luigi, style of his writings, I. 168. Extract from his "Morgante Maggiore," 171. Outline of the poem, 173.

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.

Santillana, 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.

Talleyrand, 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.

V.

Vega, Garcilaso de la, his birth and parentage, III. 37. His early predilection for poetry and music, 38. Commences his career of arms in the war declared against France by Charles V., 39. Incurs the displeasure of the emperor, and is exiled to an island of the Danube, 39. His ode in commemoration of his imprisonment characteristic of his disposition, 40. Is recalled, and attends the emperor in his expedition against Tunis; is severely wounded, 41. Extract from one of his elegies to Boscan, 42. Appointed by the emperor to command eleven companies of infantry, in the expedition against France, 45. Killed in an engagement at Muy, near Fréjus, in the thirty-third year of his age, 46. His person and character, 47. Review of his poetry, 48. Mr. Wiffen's translation of his ode "To the Flower of Gnido," 53.