Accolti, Bernardo, itinerant singer,
273.

age of marriage, 27, 28, 98.
Agrippa, Cornelius, his view of mar-
riage, 21; on Louise of Savoy,
166 n; book on the Pre-eminence of
the Female Sex, 400; lectures on
Plato, 402.

Alexander VI., pope, on Urbino mar-

riage, 52; his hunting, 247; on
monks, 463.

Alfonso of Aragon's wedding, 40.
Alfonso of Naples' dinners, 231.
Alione's ballad, 121 n; anecdote by,

222.

almsgiving, 66-69.

Amadis de Gaule, its popularity, 269.
Amaretta, Costanza, 339, 340.
'amateurs,' 56, 264, 388.
Amboise, cardinal of, 146, 257.
Andrelini, Fausto, 17, 326.

Anet, château of Diana of Poitiers,
387.

animals, platonist attitude towards,
244.

Anne de Graville quoted, 198 n.
Anne of Brittany, 145, 375.
Anne of France, her first lover, 26 n;
as sick nurse, 54; her charity, 68;
views on education, 85, 89-91; on
girls' stories, 100-102; school of
manners,' 103; on maternal self-
sacrifice, 105; on mourning, 129,
130, 133; on valour, 146; on love-
making, 165; her character, 166-
168; idea of charm, 180, 181; her
platonism, 181; compared with
Margaret, 197; opinion on 'age of
wisdom,' 214; on dress, 216, 218;
hunting, 252, 253; books, 265;
political career, 313, 314; love of
art, 375.

Anne of Polignac, 13/

Baden in Aargau, 259, 260.

balls, 232, 236; Daneau on, 236, 237.
baths, 254; Calvinists' view of, 255,
256; life at, 259, 260.
Battista Spagnuoli, his view of
marriage, 21; of baths, 258; of
monks, 460.

beards, dispute on growing of, 370.
Beatrice d'Este, see D'Este.
beauty, platonist idea of, 158, 159,
161; Bembo's idea of, 160; Michel-
angelo's, 161; distrusted, 196; pre-
servation of, 215.

Bembo, on Latin for girls, 96; his
Asolani, 156, 432; on love, 159-
161; conversation, 294, 295; hand-
writing, 304; his Morosina, 366-368,
390; his talk, 403, 404; idea of
poetry, 404; relations with Olympia
Morata, 428; letter to Isabella
d'Este, 432.

Beroaldo, Filippo, on drunkenness,
298; on love and Propertius, 402,
403.

Bibbiena on Catherine Sforza, 29;
his Calandra, 79, 278, 279; decora-
tion of his bath-room, 256; his
letters, 307; his liberalism, 432;
anecdote of, 463.

Bible, reading of, 155, 288, 438, 439.
bibliennes, the, 426, 435.

Billon, 481.

Blando, Michelangelo, on hunting,
251, 252.
blasons, 208.

Boccaccio, popularity of, 100, 268,

398.

Bonaventure des Périers, see Des
Périers.
Boistuau, 480.

Bonnivet, admiral de, 178, 213.
books, 88, 263.

Botticelli's Venus and Cupid, 318.
Bouchet, Jean, on flirtation, 105,
106; remedy for materialism, 147;
story of ladies of Poitiers, 288;
Les Regnars traversant les voies
périlleuses, 392.

Bourget, Paul, his naturalism con-
trasted with Ruskin's, 499, 500.
boutrimés, 300.

boys' education, 75, 76.
Brandiolini, Aurelio, musician, 273.
Brandt's Ship of Fools, 416.
Brantôme on tutors, 99, on marquis

of Pescara's book, 124; on spicy
literature, 266; on Mortemart
ladies, 286; on the court, 495.
Brascha, ambassador, 42, 43.
Briçonnet, bishop of Meaux, 470.
Budé, Guillaume, Livre de l'Institu
tion du prince, 250, 251; on re-
ligion, 454.

burial customs, 129.

Burye, character in Heptameron, 385.

Calvin on women, 84, 467; on
divorce, 339; character of Reforma-
tion, 467.

Calvinists, objection to fine wed-
dings, 37; to baths, 255, 256.
Cardan on marriage, 32; on gout,
230; on talk, 285; life at Venice,
290 n.

Carnesecchi, 259.
carpet knights, 369.

Castelli, Cardinal, his hunting ode,
248, 249.

Castiglione, relations with his wife,

51; theory of social aesthetics, 144;
on Raphael, 157; on intellectual
occupations for women, 261; his
Courtier, 265, 395, 404, 405 n; on
music, 274; on talk, 292; on duke
of Urbino, 293; handwriting, 304;
letters to Vittoria Colonna, 306,
395; letter to Marchesa Scaldasole,

306; on viragos, 319; on painting,
377, 381, 431.

Cataneo, on two loves, 156, 159.
Catherine de' Medici, see De' Medici.
Catholicism and colour, 220; rela-

tion to philosophy, etc., 456 ff.
Caviceo, his Peregrino, 22, 239.
Célestine, La, 270.

Chailly, Louis XII.'s hound, 249.
Champier on marriage age, 28; Livre
de vraye amour, 45, 46; on doctors,
59; on love, 114, 168; on women
and men, 301.
charity, 66-69.

charm, theory of, 195-200.
chase, the, 246-253.

Christian socialism, 142.
churches, mundane use of, 237-240.
Church's distrust of women, 422, 423.
Cibo, Caterina, papaline, 428, 457.
cicisbeo, 346, 347.

classics, respect for, 143, 156, 157.
clergy, character of, 165, 434-438.
Clichtoue's philosophy of life, 146,
147.

Clouet, Jean, 207.

college education, 75, 76, 78.
Collerye, Roger, quoted, 46 n, 115 n.
Colonna, Ascanio, 312.

Colonna, Pompeo, his Apologia pro
mulieribus (Ms. in M. de Maulde's
possession), 399, 400.

Colonna, Vittoria, age of betrothal,
27; widowhood, 131, 316, 317;
relations with Michelangelo, 163,
182, 183, 395; on painting, 182;
relations with Carnesecchi, 259;
letter to Paulo Giovio, 292; hand-
writing, 304; letters, 305-308, 450,
451; character, 316, 317, 328;
relations with Aretino, 390, 391;
with Dolce, 394; with Bembo,
394; her poetry, 163, 404, 405;
religion, 428, 469; relations with
Pole, 429; her prayer, 442; rela-
tions with Ochino, 469, 470.
colours, 219-221.
complexions, 199.

concubinage, 113, 363-366.

Condivi on Michelangelo, 162, 182,
183.

Consentana, countess of, anecdote of,
129.

conversation, 284-302, 345, 347.
coquetry, 187.

Coquillart, 105, 325.

Correggio's St. Jerome, 449; Mystic
Marriage, 450.
correspondence, 304-310.

Costa, Lorenzo, picture by, 276.
country life, 242, 243.
country squires, 64, 140.
courtesans, 356-362.

Courtier, Castiglione's, 265, 395, 404.
Cremonini, 152.

Cymbalum, Des Périers', 386, 393.

D'Albret, Charlotte, 131.
D'Albret, Henri, 53, 334, 352.
D'Amboise, Catherine, 444.
D'Amboise, Françoise, 132.
D'Amboise, Michel, 206, 252.
dancing, 233-237.

Daneau on dancing and balls, 236,
237.

Dangu, Nicolas, 384.
Dante, 406.

D'Aragona, see Tullia.

De Beaulieu, Eustorg, 99.

De Bourbon, Gabrielle, expenditure,
66; lack of dowry, 117; death of
her son, 126; religious works, 443.
De Clermont, Mlle, 24, 385.
De Longray, Mme, 385.

De' Medici, Catherine, her 'flying
squadron,' 103.

De' Medici, Julian, 205.

De Montausé, 384.

Des Périers, Bonaventure, 59, 386,

387; his Cymbalum, 386, 393, 418.

De Pons, 315, 316.

De Soubise, Madame, 315.
Desprez, Josquin, 275.

D'Este, Beatrice, 318.

D'Este, Isabella, setter of fashions,
219; on pilgrimage, 240; love of
art, 374, 375.
D'Etampes, duchess, 364.
dialogues, 156, 403.

Diana of Poitiers, as widow, 131;

her portraits, 207, 211; statue of,
by Goujon, 208; relations with
king, 364, 365; love of art, 387.
divorce, 127, 338, 339.
doctors, 55-58.

Dolce on misadventures of husbands,

58; on education, 94, 95; the
moon, 423.

domestic letters, 117 n, 126, 304-310.
dowries, 117-119.

'dragons,' 330, 331.

drama, 278-283.

dress, 216-223.
drinking, 229, 230.

Du Bellay, 169 n, 362, 365, 408, 476,
477, 479, 483, 484.
Du Four, 165.
Dürer's women, 203.
dwelling house, 223, 224.

eating, customs in, 229-231.
education, 74-78, 86-100.
Egnatius, 31.

Eleanor, wife of Francis I., 53.
Equicola, Di natura d'amore, 161.
Erasmus, 'on virginity, 32; on mater-
nity, 48; education, 82, 97; hus-
bands, 116; women's stupidity,
157n; church music, 277; his
attitude to reformers, 473.
Estienne, Henri, 84.
Eustorg de Beaulieu, 99.
eyes, 199.

facéties, 266-268.

Feo, lover of Catherine Sforza,30,321.
Ferrara, music at, 276; talk at, 290.
Ficino, Marzilio, on platonic love,
154, 158, 159.

Firenzuola, on beauty, 196; his
stories, 299; his inspiration, 399.
flirtation, 103-107.

Florentine worship of Plato, 153,
154; idea of charm, 198.
flowers, 243.
Folengo, 465.

Francis I., 62, 125, 169, 170, 240,

251, 265; his mistresses, 363, 364.
Francis de Paule, St., story of, 461.
Franco, Veronica, 358.

free love, 327.

Fregoso, detractor of women, 298.
French marriage customs, 37-39;
country gentry, 64-66; society,
140-142; worship of rank, 144,
145; idea of charm, 198; drama,
282, 283; conversation, 296, 297;
letters, 308-310.

Gambara, Veronica, 364, 394.
gambling, 237.

Gastius' table talk, 232.

Gazius, Florida Corona, treatise on
health, 255.

German girls' education, 89; table
talk, 297; opposition to Italy, 415,
416; liberalism, 433; narrowness,
434; monks, 466.

Gioconda, see Monna Lisa.
girls'education, 86-100; tutors, 98, 99.
Gonzaga, Julia, 52.
Gonzaga, Leonora, 28.

Goujon's statue of Diana, 208.

hair, popular colour of, 199.
hair-dressing, 216, 217.
handwritings, 303, 304.
Helysenne de Crenne, 39.
Henri II., 364.

Heptameron quoted, 24, 25, 33, 34, 49,
53, 84, 112 n, 151, 173, 175, 189,
212, 213, 296, 298, 299, 329, 334,
335, 351, 353, 354; realist char-
acter of, 382-385.

Héroët de la Maisonneuve, 344, 418.
history, 401.

hood, the, 217.

households, constitution of, 66.
Huguenots on dancing, 236, 237.
hunting, 246-253.

husbands' authority, 109, 110.
Hütten, Ulrich von, 83, 466, 467.
hydrotherapeutics, 254-258.

illegitimacy, 338.

Imitation of Christ, 139, 150.
Imperia, courtesan, 358, 361.
impromptus, 300.
incomes, 64, 68, 117.

Inghirami, Tommaso, 280, 281, 300;
anecdote of, 431.

'innocents,' the, 212.

instrumental music, 276-278.

interviews, 29.

Isabella d'Este, see D'Este.

Isabella of Aragon, 312.
Isabella the Catholic, 323.

Italian marriage customs, 34; educa-
tion, 94-96; drama, 278-281; con-
versation, 285-296; letters, 306;
monks, 465.

Jews, hatred of, 478
Joan of Aragon, 312, 407
Joanna, wife of Philip the Fair,
anecdote of, 114, 115.
Josquin Desprez, 275.
Jove, Paul, 52, 292.

Julius II., anecdote of, 68; hunting,
247; beard, 370.

kissing, 233-235.

Labé, Louise, poetess, on dress, 218;

accomplishments, 245; on music,
274; poetry, 412, 413.

La Bruyère quoted, 115, 210, 296,
372.

ladies' letters, 305.

Lancelot du Lak, 269.
lapdogs, 244.

La Rochefoucauld quoted, 111, 184,
214, 314.

La Salle, Antoine de, 79.

La Trémoille, Louis de, 29, 117; see
Gabrielle de Bourbon.

Lefèvre d'Etaples, 250, 264.
Lemaire de Belges, 79, 327, 401.
Leo X., 247, 280, 300, 362, 425, 431.
Leonardo's Monna Lisa, 191; ideal
of beauty, 200.

letters, domestic, 126, 127 n.
letter-writing, 303.

liberalism at Rome, 430, 431, 433,
434, 473.

life at spas, 259, 260.
Limosin, Leonard, 207.

literature, licentious character of,
391-393.
Longueil, 473.

Louis XI., 118.

Louis XII., 64, 67, 118, 129, 234, 249.
Louise of Savoy, her views on educa-
tion, 77, 85, 96; her sphere, 170,
311; her reading and books, 262,
265, 267; her politics, 311; on
mystic love, 335; her principles,
354.

Luther on celibacy, 32; divorce, 338;
on women, 467; his true relation
to Reformation, 468.
Lyons, headquarters of feminine
poetry, 411.

Madeleine, sister of Francis I., 309.
Maillard, Oliver, on bathing, 255;
his preaching, 459, 460.
Marescalco, Aretino's, 281.
Margaret of Austria, her collections,
226; career, 313; parrot, 408;
poetry, 411.
Margaret of France (sister of Francis
I.), on marriage, 49; relations with
her husband, 53; on doctors, 53,
58; influence of stars, 61; charity,
69; education, 96-98; authority
of husband, 123; widow, 131; re-
marriage, 134; defects of women,
137; remedy for materialism,
147-149; names and character,

170-172, 245, 418; her portraits,
170, 210; theory of love, 173-175;
motto, 176; platonic love, 189,
352, 353; compared with Anne of
France, 197; petit lever, 213; on
physical decay, 214; on wearing
black, 221; books, 263, 266, 267;
poetry, 274; drama, 282, 283; as
a talker, 285; her failure, 287, 475;
handwriting, 304; moral scheme,
334; toleration, 355, 475; relations
with Francis' mistresses, 364;
intellectual influence, 378-383;
Lovers, 384, 385; writings, 386,387;
vacillation, 418; religion, 436,
437, 442-445, 457, 470.

Margaret of France (wife of Henry
of Navarre), 486.
Margaret of Lorraine, 133.
Margaret of Savoy, 172, 481-486.
Marone, Andrea, 273.

Marot, Clement, 29, 165 n, 198 n,

212, 287, 315, 317, 353, 407, 457.
marriage customs, 37-42; presents,
72.

Mary of Cleves, 67.

Mary of England, 129, 217, 274.
Mary Stuart, 92, 376.
materialism, 456..

matrimony, test questions for, 33.
Maupas' sparrow, 407.

medicine, 54-58.

men of letters, 392.
Menot on death, 491.
Michelangelo,, his nephew's marri-
age, 35, 36; on love, 162; relations
with Vittoria Colonna, 162, 182,
183,, 213, 214, 395, 396; his Eve,
202; Last Judgment, 204, 324;
Virgin of Casa Buonarotti, 323;
Pieta, 323, 324; ideal of woman,
324; sonnets to courtesans, 359;
frescoes, 428.

Mirror of the Sinful Soul, 92, 386.
mistresses of Francis I., 363.

money, importance of, 117-121; wor-
ship of, 145, 146, 148, 149.

monks, 458-466.

Monna Lisa, Leonardo's, 191.
Montaigne on marriage, 46; on ca-
pricious treatment of women, 52;
on business, 65; on peasant nur-
ture, 73n; on college education,
76, 78; on women's 'policy,' 86;
on his daughter, 88; 95; on
moneyed wives, 121; on tears of

mourning, 130; his scepticism,
191, 479, 488-490; on coquetry,
362 n; on women's virtue, 420; on
faith, 425; on death, 491.
moon, woman compared to the, 423.
Morosina, Bembo's mistress, 366, 367.
Mortemart, ladies of, 286.
motherhood, 71-74, 77.
mother-in-law, the, 110.
mourning, 128.

Muguet, falcon of Louis XII., 250.
music, 83, 88, 270-278.
Mysteries, 282, 283.

mysticism, varieties of, 446-448, 465.
mythology, use of, 156, 455.

Naples, love of art at, 225.
Nature and man, 138, 139, 254, 449;
platonist attitude towards, 241-243,
253, 254.

naturalism, Ruskin's, 498, 499; con-
trasted with Bourget's, 499, 500.
needlework, 88.

Nifo, his changeableness, 152, 331;
catalogue of love-motives, 191, 192;
pen portrait of Jeanne of Aragon,
208, 209; anecdote of, 327, 328;
platonism, 332, 333; Phausina
Rhea, 348, 399; feminism, 369.
Nouvelles, 259, 266, 267.
nudities, 202-209.
nurses, 73.

Ochino, 339, 428, 469, 470.
Ockeghem, John of, 275.
Olympia Morata, 94 n, 428.
Ordelaffi, husband of Catherine
Sforza, 321.

Orleans, duchess of, her charity, 66;

love of music, 273.
Ovid, popularity of, 265, 266.

painting, 396, 377.
palinods, the, 446.

Papillon, Almanque, 149, 480.
patronage, 393-396, 398.
Paul II., 247.

Paul III., 432, 469.

Paul IV., the breeches-maker,' 204.
pen portraits, 208-210.

Peregrino, Caviceo's romance, 22.
Pernette du Guillet, 412.
Perugino, 375.

Petrarch, 234, 265, 272, 406, 487.
'Phaedra,' see Inghirami.
Phausina Rhea, 210, 348.