CABINET OF BIOGRAPHY. (continued 11)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Vega, Lope de, compared with Cervantes, III. 189. His birth and parentage, 190. Early indications of talent, 191. Anecdote characteristic of his vivacious disposition, 192. His intimacy with the grand inquisitor; enters the university of Alcala, 193. Enters the service of the duke of Alva, 194. Writes the "Arcadia" at the request of the duke of Alva, 195. Style and story of the poem, 196. His marriage, 198. Engaged in a duel, which obliges him to leave Madrid, 199. Returns to Madrid, becomes a soldier, and joins the In vincible Armada, 200. Southey's translation of his sonnets, 202. Outline of his work entitled "Dorotea," 204. His animated description of the setting forth of the Armada, 208. Writes the "Beauty of Angelica" on the deck of the San Juan, 210. Story of the poem, 211. His extravagance and prodigality, 212. His advice to his son, 212. His domestic afflictions, 214. Leaves the gaieties of secular life, and prepares for the priesthood, 215. Visits Toledo, and takes orders; says his first mass in a Carmelite church, 216. Becomes a familiar of the Inquisition, 216. His rising character as an author, 217. His amiable character, 217. Rises higher and higher in the estimation of the public, 219. Writes a poem on the death of Mary queen of Scots, entitled "Corona Tragica," which he dedicates to the pope, 220. Exaggeration with regard to the number of verses written by him, 221. Anecdote of, 221. His epistles and other poems a picture of the tranquillity of his life as he advanced in age, 222. His amiable disposition and placid temper, 224. His last illness, 225. His death, 226. His person and character, 227. Review of his writings, 228. Analysis of the "Star of Seville," 233. Vella, Antonio de la, III. 140. Velser, Mark, II. 25. Vettori, Francesco, I. 292. Veyga, Luis de, III. 324. Viardôt, his exertions to discover the yet hidden circumstances of Cervantes' life, III. 121. Vicente, Gil, styled the Portuguese Plautus, III. 292. Style of his writings, 293. Villalobos, physician of Charles V., one of the earliest of the Spanish dramatists, III. 96. Villégas, Estévan Manuel de, named the Anacreon of Spain, III. 240. His birth and parentage, 240. His death, 240. His translation of Anacreon, 241. Translation of his original Anacreontics, 242. Villena, the Marquis of, so celebrated for his acquirements in natural and metaphysical knowledge, that he was looked on as a magician, also admired as a poet, III. 13. Virgil, Marcellus, I. 257. Visconti, Giovanni, I. 101. Visconti, Galeazzo, I. 103. Vitelli, Vitellozzo, I. 266. Viviani, II. 68. Voss, Gerard, II. 7.
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Wachenfels, II. 19. Wiffen, Mr., his translation of Garcilaso de la Vega's poems, III. 49. His translation of Luis de Leon's ode on the Moorish invasion, 79.
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Zach, baron, II. 22. Zeno, Apostolo, I. 168.; II. 192. Zenobio, I. 117. Zuniga, doña Elena de, her marriage with Garcilaso de la Vega, III. 39.