Book 3 — INDEX
George Herbert Ely translation
Accolti, Bernardo, itinerant singer, 273.
age of marriage, 27, 28, 98.
Agrippa, Cornelius, his view of marriage, 21;
book on the Pre-eminence of the Female Sex, 400;
lectures on Plato, 402.
Alexander VI., pope, on Urbino marriage, 52;
his hunting, 247;
on monks, 463.
Alfonso of Aragon’s wedding, 40.
Alfonso of Naples’ dinners, 231.
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 of Brittany, 145, 375.
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, 131.
Anne of Vivonne, 385.
architecture, domestic, 224.
Aretino, on tutors, 79, 80;
his Marescalco, 80, 281;
on duchess of Urbino, 351;
courtesans, 201, 358, 361;
on nudities, 204;
his methods, 370;
relations with Vittoria Colonna, 390, 391;
correspondence, 394, 395.
art, 377, 380.
Asolani, Bembo’s, 156, 432.
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;
Michelangelo’s, 161;
distrusted, 196;
preservation of, 215.
Bembo, on Latin for girls, 96;
his Asolani, 156, 432;
on love, 159-161;
conversation, 294, 295;
handwriting, 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;
decoration 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 contrasted 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’Institution du prince, 250, 251;
on religion, 454.
burial customs, 129.
Burye, character in Heptameron, 385.
Calvin on women, 84, 467;
on divorce, 339;
character of Reformation, 467.
Calvinists, objection to fine weddings, 37;
to baths, 255, 256.
Cardan on marriage, 32;
on gout, 230;
on talk, 285;
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;
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;
relation 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.
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;
handwriting, 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;
relations 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.
dowries, 117-119.
‘dragons,’ 330, 331.
drama, 278-283.
dress, 216-223.
drinking, 229, 230.
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 maternity, 48;
education, 82, 97;
husbands, 116;
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 Paul, 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 character 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;
education, 94-96;
drama, 278-281;
conversation, 285-296;
letters, 306;
monks, 465.
Jeanne of Aragon, 312, 407.
Jews, hatred of, 478.
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.
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 education, 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;
remarriage, 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.
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.
Ménot on death, 491.
Michelangelo, his nephew’s marriage, 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;
Pietà, 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;
worship of, 145, 146, 148, 149.
monks, 458-466.
Monna Lisa, Leonardo’s, 191.
Montaigne on marriage, 46;
on capricious treatment of women, 52;
on business, 65;
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 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;
contrasted 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.
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.
Philippa of Gueldres, 133.
philosophy, love of, 401, 402.
physical exercise, 244.
Pia, Emilia, 288, 305.
Piccoli, Gabriele, 322.
Pico della Mirandola, 154.
pilgrimages, 240.
Pio, Alberto, 277, 454, 462.
plate, family, 229.
Plato, theory of love, 151-153;
vogue of, 154, 402, 448;
theory of beauty, 158, 161;
Nature, 241;
relation to Christianity, 425;
negative results of doctrine, 494-496.
platonic love, 213, 339-344, 348.
platonism, 154, 157, 164, 177-193, 197, 260, 297, 334, 336;
causes of its failure, 487, 488, 495-498.
Pléiade, the, 172, 478-481.
poetry, 262, 271, 404-408;
and hunting, 248-250.
Poggio, his facetiae, 100, 154;
on Baden, 259, 260.
Poirier, son-in-law of Monsieur, 117.
Poitiers, three maids of, 102;
ladies of, 288.
Pole, Cardinal, 429.
Politian, 154, 265, 409.
polygamy, 339.
Pomponius Laetus, 154, 278.
Pontanus, 88, 104, 144, 240.
poodles, 244, 407, 408.
portraits of ladies as Venus, 205-207.
Postel, Guillaume, 471, 472.
priesthood of women, 428.
princesses’ love, 187, 188.
publicity, writers’ objection to, 376.
Puritans and music, 277.
puys d’amour, 419.
Rabelais, pedigrees, 145;
on colours, 221;
antiplatonist, 325, 336;
his abbey of Thelema, 465;
his mysticism, 465.
Raphael on marriage, 36, 37;
Vision of a Knight, 330;
anecdote of, 431.
Raulin, Jean, his sermon, 108.
reading, 88, 262.
religion and aesthetics, 423, 424;
relations to philosophy and Plato, 425, 426, 479 ff.
Renée of France, on influence of stars, 61;
letters, 308;
career and character, 314-316, 456.
Romances, 100, 268-270.
Roman aristocracy, 143;
idea of beauty, 143;
liberalism, 430-434.
Ronsard, 60, 198, 215, 235, 343, 365, 376, 477, 478.
Rosera, Isabella, 409.
Ruskin, 111;
on nature, 137, 138;
his naturalism compared with Bourget’s, 498-500.
Sadoleto, 429.
‘Saffredent’ (character in Heptameron), 385.
Saint-Gelais, Melin de, 235, 327, 431.
Saint-Gelais, Octovien de, 167, 266, 300, 326.
Saint-Simon on Mortemart ladies, 286.
Salel, Hugues, 382.
Savonarola, 163, 164, 278, 297, 322, 459.
Scaldasole, Marchesa, 184.
scepticism, 479.
Semblançay, 141.
serving maids, 106, 112.
Sforza, Ascanio, 248, 249.
Sforza, Bianca, 42, 43.
Sforza, Catherine, widowhood, 29;
alchemy, 61, 62;
character and career, 245, 246, 320-322.
Ship of Fools, 416.
slave girls as concubines, 113.
small families, 71.
sonnet, popularity of, 405.
Spagnuoli, Battista, on marriage, 21;
on baths, 258;
on monks, 460.
Spain, education of girls in, 91-94;
idea of charm, 198.
spas, 257, 258.
Spinola, Thomasina, 190.
stick, the, 110, 111.
‘stork-love,’ 355, 441.
story-telling, 299.
subsidiary marriage, 339.
Sygea, Loysa, 409.
table-talk, 231, 232.
Theresa, St., 92, 197.
Tiraqueau, 27, 35.
titles, love of, 143.
topics of conversation, 294.
tournaments, 245, 246.
Triboulet, 34.
Tullia d’Aragona, her book on the Infinity of Perfect Love, 164;
her influence, 357, 360;
a poetess, 413.
tutors, 78-81.
Urbino, duke of, 52, 145, 293;
Valois, court of, 369, 486.
Vegio on tutors, 79.
Venice, marriages at, 41;
education at, 96;
idea of charm, 198;
music at, 277;
courtesans at, 361.
Venus, passion for painting, 201-205.
Vérard, publisher, 392.
Vergerio, 451, 452, 457, 458.
Vert-vert, 408.
Villamarina, Isabella, anecdote of, 320.
Virgil, unpopularity of, 265.
virtue represented in painting as repellent, 329, 330.
Vittoria Colonna, see Colonna.
Vivès, on education of girls, 92, 98, 100;
on husbands, 111;
on dancing and kissing, 233, 234.
vocal music, 270-273.
Voiture, 187.
volta, the, 236, 237.
war, 317-319.
wealth, worship of, 222, 236.
widows, 128-134.
witchcraft, 426, 427.
women as professional writers, 409, 410.
Zwingle on education, 82.
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