arston, cited, 473, 475.
Massa, B. da, 611.
Masuccio quoted, 458, 486.
Matarazzo, works, 292; quoted, 583.
Medici, their policy, 87, 90, 128, 155, 228, 230;
expulsion, 222;
connection with papacy, 404;
services to literature, 600.
Alessandro, 298;
Cosimo, 300, 492;
Lorenzo, 504, 628;
death, 523;
Piero, 558.
Michelet quoted, 15, 585.
Middle Age: mental condition, 6, 13;
inaccessibility to mental ideas, 7;
political character, 8;
art, 17;
scholarship, 20.
Milan, 58; Visconti and Sforza, 154.
Milman quoted, 530.
Milton, 454.
Mirandola, 171, 456, 520;
quoted, 401, 511.
Monaldeschi, L. B., 252.
Montferrat, 146.
Montone, B. da, 123, 159.
Morals (see Italy, society; Papacy, court; Virtu;) in Cellini's memoirs,
325;
sexual immorality,474;
tyrannicide defended, 468.
Muentz, E., cited, 384.
Muzio quoted, 174.

N

Naples (see Italy), attraction for foreigners, 566;
claims of house
of Anjou, 539;
flight of king, 574.
Nardi, 278, 280, 290;
works, 291;
quoted, 292, 511, 534, 592.
Nerli, 278, 290; works, 293 seq.;
quoted, 328.
Nicholas V., 378.
Normans In Italy, 58.

O

Olgiati, 166.
Orsini, 375.
Otho 1., 52.

P

Pamponazzo, 456.
Pandolfini, 239;
works, 241.
Papacy (see Catholic Church), "the ghost of the Roman empire," 6;
church and state, 8;
Charles the Great, 51;
imperial nominees, 59;
change in mode of election, 60;
effect of crushing the Hohenstauffen, 101;
nepotism, 114;
authority in 14th century, 371, 375;
secularization, 371, 375;
temporal power, 376; its consolidation, 378;
its extent, 434;
persecution, 402;
of Platonists, 417;
its effect, 418;
plan to transform Papacy to kingdom, 392;
sale of pardons, 404, 439;
no horror felt at election of Alexander VI., 410;
Turks invited to Italy, 415, 551;
censure of press, 416:
alliance with France, 427, 566;
political crimes of Alexander VI., 428;
tide turns with Julius II., 433;
reforms of Adrian VI., 441;
moral advantage of sack of Rome, 445.
Court, 372;
its scandalous history, 390, 403, 411, 414, 420, 424, 439, 457;
extravagance, 390, 436, 437;
extortion, 437;
monopolies, 394;
nepotism, 419, 438;
simony, 394, 405, 414;
art patronage, 384, 401, 433, 436.
Paterini, 9.
Paul II., 383.
Pazzi conspiracy, 396.
Perrotti quoted, 179.
Perugia, 612.
Pescara, marquis of, 634.
Petrarch, 11, 20; quoted, 250.