i III., 140;
Bruno's person and conversation, 141;
in England, _ib._;
works printed in London, 142;
descriptions of London life, _ib._;
opinion of Queen Elizabeth, 143;
lecturer at Oxford, 144;
address to the Vice-Chancellor, 146;
academical opposition, 147;
the Ash-Wednesday Supper, _ib._;
in the family of Castelnau, 148;
in Germany, 149;
Bruno's opinion of the Reformers, _ib._;
the _De Monade_ and _De Triplici Minimo_, 150;
Bruno in a monastery at Frankfort, 151;
invited to Venice, 153;
a guest of Mocenigo there, 154;
his occupations, 156;
denounced by Mocenigo and imprisoned by the Inquisition, 157;
the heads of the accusation, 157 _sqq._;
trial, 159;
recantation, 160;
estimate of Bruno's apology, 161;
his removal to and long imprisonment at Rome, 163;
his execution, 164;
evidence of his martyrdom, 164 _sqq._;
Schoppe's account, 165;
details of Bruno's treatment in Rome, 167;
the burning at the stake, 167 _sq._;
Bruno a martyr, 168;
contrast with Tasso, 169;
Bruno's mental attitude, 170 _sq._;
his championship of the Copernican system, 172;
his relation to modern science and philosophy, 173;
conception of the universe, 173 _sqq._;
his theology, 175;
the _Anima Mundi_, 177;
anticipations of modern thought, 178, 182;
his want of method, 180;
the treatise on the Seven Arts, 182;
Bruno's literary style, 182 _sqq._;
his death contrasted with that of Sarpi, 239 _n._
BRUSANTINI, Count Alessandro (Tassoni's 'Conte Culagna'), ii. 301, 306.
BUCKET, the Bolognese, ii. 305.
BUONCOMPAGNO, Giacomo, bastard, son of Gregory XIII., i. 150.
---Ugo, _see_ GREGORY XIII.
BUONVISI, Lucrezia, story of, i. 330;
intrigue with Arnolfini, 331;
murder of her husband, 332;
Lucrezia suspected of complicity, 334;
becomes a nun (Sister Umilia), _ib._;
the case against her, 338;
amours of inmates of her convent, 340;
Umilia's intrigue with Samminiati, _ib._;
discovery of their correspondence, 341;
trial and sentences of the nuns, 344;
Umilia's last days, 345.
---Lelio, assassination of, i. 332.
BURGUNDIAN diamond of Charles the Bold, the, i. 38.
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CALCAGNINI, Celio, letter of, on religious controversies, i. 74.
CALVAERT, Dionysius, a Flemish painter in Bologna, ii. 355.
CALVETTI, Olimpio (one of the assassins of Francesco Cenci), i. 350.
CALVIN, i. 73;
his relation to modern civilization, ii. 40
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