city of, in the attempts on
Sarpi's life, ii. 214.

SETTLEMENT of Italy effected by Charles V. and Clement VII.,
net results of, i. 45 _sqq._

'SEVEN Liberal Arts, On the,' a lost treatise by Giordano
Bruno, ii. 156, 182.

SFORZA, Francesco Maria, his relations with Charles V., i. 28.

---Lodovico (Il Moro, ruler of Milan), invites Charles VIII.
into Italy, i. 8.

SICILY, separated from Naples, i. 4.

SIENA, republic of, subdued by Florence, i. 47.

'SIGNS of the Times, The,' a lost work by Giordano Bruno, ii. 136.

SIGONIUS: his _History of Bologna_ blocked by the Index, i. 207.

SIMONETA, Cardinal, legate at Trent, i. 118, 121.

SIXTUS V., Pope:
short-sighted hoarding of treasure by, i. 153;
his enactments against brigandage, 152;
accumulation of Papal revenues, _ib._;
public works, 153;
animosity against pagan art, _ib._;
works on and about S. Peter's, 154;
methods of increasing revenue, 155;
nepotism, 157;
development of the Papacy in his reign, 158;
his death predicted by Bellarmino, 298;
his behavior after the murder of his nephew (Felice Peretti), 362.

SODERINI, Alessandro, assassinated together with his nephew
Lorenzino de'Medici, i. 398.

SOLIMAN, Paul IV.'s negotiations with, i. 103.

SOMASCAN Fathers, Congregation of the, i. 79.

S. ONOFRIO, Tasso's death at, ii. 78;
the mask of his face at, 116.

SORANZO, on the character of Pius IV., i. 111 _n._;
on Carlo Borromeo, 116 _n._;
on the changes in Roman society in 1565, 143.

'SPACCIO della Bestia Trionfante, Lo,' Giordano Bruno's,
ii. 132 _n._, 140, 165, 183 _sq._

SPADA, Lionello, Bolognese painter, ii. 364.

SPAIN:
its position in Italy after the battle of Pavia, i. 14.

SPANIARDS of the sixteenth century, character of, i. 59.

SPERONI, Sperone:
his criticism of Tasso's _Gerusalemme_, ii. 44;
a friend of Chiabrera, 287.

SPHERE, the, Giordano Bruno's doctrine of, ii. 135, 144 _sq._

STENDHAL, De (Henri Beyle):
his _Chroniques et Nouvelles_ cited:
on the Cenci, i. 351 _sq._;
the Duchess of Palliano, 373.

STERILITY of Protestantism, ii. 401.

STROZZI, Filippo, i. 46.

---Piero, i. 47.

T

TASSO, Bernardo (father of Torquato), i. 38;
his birth and parentage, ii. 5;
the _Amadigi_, 7, 11, 18, 35;
his youth and marriage, 7;
misfortunes, _ib._;
exile and poverty, 8;
death of his wife, 9;
his death, 10, 35;
his character, _ib._;
his _Flori