dante_, 35.

---Christoforo (cousin of Torquato), ii. 14.

---Torquato:
his relation to his epoch, ii. 2;
to the influences of Italian decadence, 4;
his father's position, 6;
Torquato's birth, 7;
the death of his mother, 9, 15;
what Tasso inherited from his father, 11;
Bernardo's treatment of his son, _ib._;
Tasso's precocity as a child, 12;
his early teachers, _ib._;
pious ecstasy in his ninth year, 13;
with his father in Rome, 14;
his first extant letter, 15;
his education, 16;
with his father at the Court of Urbino, 17;
mode of life here, 18;
acquires familiarity with Virgil, 19;
studies and annotates the _Divina Commedia_, _ib._;
metaphysical studies and religious doubts, 20;
reaction, _ib._;
the appearance of the _Rinaldo_, 21;
leaves Padua for Bologna, _ib._;
Dialogues on the Art of Poetry, 22, 24, 26;
flight to Modena, 22;
speculations upon Poetry, 23;
Tasso's theory of the Epic, 24;
he joins the Academy 'Gli Eterei' at Padua, as 'Il Pentito,' 26;
enters the service of Luigi d'Este, 27;
life at the Court of Ferrara, 28;
Tasso's love-affairs, 31;
the problem of his relations with Leonora and Lucrezia
d'Este, 32 _sqq._, 48, 51;
quarrel with Pigna, 34;
his want of tact, _ib._;
edits his _Floridante_, 35;
visit to Paris, _ib._;
the _Gottifredo_ (_Gerusalemme Liberata_), 35, 38, 42, 48, 50;
his instructions to Rondinelli, _ib._;
life at the Court of Charles IX., 36;
rupture with Luigi d'Este, 38;
enters the service of Alfonso, Duke of Ferrara, _ib._;
renewed relations with Leonora, _ib._;
production and success of _Aminta_, 39;
relations with Lucrezia d'Este (Duchess of Urbino), _ib._;
his letters to Leonora, 41;
his triumphant career, _ib._;
submits the _Gerusalemme_ to seven censors, 43;
their criticisms, _ib._;
literary annoyances, 44;
discontent with Ferrara, 45;
Tasso's sense of his importance, _ib._;
the beginning of his ruin, 46;
he courts the Medici, 47;
action of his enemies at Ferrara, 48;
doubts as to his sanity, 49;
his dread of the Inquisition, _ib._;
persecution by the courtiers, 50;
revelation of his love affairs by Maddalo de'Frecci, 51;
Tasso's fear of being poisoned, _ib._;
outbreak of mental malady, 52;
temporary imprisonment, _ib._;
estimate of the hypothesis that Tasso feigned madness, 53;
his escape from the Convent of S. Francis, 54;
with his