se 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 _Floridante_, 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