transferred to Bologna, 100;
Paul IV.'s measures of ecclesiastical reform, 107;
the Council's decrees actually settled in the four Courts, 112, 119;
its organization by Pius IV., 118 _sqq._;
inauspicious commencement, 119;
the privileges of the Papal legates, 120;
daily post of couriers to the Vatican, 121;
arts of the Roman Curia, 122;
Spanish, French, Imperial Opposition, 123;
clerical celibacy and Communion under both forms, _ib._;
packing the Council with Italian bishops, 125;
the interests of the Gallican Church, 126;
interference of the Emperor Ferdinand, _ib._;
confusion in the Council, 126 _n._;
envoys to France and the Emperor, 127;
cajoleries and menaces, 129;
action of the Court of Spain, 130;
firmness of the Spanish bishops, 130 _n._;
Papal Supremacy decreed, 131;
reservation in the Papal Bull of ratification, 131 _and note_;
Tridentine Profession of Faith (Creed of Pius V.), 148.

TUSCANY, creation of the Grand Duchy of, i. 47.

TWO SICILIES, the kingdom of the, i. 45.

'TYRANNY of the kiss,' the, exemplified in the _Rinaldo_, ii. 90;
in the _Pastor Fido_, 255;
in the _Adone_, 272.

U

UNIVERSAL Monarchy, end of the belief in, i. 34.

UNIVERSE, Bruno's conception of the, ii. 173 _sqq._

UNIVERSITIES, Italian, i. 51.

'UNTORI, La Peste degli,' i. 421;
trial of the _Untoti_, 421.

URBAN VIII., fantastic attempt made against the life of, i. 425 _sq._

URBINO, the Court of, life at, ii. 17 _sq._

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VALDES, Juan:
his work _On the Benefits of Christ's Death_, i. 76.

VALORI, Baccio, i. 33.

VASTO, Marquis of, i. 25.

VENETIAN ambassadors' despatches cited:
on the manners of the Roman Court in 1565, i. 142, 147;
the expulsion of prostitutes from Rome, 146.

VENICE, the Republic of, its possessions in the fifteenth century, i. 9;
relations with Spain in 1530, 45;
rise of a contempt for commerce in, 49;
the constitution of its Holy Office, 190;
Concordat with Clement VIII., 193;
Tasso at, ii. 19 _sq._;
its condition in Sarpi's youth, 185;
political indifference of its aristocracy, 186;
put under interdict by Paul V., 198.

VENIERO, Maffeo, on Tasso's mental malady, ii. 52, 63.

VERONA, Peter of (Peter Martyr), Italian Dominican Saint
of the Inquisition, i. 161.

VERVINS, the Treaty of, i. 48, 56.

VETTORI, Francesco, i. 33.

VIRGIL, Tasso's admiration of, ii. 25;
translations and adaptations from, 98