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Chaumont, the Grand Master de, 379-80

Cheirocrates, 411

Chess: 108-9; story of the monkey who played, 133-4

Chigi, Agostino, 383

Chigiana Library at Rome, 417

Chignones, Diego de, 139, 368

Chilon of Sparta, 408

Chios, a story of Philip V’s siege of, 200

Chiote women and their husbands, a story of, 200-1

Chiron, 64, 349

Choice of friends, 105-7

Christian Cicero, the, (Lactantius Firmianus), 392

Chrysoloras, 370

Cian, Vittorio, 334, 335, 349, 353, 367, 369, 373, 377, 378, 379, 380, 382, 383, 422

Ciarla, Magia, 342

Ciccarelli, Antonio, 363, 377, 420, 421

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 5, 44, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 129, 200, 339, 346, 362, 363, 379, 389, 392, 408

Cicero’s Brutus, 323 De Amicitia, 358 De Officiis, 402 De Oratore, 324, 344, 408 De Senectute, 397 Pro Archia, 34

Cicero, the Christian, (Lactantius Firmianus), 392

Ciminelli, Serafino,—see Serafino dall’Aquila

Cimon, 250, 407-8

Circe, 272, 409

Circumspection: necessary to the courtier, 59; even more necessary to the court lady, 176

Cithern: played by Socrates, 63; Achilles taught by Chiron to play upon the, 64

Civita Vecchia, 274, 410

Claudio, Scipio, 419

Claudius, the Emperor, 388

Clearchus, “tyrant of Pontus,” 264, 409

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