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Clement VII (Giulio de’ Medici), 314, 317, 319, 331, 335, 345, 369, 374

Cleobulus of Rhodes, 408

Cleopatra, 205, 401

Clerke, Bartholomew, 420, 421

Clermont, Isabelle de, Queen of Naples, 327, 397

Cleves, Anne of, 371

Cloquemin, Loys, 420

Cloven Tongues, 305

Clymene, 408

Colin, Jacques, 315-6, 419, 420

Colonna, Caterina, 394 Fabrizio, 319 Francesco, his Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, 405 Marcantonio, 140, 371 Pierantonio, 371 Vittoria, Marchioness of Pescara, 1, 319-20, 323, 324, 369, 371, 394

Columbus, Christopher, 396

Comino, Giuseppe, 421

Command, he is always obeyed who knows how to, 265

Commines, 395

Commonwealths, Duke Guidobaldo in the service of the Venetian and Florentine, 10

Como, the Bishop of, 366

Concealment: of art, 35; the courtier need not conceal his good deeds, 84

Conduct, Federico Fregoso propounds rules of, 83

Confession of ignorance, discussed, 116-7

Conquest, princes ought not to aim at, 266

Consalvo de Cordoba, 139, 141, 147, 204, 313, 327, 368-9, 371, 376, 400

Constable, T. and A., printers, 422

Conti, Bernardina, 371

Continence and temperance, contrasted and discussed, 257

Continence of Scipio, the story of the, 207-8

Contrast and balance, in art and character, 82-3

Conversation, to be varied to suit the company, 92

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