Part 106

Conversion of the heathen, 275-6

Cooke, Sir Anthony, 316

Cordoba, Consalvo de,—see Consalvo Francisco Fernandez de,—see Fernandez

Corinna, 197, 391

Corio, Lodovico, 324, 422

Cornelia, 190, 344, 389

Corrozet, Gelles, 419

Corsiniana Library at Rome,

Corvinus, Matthias,—see Matthias Corvinus

Coscia, Andrea, 152, 380

Costume appropriate to the courtier, 102-4

Cotta, Caius Aurelius, 51, 344

Courage requisite in the courtier, 25

Court Lady, the: beginning of the discussion on, 173; must be womanly, 175; her need of beauty, 176; must be affable, vivacious, witty, not too prudish, 176; not too familiar, not a scandal-monger, tactful in conversation, 177-8; not addicted to over-rugged exercises, or too ready to dance or sing, 179; her dress, 179-80; must be no less well informed than the courtier, and understand even those exercises that she does not practise; she must also be accomplished in literature, music, painting and dancing, 180; Pallavicino objects to such multiplicity of acquirement, 181-2

COURTIER, THE BOOK OF THE. reasons for writing, 1, 7; reasons for hasty publication of, 1; “a picture of the court of Urbino,” 2; excuse for not writing in the Tuscan dialect, 3-5; purports to record actual dialogues, 8; when written, 319

Courtiers’ duty to entice their prince towards virtue, 250-1

Courtiership: the subject of the book, 7; beginning of the discussion concerning the perfection of, 19; beginning of the discussion concerning the proper aims of, 246; explanation of the word, 325

Crassus, Lucius Licinius, the orator, 44, 49, 51, 339, 344 Marcus Licinius, the triumvir, 347

Crassus Mucianus, Publius Licinius, 101, 358

Crato, Johannes, 420

Creede, T., 421

Crema, Margarita, 362

Cretans, cultivators of music, 64

Crimson velvet, jest about a captain who celebrated his infrequent victories by wearing, 152

Crivello, Biagino, 153, 381

Crotona, the five beautiful maidens of, 70, 351

Cuña, Don Pedro de,—see Messina, the Prior of

Cuppis (or Coppi) da Montefolco, Bernardo de, 404 Lucrezia de, 404