Part 108

Dennistoun’s “Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino,” 335, 337, 377, 397

Derketo, a Syrian goddess, 401

Deserve, the best way to win princes’ favour is to deserve it, 96

Devices (imprese), 12, 330

Diacceto, Francesco Cattani da, 51, 345-6

Diacceto’s Tre Libri d’Amore, 346

Diana, 194

Digressions from the main subject of the work: on literary style, 38-54; on pleasantries and witticism, 120-162; on the attributes of the perfect court lady, 175-228; on Platonic love, 288-307

Dinocrates, 411

Dio of Syracuse, 285, 414-5

Diocletian, the Emperor, 404

Diogenes Laertius, 348

Diomed, 275, 411

Dionysius the Elder of Syracuse, 348, 415

Dionysius the Younger of Syracuse, 285, 415

Diotima, 197, 308, 391

Disguises, fancy dress, etc., 87-8

Disparagement, to be avoided, 115-6

Divorce, impliedly favoured, 224

Djem Othman, 141, 371-2

Dnieper, comic story of words frozen in crossing the, 132-3

Dolce, Ludovico, 420

Dolet, Estienne, 419

Domenico, a printer at Venice, 420

Donatello, 341

Donato, Geronimo, 136, 365-6

Don Carlos, Prince of Spain, (afterwards Charles V of Spain), 276, and see Charles V of Spain

Donkey, story of peasant who had lost his, 128-9