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Greece, 65, 192, 219

Greek: Hannibal said to have written in, 58; the courtier to be conversant with, 59; Castiglione prefers that his son should devote less attention to Latin than to, 347

Greek dialects, discussion of, 47

Gregory, St., 393

Grove’s Dictionary of Music, 359

Guicciardini, 409

Hadrian’s mausoleum, afterwards the Castle of St. Angelo, 367

Handmaidens, the Festival of the, 199-200, 392

Hands, the beauty of, 55

Hanging, the method by which a Spanish cavalier hoped to escape, 148-9

Hannibal, 58, 201, 274, 347, 376, 392, 408

Harmodius, 390

Harmonia, 191, 389-90

Harsy, Denys de, 419

Hasdrubal, 191, 389

Helen of Troy, 351, 387, 415

Henry, Prince of Wales,—see Henry VIII of England

Henry IV of England, 413

Henry V of England, 412-3

Henry VII of England, 313, 327, 412-3

Henry VIII of England, 276, 332, 348, 371, 412

Hera, 387

Heraclea, 390

Hercules, 171, 275, 305, 408, 411, 412

Hermes, 339, 391

Hermit, Lavinello’s, a character in Bembo’s Gli Asolani, 288, 415

Hernand, Pietro, 368

Hernand y Aguilar, Gonzalvo,—see Consalvo de Cordoba

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