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Herodotus, 400

Herrick, Robert, 338

Hesiod, 49

Hiero of Syracuse, 191, 389-90

High standard, to be aimed at, even if a higher cannot be attained, 116

Hipparchus, 390

History, the courtier to be versed in, 59

Hobbie, Sir Thomas, 316

Hoby, Thomas, 316, 420, 421, 422 William, 316

Hohenstauffen rulers of Naples, 375

Homer, 41, 44, 49, 53, 57, 61, 62, 284, 315, 348, 391

Honesty and uprightness, requisite in the courtier, 56

Honour of women, discussion as to the regard to be shown to the, 162

Horace, 44, 340

Horse afraid of weapons, story about a, 138

Horse-breeding, 274

Horsemanship, the courtier to be an adept in, 30

Hortensius Hortalus, Quintus, 44, 339

Huguetan, Jean, 420

Humanities, the courtier to be versed in the, 59

Humour, beginning of the discussion on, 120

Hunchbacks, story of two, 151

Hungary, “the other queen of,”—see Aragon, Beatrice

Hunyadi, János, of Hungary, 397

Husbands and wives, ill treatment between, 193

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, 405

Iapetus, 408

Icarus, 342

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