Part 118

Ignorance: as to confessing, 116-7; one of the gravest faults of princes, 247; the root of evil, 254-6

Iliad, the, kept by Alexander the Great at his bedside, 57

Imitation, in literary style: 41; more necessary for the moderns than for the ancients, 49

Imprese (devices), 12, 330

Improbabilities, to be avoided in conversation, 119

Incongruity, the source of laughter, 124

Incontinence in men, no more excusable than unchastity in women, 206

India, 285

Inghirami, Paolo, 367 Tommaso, (“Fedra”), 138, 367, 375

Innocent VIII, 341, 371, 372

Innuendo, instances of witty, 145-7

Innys, William, 421

Ippolito d’Este,—see Este

Isabella del Balzo, Queen of Naples, 205, 397, 399-400

Isabella the Catholic: referred to as “the queen,” 150; mentioned, 156, 202-4, 219, 377, 378, 384, 396-7, 412, 413

Isaia di Pippo of Pisa, 333

Ischia, the island of, 319

Ismail Sufi I of Persia, 173, 387-8

Isocrates, 51, 344, 409

Isola Ferma, 222, 405

Italian language, derived from the Latin, 43

Italians: martial exercises in which they excelled, 30; military decadence of, 58-9, 347; lamentable lack of any style of dress peculiar to, 103; become a prey to other nations, 103, 347

Italy, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 40, 43, 44, 46, 103, 114, 171, 198, 202, 274, 347

James I of England, 413

James IV of Scotland, 413

Janus, 407

Japan, THE COURTIER said to have been carried to, 324

J. C. L. L. J., an anonymous German translator of THE COURTIER, 316, 421