Part 120

Lady at church and the beggar, story of the, 125

Lælius, Caius (Sapiens), 51, 106, 344, 358

Laïs, 402

Landi, Agostino, 334 Caterina, 334 Count Marcantonio, 334

Landriano, Gerardo, Bishop of Como, 366

Language, in what consists the excellence of, 53

Languages, the courtier ought to know many, 115

Laocoön, the, 349

Lapi, Checca, 384

Lascaris, Constantine, 330, 397

Lasso, Pedro, 420

Latin: the source of Italian, 43; the courtier to be conversant with, 59; Castiglione prefers that his son should devote more attention to Greek than to, 347

Latinistic forms of several Italian words advocated, 48, 54, 340

Latino Giovenale de’ Manetti, 151, 379

Latrin tongue, 136

Lattanzio da Bergamo, 376

Laughter: peculiar to man, 123; incongruity affirmed to be its source, 124

Laura, 220, 404-5

Laure de Noves, 405

Lavinello, 415

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

Law, princes’ need to show respect for, 271

Leæna, 192, 390

Leaping, an accomplishment proper for the courtier, 31

Leghorn, 196

Lei, Bernardino, Bishop of Cagli, 366

Lemonnier, Felice, 421

Lenzuoli, Giuffredo (or Alfonso), 328 Roderigo,—see Alexander VI