Part 121

Leo X (“My lord Cardinal”), 152, 313, 314, 317, 319, 320, 321, 322, 329, 331, 332, 333, 335, 336, 337, 340, 341, 342, 345, 352, 361, 362, 364, 365, 368, 369, 370, 373, 374, 380-1, 382, 411, 413

Leonardo da Vinci, 50, 336, 337, 341, 346, 350, 366, 381 his Codex Atlanticus, 360 his “Treatise on Painting,” 350

Leonico Tomeo, Niccolò, 145, 374

Letters: the true ornament of the mind, 56; disprized by the French at the beginning of the 16th century, 56; but esteemed by the youthful Francis (I), 56-7; and by captains of ancient times, 57-8; the true conservator of glory, 58; letters vs. arms, discussed, 60-2

Leuconia, 200, 393

Liberty, 259-61

Library of the Palace of Urbino, 9, 331

Library of the Spanish Academy at Madrid, 417

Libreria Salesiana, 421

Literary piracy: hasty publication of THE COURTIER arose from dread of, 1; frequency of, 320

Literary style, discussion of, 3-5, 38-54

Literary usage: how determined, 48; subject to change, 48-9

Livy (Titus Livius), 47, 326, 340, 358, 375, 391

Lombard, the author admits writing as a, 5

Lombards: addicted to the use of foreign words, 38; fond of fantastic dress, 104

Lombardy: 104; eulogy of noble ladies of, 204

Longinus, the lance of, 372

Longis, Jean, 419

Lor—, Jean, 419

Loreto, Our Lady of, 158, 382

Lorraine, Beatrice of, 394

Louis, St., 395

Louis IX of France, 395

Louis XI of France, 387, 395

Louis XII of France, 141, 202, 313, 318, 330, 332, 337, 341, 346, 359, 371, 376, 381, 395, 396, 400, 409

Louise of Savoy, 346

Love: the course to be pursued by women (married and unmarried) in love, 223-40; how men are to win women’s love, 229-30; how men are to declare their love, 231-2; openness in love, 233-4; how love is retained, 234-6; rivalry in love, 234-6; secrecy in love, 237-40; whether love be seemly in an old courtier, 286-7; beginning of Bembo’s discourse on Platonic love, 288; love defined as “a certain desire to enjoy beauty,” 288; defects of carnal love, 290; maturity less prone to carnal love, than youth, 291; true love of beauty is beneficent, 291; sensual love in a measure excusable in the young, 292; sensual love not excusable in those of mature years, 292, 297; spiritual love, 304-5; Bembo’s invocation to divine love, 305-7; instances in which the mysteries of divine love have been revealed to women, 308

Love talk, the course to be pursued by women in, 221-3