Part 124

Mass, jest about speed in saying, 152-3

Mass-book, story of the, 137-8

Massilia, custom of providing means of self-destruction at, 192, 390

Massimo, Roberto, da Bari,—see Roberto da Bari

Massot, Estienne, 421

Master Serafino, 150

Matilda, the Countess, 202, 393-4

Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, 204, 336, 365, 397-8, 399

Mausolus, King of Caria, 401

Maximilian I, Emperor of Germany, 143, 202, 359, 367, 371, 387, 395, 396, 397, 400, 413

Mayer, Johann, 421

Mazzoleni, 421

Mazzuchelli, Count Giammaria, Life of Castiglione, 417

Medici, Caterina de’, 346 Cosimo de’, Pater Patriæ, 140, 151, 345, 362, 370, 376, 378, 381 Giovanni de’, (Cosimo’s father), 370 Giovanni de’, "delle Bande Nere," 337 Giovanni de’, "My lord Cardinal,"—see Leo X Giuliano de’, (brother of Lorenzo the Magnificent), 345, 378 Giuliano de’, “My lord Magnifico,” 2, 12, 37, 42, 56, 64, 71, 89-90, 102, 132, 142, 144, 168, 169, 170, 172, 174-238, 244, 256, 276, 280, 281, 308, 320-1, 331, 339, 341, 342, 343, 346, 349, 380, 390, 407, 414 Giulio de’,—see Clement VII Grasso de’, 62, 348 Ippolito de’, 320, 329 Lorenzo de’, Duke of Urbino, 319, 321, 330, 352 Lorenzo de’, the Magnificent, 51, 145, 320, 321, 335, 343, 345, 359, 378, 380 Pietro de’, 345

Meliolo, Bartolommeo, 384 Ludovico, 162, 384

Men and women, beginning of the discussion on the comparative excellence of, 182

Menerola, Teodora, 328

Mercury, 252

Merula, Giorgio, 313

Messina, the Prior of, (Don Pedro de Cuña), 150-1, 378

Metastasio, P., 421

Metrodorus, 69, 351

Micard, Cl., 420

Michael, apparently a tutor to Castiglione’s son, 347

Michelangelo Buonarroti, 2, 50, 67, 313, 320, 321, 328, 329, 343, 350, 410

Michelet on Louis XII of France, 371

Milan, 153 the Dukes of,—see Sforza and Visconti

Miletus, the Bishop of,—see Pavia, the Cardinal of