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Œta, Mount, 305, 415

Oglio, story of the peasant girl who drowned herself in the, 214-5

Old age: its tendency to laud the past and to decry the present, 75-9; affectations of, 90; characteristics peculiar to, 91

Old fashions, instances of, in manners and attire, 79

Olschki, Leo, 417

Olympia, 387

Olympian Jove, 171

Olympic games, 171

Oratory: affectation in, 35; the variety of, 50-1; the courtier to be versed in, 59

Orestes, 106, 358

Oriental courts, manners of, 173

Orlando, a character of mediæval romance, 365

Orléans, Duke Charles d’, 371

Orléans, the Duke of,—see Louis XII

Orpheus, 167, 184, 349, 384, 388

Orsini, Clarice, 320, 380 Giangiordano, 404

Ortona, Morello da,—see Morello

Orvieto, Nicoletto da, 142, 373

Oscan language, 49, 340

Othman, Djem,—see Djem Othman

Our Lady of Loreto, 158, 382

Ovid, 237, 315, 390

Ovid’s Ars Amandi, 352, 366, 404, 405

Oyselet, Georges l’, 420

Padovano, Giovanni, 419

Padua, 116, 136, 161 the (Arch-) Bishop of, 136, 366

Paduan flavour in Livy’s style, 47

Pæonius’s “Victory,” 387

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