Part 140

Spain, 1, 204, 207, 315

Spaniards: martial exercises excelled in by, 31; affirmed by Calmeta to be the masters of courtiership, 97-8; discussion whether they are presumptuous, 98; said to excel in chess, 109; their grave manners, 114-5

Spanish fashion of dress: affected by some, 102; sobriety of, 103

Spartan women, bravery of, 201

Speaking and writing, to be governed by essentially the same rules, 40

Sprezzatura (nonchalance), 35, 338

Squarcione, Francesco, 341

Stadia, computation of the size of Hercules’s body based upon a comparison of the different, 171

Stagira, 285, 414

Stasicrates, 411

Statira of Pontus, 389

Stature, the courtier to be of moderate, 29

Stazioni, 136, 366

Stephen, St., 308

Stesichorus, 294, 415

Stilico, 313

Stoic philosophers, 82

Strascino (Niccolò Campani da Siena), 128, 362

Strozzi, Palla degli, 140, 370

Suetonius, 360

Sulla, Lucius Cornelius, 58, 347

Sulpicius Rufus, Publius, 51, 344

Sumptuary regulations, commended, 278

Swimming, an accomplishment proper for the courtier, 31

Symonds, John Addington, 315, 327, 339, 345, 359, 360, 369, 370, 409, 412

Synattus, 194, 195

Synesius, 357

“T-A” (a printer’s initials), 419