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Tacitus, Cornelius, 52, 53, 346, 368

Taft, taftah, taffety, 364

Tarpeia, 392

Tarquinius Priscus, 190, 389

Tasso, the poet, 333 Girolamo, a printer, 421

Tatius, Titus, 198, 199, 392

Teeth, the beauty of, 55

Temperament of men and women discussed, 186-7

Temperance and continence, contrasted and discussed, 257

Tenda, Beatrice di, 355

Tennis: a pastime appropriate to the courtier, 31; to be practised only as a diversion, 86

Tennyson’s “Cup,” Castiglione’s version of the story on which was founded, 194-5, 390

Teramo, the Bishop of,—see Porcaro, Camillo

Terpandro, Antonio Maria, 12, 334

Thales of Miletus, 408

Themistocles, 64, 76, 275, 349

Themistus of Syracuse, 389

Theodatus, 393

Theodolinda, Queen of the Lombards, 202, 393

Theodora, wife of the Emperor Theophilus, 202, 393 wife of the Emperor Justinian, 393

Theodoric the Great, 393

Theophilus, the Emperor, 393

Theophrastus, 5, 323

Theseus, 106, 275, 358, 411

Thetis, 387

Tiber, first Trojan landing at the mouth of the, 198

Ticknor, the historian of Spanish literature, 315

Time, the true test of literary and other excellence, 6

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