Part 144

Valerius Maximus’s “Memorable Doings and Sayings,” 390, 401

Vanozza, Rosa, 377

Varano, Costanza da, 394

Varchi, 348

Variety of occupations, inculcated, 31

Varlungo, the priest of, (a character in Boccaccio), 127

Varro, Marcus Terentius, 54, 346

Vasari, Giorgio, 341, 343, 350

Vatican Library at Rome, 417

Vaulting on horseback, proper for the courtier, 31

Venery, an appropriate pastime for the courtier, 31

Venetians: their manner of riding ridiculed, 37, 130; addicted to the wearing of puffed sleeves, 104

Venice, 131, 147

Venus, 309

Venus Armata, 199, 392

Venus Calva, 199, 392

Vernacular (i.e., Italian), the courtier to be proficient in the use of the, 59

Vernia, Paolo Niccolò,—see Nicoletto

Verocchio, 341

Verulam, Lord, (Francis Bacon), 316

Vesme, Count Carlo Baudi di, 357, 417, 421

Vespasiano, 326

Vesta, 393

Vestal Virgins, 201

Vinci, Leonardo da,—see Leonardo da Vinci

Viol, 88-9, 356

Viotti, Antonio di, 419

Virgil, 41, 44, 47, 49, 52, 53, 339, 359