Part 93

Æsop, 78, 356, 357

Affectation: to be avoided, 35, 83; instances of: in oratory, 35; in dancing, 36; in attire, 36; in riding, 37; in boasting, 37; in music, 37; in painting, 37; in speech, 38; in preferring to practise that in which one does not most excel, 117

“Aforesaid,” story about a Sienese who mistook Aforesaid for a name, 130

Age, the courtier’s functions affected by his, 281, 283-4

Agesilaus, 250, 408

Agilulph, Duke of Turin, 393

Agnello, Antonio, 126, 361-2 Giulio, 362

Agone, the Piazza d’, 249, 407

Aguilar, the Marquess of, 384

Alamanni, 149-50

Albert III, Duke of Bavaria, 374

Alberti, Giovanni, 421

Albizzi, 370

Albret, Charlotte d’, 377

Alcibiades, 57, 89, 356, 402

Aldana, Captain, 152, 379

Aldine Press, 315, 419

Aldus (Teobaldo Manucci), 315, 329, 332, 394, 405

Alessandrina Library at Rome, 417

Alexander the Great, 28, 34, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 68, 70, 103, 109, 142, 146, 205, 207, 210, 212, 274, 275, 284, 285, 338, 348, 351, 358, 401, 411, 414

Alexander III, 364

Alexander VI (Roderigo Lenzuoli Borgia), 10, 126, 147, 216, 318, 328, 336, 340, 361, 365, 367, 369, 371, 372, 375, 377, 380, 382, 395, 397, 400

Alexander Jannæus, King of the Jews, 191, 389

Alexandra, Queen of the Jews, 191, 389

Alexandria in Egypt, founded by Alexander the Great, 274, 411

Alexandria, the Bishop of, (Giannantonio di Sangiorgio), 142, 372

Alexandrian Cardinal, the, (Giovanni Antonio di Sangiorgio), 142, 372

Alfonso I of Naples, 146, 153, 156, 375-6