Part 96

Artemisia, 205, 400-1

Arthur Tudor, son of Henry VII of England, 412

Artifice, discussion on, 118

Artifice in love, deprecated, 165-6

Ascension, Venetian festival of the, 131, 364

Ascham, Roger, 316

Asia, 101, 275

Asinus Domino Blandiens, one of Æsop’s fables, 357

Asnapper (Sardanapalus), 206, 401

Aspasia, 197, 390-1

Assurbanipal (Sardanapalus), 206, 401

Atanagi’s Rime Scelte, 331

Athena, 387

Athenian dialect: spoken with excessive care by Theophrastus, 5; not rigidly adhered to by excellent Greek authors, 47

Athens, 101, 197 feminine constancy commemorated by a statue at, 192

Athos, Mount, 274, 411

Atri, Giacomo d’, (Count Pianella),—see Pianella

Attendolo, Muzio, called Sforza, 381

Attire appropriate to the courtier, 102-4

Augustus, 190, 388, 401

Aurelian, the Emperor, 401

Austria, Margarita of, 202, 395-6 Maximilian of,—see Maximilian I Philip of, 413

Autharis, King of the Lombards, 393

Ayola, Maria de, 317

Bacon, Francis, afterwards Lord Verulam, 316

Bactria, 285, 414

Bad government, the evils of, 249

Bad master, the courtier to leave the service of a, 99, 285