Part 97

Baja, 274, 410

Bajazet II of Turkey, 141, 173, 372, 388

Balance and contrast, in art and character, 83

Baldi, Bernardino, 327

Baldness, jests about Bernardo Bibbiena’s, 122, 155

Ballare and danzare compared, 352-3, 382

Ballatore, 156, 382

Balzo, Antonia del, 400, 404 Isabella del, Queen of Naples,—see Isabella del Balzo

Banchi, a street in Rome, the scene of a trick played upon Bibbiena, 159-60, 383

Bandello, 366

Barbara of Brandenburg, Marchioness of Mantua, 374, 404

Barbarelli, Giorgio,—see Giorgione

Barbarian influence upon Latin, resulting in Italian, 43

Barbary pirates, touching incident following a husband’s rescue from, 195-7

Barbèra, Gaspare, 422

Bari, Roberto da,—see Roberto da Bari

Barletta, 73, 87, 352

Barletta, the tournament at, 351

Barlettani, Lucrezia, 367

Barozzi, Pietro, the (Arch-) Bishop of Padua, 136, 366

Bartolommeo, joke concerning the name, 151

Basa, Bernardo, 420

Basset, a dance performed after the first evening’s discussion, 73, 352

Battesworth, A., 421

Bavaria, Duke Albert III of, 374 Margarita of,—see Margarita of Bavaria

Bayeux, the Bishop of,—see Canossa, Ludovico da

Beatrice, a character in Boccaccio, 164, 165 of Lorraine, 394

Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond, 413