Part 98

Beauty: personal beauty requisite in the courtier, 23; beauty unadorned, 55; love defined as “a certain desire to enjoy beauty,” 288; two ways of enjoying beauty, 289; beauty, an effluence of divine goodness, 289; cannot be truly enjoyed by possessing the body in which it is found, 290; “beauty is good:” true love of beauty works for good, 291; effect of women’s beauty on their own character, 292-3, 296; “Do not believe that beauty is not always good,” 293; beauty, a true sign of inward goodness, 294; beauty through utility, 294-5; “the good and the beautiful are in a way one and the same thing,” 295; bodily beauty derived from beauty of the soul, 295-6; beautiful women, more chaste than ugly women, 296; beauty does not spring from the body wherein it shines, 298; beauty best enjoyed through sight and hearing, 298; beauty engendered in beauty, 299; beauty to be enjoyed for itself, and not for the sake of the body wherein it dwells, 302-3; the highest enjoyment of beauty is the enjoyment of beauty in the abstract, apart from bodily form, 303-4

Beazzano, Agostino,—see Bevazzano

Beccadello, Cesare, 160-1, 383 Domenico Maria, 383 Ludovico, 383

Becco, a he-goat, 129, 363

Beggar and lady at church, story of, 125

Belcolore (a character in Boccaccio), 127

Bellini, the, 343 Gentile, 341 Giacopo, 341 Giovanni, 341 Niccolosa, 341

Belvedere, a pavilion in the Vatican Gardens, 274

Bembo, Bernardo, 330 Pietro, 12, 18, 60, 61, 104, 106, 121, 130, 244, 255, 259-60, 287, 288-307, 308, 319, 320, 321, 330-1, 332, 333, 334, 336, 340, 342, 343, 345, 348, 358, 359, 362, 363, 364, 367, 368, 369, 374, 379, 380, 383, 403, 407, 415

Bembo’s Gli Asolani, 330, 336, 415 Prose, 340

Bentivogli, the, 375

Bentivoglio, Francesca, 314 Laura, 373

Berenson, Bernhard, 343

Berg, Adam, 420

Bergamasque dialect, rude by contrast with others, 41, 338 peasant, story of two great ladies deceived by a, 156-7

Bergamo, 105, 338

Bergamo, Lattanzio da, 376

Bernardone, Gianfrancesco, (St. Francis of Assisi), 416

Bernhardt, Madame Sara, 380

Bernice of Pontus, 389

Beroaldo, Filippo, the elder, 368 Filippo, the younger, 139, 319, 352, 368

Berry, Arthur, “Short History of Astronomy,” 360, 415

Bersine, wife of Alexander the Great, 401

Berto, 26, 128, 336

Bettoni, Niccolò, 421

Bevazzano, Agostino, 144, 374 Francesco, 374

Bias, 263, 408

Bibbiena, Bernardo Dovizi da, 2, 12, 28, 32, 36, 43, 110, 121, 122, 123-65, 166, 167, 170, 230, 234, 237, 238, 244, 276, 279, 321-2, 332, 334, 342, 348, 360, 361, 363, 367, 379, 407, 413