Part 99

Bibbiena’s Calandra, 314, 321, 335, 356, 367

Bible, citations from the, 96, 137, 139, 301, 305, 357, 366, 415, 416

Bibulus, Marcus, 389

Bidon, 50, 340

Biga, Maddalena, a virtuous peasant girl, 403

Biondo, Flavio, 410

Birth, gentle, requisite in the courtier, 22-5

Bischizzo, bisticcio, 136, 365

Bishop, George, 421

Blanc, Charles, 327

Blanche, Queen of France, 395

Blasphemy, to be avoided, 143

Blind, story of two gamesters who made their companion believe that he was, 157-9

Boadilla (or Bobadilla), My lady, (Beatriz Fernandez de Bobadilla, Marchioness of Moya), 148, 164, 377

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 3, 4, 5, 41, 42, 49, 50, 51, 52, 164, 165, 167, 323, 339

Boccaccio’s Corbaccio, 384 Decameron, 127, 161, 384

Bohemia, Ladislas II of, 397

Boisy, Sieur de, 346

Bologna: subdued by Julius II, 12; mentioned as full of turmoil, 139; the Archbishop of,—see Pavia, the Cardinal of

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 313

Bonfons, Nicholas, 420, 421

Boniface, Duke of Tuscany, 394

Borgia, Cardinal Francesco, 156, 382 Cesare, (“Duke Valentino”), 147, 313, 318, 325, 328, 329, 331, 341, 343, 376, 377, 378 Giovanni, 377 Juana (or Isabella), 328 Lucrezia, 322, 328, 330, 359, 363, 373, 377, 399 Roderigo Lenzuoli,—see Alexander VI

Boristhenes,—see Dnieper

Borso, Duke,—see Este

Boscan Almogaver, Juan, 315, 320, 338, 377, 419, 420, 421

Bottone, play upon the word, 152

Bottone da Cesena, 152, 380