INDEX must be no less well informed than the courtier, and understand even those exercises that she does not practise ; she must also be accomplished in litera- ture, music, painting and dancing, i8o ; Pallavicino objects to such multiplicity of acquirement, i8i-a COURTIER, THE BOOK OF THE. reasons for writing, 1,7; reasons for hasty publication of, i ; " a picture of the court of Urbino," 2; excuse for not writing in the Tuscan dialect, 3-5; purports to record actual dialogues, 8; when ^vritten, 319 Courtiers* duty to entice their prince towards virtue, 250-1 Courtiership : the subject of the book, 7; beginning of the discussion concerning the perfCvtion of, 19; be- ginning of the discussion concerning the proper aims of, 246 ; explanation of the w^ord, 325 Crassus, Lucius Licinius, the orator, 44, 49, 51, 339, 344 Marcus Licinius, the triumvir, 347 Crassus Mucianus, Publius Licinius, loi, 358 Crato, Johannes, 420 Creede, T.,421 Crema, Margarita, 362 Cretans, cultivators of music, 64 Crimson velvet, jest about a captain who celebrated his infrequent victories by wearing, 152 Crivello, Biagino, 153,381 Crotona, the five beautiful maidens of, 70, 35Z Cufia, Don Pedro de, — see Messina, the Prior of Cuppis (or Coppi) da Montefolco, Bernardo de, 404 Lucrezia de, 404 Curll, E., 421 Curtius Rufus, Quintus, his History of Alexander the Great, 358 Custom, the basis of manners, 7 Cyrene, 348 Cyrus, 201, 393, 400 Dam€iscOf play upon the w^ord, 150 Dances: see Basset, Brawl, Morris-dance, Moresca, Roegars^ Dancing : affectation in, 36 ; how to be practised, 86-7 Dante, 323, 330, 339, 340, 363, 381 Dante*s Divina Com/meddaf 323 Inferno f 360 Pa/radisOf 416 PurgatoriOf 376 Vita Ntiova, 348 I>ansa/re and ballare compared, 352-3, 38a D'Arco, MS. bibliographical notes by the late Count, at Mantua, 417 Darius III of Persia, 103, 207, aia, 358, 401 Dauson, Thomas, 420 Day, John, 420 Death from excessive joy, an instance of, 195-7 Deceased friends, the author's eulogy of his, 2-3, 243-4 Deceptions and tricks practised by lovers, 217-8 Defects and foibles, limits to be observed in ridiculing, 128 Defender of the Faith, origin of the title, 412 Deianeira, 415 Demarata, 390 Demetrius I of Macedon, 69, 351, 392 Demetrius II of Macedon, 200, 392 Democritus, 124, 337, 361 Demosthenes, 344 Denham, Henry, 420 Dennistoun, James, 317, 322, 334 Dennistoun's " Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino," 335, 337. 377, 397 Derketo, a Syrian goddess, 401 Deserve, the best way to win princes' favour is to de- serve it, 96 Devices {vmprese), 12, 330 Diacceto, Francesco Cattani da, 51, 345-6 429 Diacceto's Tre Idbri d'Amoret 346 Diana, 194 Digressions from the main subject of the work : on liter- ary style, 38-54; on pleasantries and witticism, 120- i6a ; on the attributes of the perfect court lady, 175-228; on Platonic love, 288-307 Dinocrates, 411 Dio of Syracuse, 285, 4x4-5 Diocletian, the Emperor, 404 Diogenes Laertius, 348 Diomed, 275, 411 Dionyaius the Elder of Syracuse, 348, 415 Dionysius the Younger of Syracuse, 285, 415 Diotima, 197, 308, 391 Disguises, fancy dress, etc., 87-8 Disparagement, to be avoided, 115-6 Divorce, impliedly favoured, 224 Djem Othman, 141, 371-2 Dnieper, comic story of words frozen in crossing the, 133-3 Dolce, Lrudovico, 420 Dolet, Estienne, 419 Domenico, a printer at Venice, 420 Donatello, 341 Donate, Geronimo, 136, 365-6 Don Carlos, Prince of Spain, (afterwards Charles V of Spain), 276, and see Charles V of Spain Donkey, story of peasant who had lost his, 128-g Double ententCt instances of allowable, 125 Doves, story of a tiresome fellow and his, 148 Dovizi, Bernardo, — see Bibbiena Pietro, 321 Drake, S., 421 Draw^ing, a necessary accomplishment for the courtier, 65 Dreams, Alfonso I's jesting advice to a servant regard- ing, 153 Dress : the courtier's, 102-4 ; ^^ index of character, 103-5; ^^c court lady's, 179-80 Ducats : as a laudatory simile, 140-1 ; story of the prior who had borrow^ed ten thousand, 150-z Duchess of Urbino, the, — see Gonzaga, Eleanora and Elisabetta Duel : the courtier to know how^ to conduct a, 30 ; story about a, 152 Due tortiy pl^y upon the words, 151 Duhamel, I'Abb^, 421 " Duke Borso," — see Este, Borso d', Duke of Ferrara '* Duke Federico,"— see Montefeltro, Federico di, Duke of Urbino '* Duke Filippo," — see Visconti, Filippo Maria " Duke Valentino,"— see Borgia, Cesare Dur&n, Alfonso, 421 Diirer, Albert, 342, 343 Earth, story about disposing of earth from an excava- tion, 129-30 Edward III of England, 387 Edward IV of England, 413 Edward VII of England, 380 Egano, a character in Boccaccio, 164, 165 Egnatius, a character in Catullus, 55, 346 Egypt, the pyramids of, said to have been built in order to keep the Egyptians busy, 267 Eleanora of Portugal, 396 Elias, 305 Elis in Achaia, 171, 387 Elizabeth of England, 316, 329 Elizabeth of Portugal, 387 Elizabeth of York, 412, 413 Elmo, St., 147, 376 Elocution, the essentials of, 4 Emanuel I of Portugal, 133, 36 Emilia Pia, — see Pia
