"Quando, che alli giorni passati la Morte cavalcò sopra il suo destriero magro, e disfatto per investirsi del titolo di Grande. La Morte ottenne a Roma il titolo di Grande, e conseguita ch'ella ebbe cossifatta indecentissima intitolazione, se ne cavalcava frettolosa alla volta del Poggio a Caiano, e quivi con irresistibile forza e pari valore assaltò il Grande Etrusco di Firenze e Siena, e lo abbattè alli 19 di Ottobre, 1587, a 4 ore e mezzo di notte, e di 47 anni lo privò di vita dopo strani e disusati scontorcimenti, e ululati e muggiti diversi." INDEX. A. Abbioso, Bishop, his courtiership, 329 Academies, tendency of, in Italy, 398 Agricola, theologian, draws up the Interim, 135 Albert of Brandenburg, 171 throws himself into Schweinfurth, 172 is driven out of Schweinfurth, 176 Aldobrandini, Cardinal, dedicated works to Isabella Andreini, 212 Alexander VII. elected, 362 his replies to Olympia's advances, 363 banishes Olympia to Orvieto, 364 Alphonso I. Duke of Ferrara, 37 rides through Ferrara at the Beffana, 45 stolen visit to his bride, 47 his difficulties with the church, 50 Alternatives for an old lady, 21 Aminta of Tasso, 218 Andreini, Isabella, her birth, 205 contemporary with Shakspeare, 206 her titles, 210 goes to France, 211 medal struck in her honour, _ib._ anagrams on her name, 212 praises of, by her contemporaries, _ib._ her irreproachable character, 214 her death and epitaph, _ib._ her "Mirtilla," 216 her letters, _ib._ her dialogues, 217 no account of her characters, 218 Andreini, Francesco, Isabella's husband, 213 Andreini Giovanni Batista, Isabella's son, 211 Angelio of Bargo, Astrologer, 28 Anna d'Este, her birth, 77 Calcagnini's letter to her, 78 Curione's praises of her, _ib._ her affection for Olympia Morata, 89 her marriage, 109 Antonio de' Medici, birth of, 264 Arcadia and the Arcadians, 399 nicknames, 404 falsehood in the matter of Corilla's crowning, 406 Assassinations, common in Florence, 225, 236 Augsburg in the sixteenth century, 143 Avvogaria, register of, obliteration in, 221 B. Bâle, Olympia would willingly settle at, 155 Baker, anecdote of, about B. Cappello, 223 Barbara, Olympia Morata's maid, 163 Bayle, his remark on Isabella Andreini's epitaph, 215 "Beffana," curious custom, 44 Belvidere, near Ferrara, gardens of, 94 Bembo, anecdote of, 61 his character, 105 Olympia Morata's epitaph on him, 106