A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 2 (of 2)Trollope, Thomas Adolphus
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A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 2 (of 2)
Trollope, Thomas Adolphus
Italy -- Biography; Women -- Biography
Morata, Olympia, her birth, 55–60
early promise and beauty, 62
first seeds of Protestant doctrine, 67
her acquirements at thirteen years old, 70
flattered by all Ferrara, 71
becomes an inmate of the Court, 79
her delight at her new position, 82
her earliest compositions, 83
her lecturing at sixteen, 84
specimen of her elocution, 86
verses to her from Giraldi, 88
her Greek verses, 90
her female friendships, 100
early religious indifferentism, and subsequent strong convictions, 103, 107
translations from Boccaccio, 103
her Greek epitaph on Cardinal Bembo, 106
at her father's death–bed, 109
dismissed from the palace, 110
visits Fannio in his prison, 116
commencement of religious convictions, 117
changed circumstances, 119
her lines on virginity, _ib._
letter to Curione on her time of disgrace, 120
commencement of regeneration, 122
her love, 126
her marriage, _ib._
separated from her husband, 127
her letter to her husband, 128
detention of her dresses by the Court, 130
dialogue with Lavinia della Rovere, 132
finally leaves Italy, 139
her journey across the Alps, 141
her letter to Giraldi, 146
misgivings as to her classical studies, _ib._
Curione encourages her, 147
her stay with Hermann, _ib._
urges Lavinia della Rovere to save Fannio, 148
her stay with John Sinapi, 149
her ideas of a special providence, 150, 174
settles at Schweinfurth, 151
her real name questioned, 152
is an interesting character both to the religionist and the moralist,
_ib._
letter to Curione, 155
sends money to her mother, 156
letter to Lavinia della Rovere, 157
moderation of her Calvinism, _ib._
her dialogue between Philotima and Theophila, 159
receives her books from Italy, 160
receives Theodora Sinapi, 161
lectures a backsliding divine, 165
tends her husband in his sickness, 174
her letter during the siege to Lavinia della Rovere, 174
letter to her sister describing her flight from Schweinfurth, 176
miserable journey to Erbach, 178
her health destroyed, 179
at Hirschhorn, 183
is offered a chair of Greek at Heidelberg, 184
receives letter and books from Curione, 187
ignorance of German, 190
declines to be at the Court of the Electress of Heidelberg, 192
receives Theodora Sinapi at Heidelberg, 192
theology of her letters, 193
her desire for death, 194
her last letter to Curione, 196
her last moments, 197
her epitaph, 198
her European reputation, 199
the basis of it, 200
value of her story to us, 203
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