A Short History of Italy (476-1900)Sedgwick, Henry Dwight
History
A Short History of Italy (476-1900)
Sedgwick, Henry Dwight
Italy -- History
Lucca, 168;
under Castruccio Castracane, 200;
still a republic, 295;
visited by Montaigne, 332;
on Napoleon's fall, 367.
Lucca, Bagni di, 333.
Ludovisi, see Gregory XV, Pope.
Luini, 309.
Luther, Martin, 276, 278, 297.
Lutherans, do not attend Council of Trent, 298.
Lyons, Council of, 142.
Machiavelli, admires Castruccio Castracane, 200;
also Caesar Borgia, 273;
writes, 281;
description of successful Prince, 314, 315;
comedies, 354.
Mafia, 294, 364, 411, 412.
Magenta, battle of, 400.
Malatesta, in Rimini, 198.
Mameli, Goffredo, 393, 394.
Manfred, 141, 143;
defeat and death, 144;
his daughter, 162.
Manin, Daniele, 388, 394.
Mantegna, 288.
Mantua, the Gonzaga in, 198;
duchy, 293;
opera in, 357.
Manzoni, 377.
Marignano, 257.
Maroncelli, 370-372.
Marozia, 75, 76.
Martin V, Pope, 220, 268.
Masaccio, 240, 241.
Mastai-Ferretti, Cardinal, see Pius IX, Pope.
Matilda, Countess, 94;
Donation to Papacy, 94.
Maximilian, Emperor, 265.
Mazzini, 376;
letter to Carlo Alberto, 379-382;
triumvir in Rome, 391-394, 398;
death, 413.
Medici, dei, Alessandro, 263.
Medici, dei, Cosimo, Pater Patriae, 232;
cultivation, 233;
his tastes, 233;
libraries, 233, 234;
death, 235;
anecdote of, with Donatello, 239;
founds Platonic Academy, 243;
and Nicholas V, 251.
Medici, dei, Cosimo I, Grand Duke, 263;
marriage, 291;
rule, 294, 295;
descendants, 295;
his architect, 306.
Medici, dei, Francesco I, Grand Duke, 326, 327.
Medici, dei, Giovanni, see Leo X, Pope.
Medici, dei, Giovanni, Angelo (not of Florentine family), see Pius IV,
Pope.
Medici, dei, Giuliano, see Clement VII, Pope.
Medici, dei, Lorenzo, the Magnificent, 248-250, 286.
Medici, dei, Maria, 357.
Medici, dei, Piero, 244, 249.
Medici, dei, Salvestro, 229.
Mentana, battle of, 407.
Mercenary soldiers, 211-214.
Merovingians, 44.
Metastasio, 359, 360.
Metternich, 367.
Michelangelo, 263;
sonnets, 285;
goes to Rome, 289;
plans dome of St. Peter's, 290;
at discovery of Laocoon, 299;
statues in Florence, 308.
Michelozzo, 233.
Milan, 107;
classes in, 107, 108;
war with Barbarossa, 109;
receives Henry VII, 156;
Visconti in, 198, 199;
acquires Genoa temporarily, 199;
under Gian Galeazzo Visconti, 226;
becomes a dukedom, 226;
cathedral, 226, 227;
loss of dominion on Gian Galeazzo's death, 228;
end of Visconti, 250;
founding of Sforza line, 250;
condition, 1466-1535, 254-258;
captured by French, 257;
by Spanish, 257;
annexed to Spanish crown, 258;
Leonardo there, 286;
Bramante there, 287;
under Spanish governors, 294;
visited by Montaigne, 333;
under Spanish rule, 339, 340;
conveyed to Austria, 341;
Five Days of, 387;
jealous of Turin, 389.
Mille, i, 403.
Minghetti, 413.
Mino, da Fiesole, 244.
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