BELLARMINO, Cardinal, on the inviolability of the Vulgate, i. 212; relations of, with Fra Paolo Sarpi, ii. 213, 222; his censure of the _Pastor Fido_, 251. BELRIGUARDO, the villa of, Tasso at, ii. 53. BEMBO, Pietro, i. 30, 41. BENDEDEI, Taddea, wife of Guarini, ii. 245. BENTIVOGLI, the semi-royal offspring of King Enzo of Sardinia, ii. 304. BIBBONI, Cecco: his account of how he murdered Lorenzino de'Medici, i. 488 _sqq._; his associate, Bebo, details of the life of a _bravo_, 389; tracking an outlaw, 392; the wages of a tyrannicide, 394; the _bravo's_ patient watching, 395; the murder, 397; flight of the assassins, 399; their reception by Count Collalto, 401; they seek refuge at the Spanish embassy, 402; protected by Charles V.'s orders, 403; conveyed to Pisa, 404; well provided for their future life, _ib._ BITONTO. Pasquale di, one of the assassins of Sarpi, ii. 212. BLACK garments of Charles V., the, i. 43. BLACK Pope, the, i. 275. BLOIS, Treaty of, i. 12. BOBADILLA, Nicholas, associate of Ignatius Loyola, i. 240; his work as a Jesuit in Bavaria, 258. BOLOGNA and Modena, humors of the conflict between, ii. 304. BOLOGNESE school of painters, the, ii. 343 _sqq._; why their paintings are now neglected, 375 _sqq._; mental condition of Bolognese art, 376. BONELLI, Michele, nephew of Pius V., i. 147. BONIFAZIO of Montferrat, Marquis, one of the Paleologi, i. 23. BORGIA, Francis (Duke of Gandia), third General of the Jesuits, i. 256; prevented by Loyola from accepting a Cardinal's hat, 260. BORROMEO, Carlo: his character, i. 115; a possible successor to Pius IV., 135; ruled in Rome by the Jesuits, 142; his intimacy with Sarpi, ii. 194. ---Federigo, i. 115; letter of, forbidding soldiers' visits to convents, 316 _n._ BRANCACCIO, Diana, treachery of, towards the Duchess of Palliano, i. 378; her murder, 379. 'BRAVI,' maintenance of by Italian nobles, i. 313; tales illustrative of, 388 _sqq._; relations of trust between _bravi_ and foreign Courts, 409. BRIGANDAGE in Italy, i. 416. BROWN, Mr. H.F., his researches in the Venetian archives, i. 189 _n._ BRUCCIOLI, Antonio, translator of the Bible into Italian, i. 76.