Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 6 and 7 (of 7): The Catholic ReactionSymonds, John Addington
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Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 6 and 7 (of 7): The Catholic Reaction
Symonds, John Addington
Catholic Church -- Italy -- History; Renaissance -- Italy
BRUNO, Giordano:
his birth, and training as a Dominican, ii. 129;
early speculative doubts, 130;
_Il Candelajo_, 131, 183;
early studies, 133;
prosecution for heresy, 134;
a wandering student, 135;
at Geneva, 136;
Toulouse, 137;
at the Sorbonne, 138;
the Art of Memory, 139, 154;
_De Umbris Idearum_, _ib._;
relations with Henri III., 140;
Bruno's person and conversation, 141;
in England, _ib._;
works printed in London, 142;
descriptions of London life, _ib._;
opinion of Queen Elizabeth, 143;
lecturer at Oxford, 144;
address to the Vice-Chancellor, 146;
academical opposition, 147;
the Ash-Wednesday Supper, _ib._;
in the family of Castelnau, 148;
in Germany, 149;
Bruno's opinion of the Reformers, _ib._;
the _De Monade_ and _De Triplici Minimo_, 150;
Bruno in a monastery at Frankfort, 151;
invited to Venice, 153;
a guest of Mocenigo there, 154;
his occupations, 156;
denounced by Mocenigo and imprisoned by the Inquisition, 157;
the heads of the accusation, 157 _sqq._;
trial, 159;
recantation, 160;
estimate of Bruno's apology, 161;
his removal to and long imprisonment at Rome, 163;
his execution, 164;
evidence of his martyrdom, 164 _sqq._;
Schoppe's account, 165;
details of Bruno's treatment in Rome, 167;
the burning at the stake, 167 _sq._;
Bruno a martyr, 168;
contrast with Tasso, 169;
Bruno's mental attitude, 170 _sq._;
his championship of the Copernican system, 172;
his relation to modern science and philosophy, 173;
conception of the universe, 173 _sqq._;
his theology, 175;
the _Anima Mundi_, 177;
anticipations of modern thought, 178, 182;
his want of method, 180;
the treatise on the Seven Arts, 182;
Bruno's literary style, 182 _sqq._;
his death contrasted with that of Sarpi, 239 _n._
BRUSANTINI, Count Alessandro (Tassoni's 'Conte Culagna'), ii. 301, 306.
BUCKET, the Bolognese, ii. 305.
BUONCOMPAGNO, Giacomo, bastard, son of Gregory XIII., i. 150.
---Ugo, _see_ GREGORY XIII.
BUONVISI, Lucrezia, story of, i. 330;
intrigue with Arnolfini, 331;
murder of her husband, 332;
Lucrezia suspected of complicity, 334;
becomes a nun (Sister Umilia), _ib._;
the case against her, 338;
amours of inmates of her convent, 340;
Umilia's intrigue with Samminiati, _ib._;
discovery of their correspondence, 341;
trial and sentences of the nuns, 344;
Umilia's last days, 345.
---Lelio, assassination of, i. 332.
BURGUNDIAN diamond of Charles the Bold, the, i. 38.
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CALCAGNINI, Celio, letter of, on religious controversies, i. 74.
CALVAERT, Dionysius, a Flemish painter in Bologna, ii. 355.
CALVETTI, Olimpio (one of the assassins of Francesco Cenci), i. 350.
CALVIN, i. 73;
his relation to modern civilization, ii. 402.
CAMBRAY, Treaty of (the Paix des Dames), i. 9, 15.
CAMERA Apostolica, the, venality of, i. 140.
CAMERINO, Duchy of, i. 86.
CAMPANELLA, on the black robes of the Spaniards in Italy, i. 44.
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