---Porzia de' (mother of Torquato Tasso): her parentage, ii. 5, 7; her marriage, 7; her death, probably by poison, 9; her character, 12; Torquato's love for her, 15. ---Vittorio de': his description of the ill-treatment of Aldo Manuzio in Rome, i. 217 _sq._ ROVERE, Francesco della (Duke of Urbino), account of, i. 36. RUBBIERA, a fief of the Empire, i. 40. RUSKIN, Mr., on the cause of the decline of Venice, i. 423 _n._; invectives of, against Domenichino's work, ii. 359. S SACRED Palace, the Master of the: censor of books in Rome, i. 201. SALMERON, Alfonzo, associate of Ignatius Loyola, i. 240; in Naples and Sicily, 254. SALUZZO ceded to Savoy, i. 56. SALVIATI, Leonardo, a critic of the _Gerusalemme Liberata_, ii. 72. SAMMINIATI, Tommaso, intrigue and correspondence of, with Sister Umilia (Lucrezia Buonvisi), i. 341 _sqq._; banished from Lucca, 344. S. ANNA, the hospital of, Tasso's confinement at, ii. 66 _sqq._ SAN BENITO, the costume of persons condemned by the Inquisition, i. 177. SANSEVERINO, Amerigo, a friend of Bernardo Tasso, ii. 14. ---Ferrante di, Prince of Salerno, i. 38; ii. 6 _sqq._ SANTA CROCE, Ersilia di, first wife of Francesco Cenci, i. 347. SANVITALE, Eleonora, Tasso's love-affair with, ii. 48. SARDINIA, the island of, a Spanish province, i. 45. SARPI, Fra Paolo: his birth and parentage, ii. 185; his position in the history of Venice, 186; his physical constitution, 189; moral temperament, 190; mental perspicacity, 191; discoveries in magnetism and optics, 192; studies and conversation, 193; early entry into the Order of the Servites, _ib._; his English type of character, 194; denounced to the Inquisition, 195; his independent attitude, 196; his great love for Venice, 197; the interdict of 1606, 198; Sarpi's defence of Venice against the Jesuits, 199 _sqq._; pamphlet warfare, 201; importance of this episode, 202; Sarpi's theory of Church and State, 203; boldness of his views, 205; compromise of the quarrel of the interdict, _ib._; Sarpi's relations with Fra Fulgenzio, 207; Sarpi warned by Schoppe of danger to his life, 208; attacked by assassins, 209; the _Stilus Romanae Curiae_, 211; history of the assassins, 212; complicity of the Papal Court, 213; other attempts on Sarpi's life, 214 _sq._; his opinion of the instigators, 216; his so called heresy, 218; his work as Theologian to the Republic, 219; his minor writings, 221; his opposition to Papal Supremacy, _ib._; the _History of the Council of Trent_, 222; its sources, 223; its argument, 224; deformation, not reformation, wrought by the Council, 225; Sarpi's impartiality, 226; was Sarpi a Protestant? 228; his religious opinions, 229; views on the possibility of uniting Christendom, 230; hostility to ultra-papal Catholicism, 231; critique of Jesuitry, 233; of ultramontane education, 235; the Tridentine Seminaries, 235;