SIXTUS V., Pope: short-sighted hoarding of treasure by, i. 153; his enactments against brigandage, 152; accumulation of Papal revenues, _ib._; public works, 153; animosity against pagan art, _ib._; works on and about S. Peter's, 154; methods of increasing revenue, 155; nepotism, 157; development of the Papacy in his reign, 158; his death predicted by Bellarmino, 298; his behavior after the murder of his nephew (Felice Peretti), 362. SODERINI, Alessandro, assassinated together with his nephew Lorenzino de'Medici, i. 398. SOLIMAN, Paul IV.'s negotiations with, i. 103. SOMASCAN Fathers, Congregation of the, i. 79. S. ONOFRIO, Tasso's death at, ii. 78; the mask of his face at, 116. SORANZO, on the character of Pius IV., i. 111 _n._; on Carlo Borromeo, 116 _n._; on the changes in Roman society in 1565, 143. 'SPACCIO della Bestia Trionfante, Lo,' Giordano Bruno's, ii. 132 _n._, 140, 165, 183 _sq._ SPADA, Lionello, Bolognese painter, ii. 364. SPAIN: its position in Italy after the battle of Pavia, i. 14. SPANIARDS of the sixteenth century, character of, i. 59. SPERONI, Sperone: his criticism of Tasso's _Gerusalemme_, ii. 44; a friend of Chiabrera, 287. SPHERE, the, Giordano Bruno's doctrine of, ii. 135, 144 _sq._ STENDHAL, De (Henri Beyle): his _Chroniques et Nouvelles_ cited: on the Cenci, i. 351 _sq._; the Duchess of Palliano, 373. STERILITY of Protestantism, ii. 401. STROZZI, Filippo, i. 46. ---Piero, i. 47. T TASSO, Bernardo (father of Torquato), i. 38; his birth and parentage, ii. 5; the _Amadigi_, 7, 11, 18, 35; his youth and marriage, 7; misfortunes, _ib._; exile and poverty, 8; death of his wife, 9; his death, 10, 35; his character, _ib._; his _Floridante_, 35. ---Christoforo (cousin of Torquato), ii. 14.