Catherine, Saint (Caterina Benincasa), her birth and childhood, 43; takes the Dominican habit, 43, 44; her early visions and mystical marriage, 44; her family life, 45; saves her brothers' lives, 45; her mystical change of heart and vision of the spirit world, 46; her active work in the city, 46, 47; her disciples, 47, 48; her account of the execution of Niccolò di Toldo, 48-50; becomes a political power, 50; reconciles the Salimbeni, 50; her letters and her philosophy of life, 51; letters to the Legate of Bologna and to Bernabò Visconti, 51; to Beatrice della Scala, 51, 52; on the corruption of the Church, 52; supports the proposed Crusade and attempts to rid Italy of the free companies, 52; at Pisa, 52, 53; intervenes in the war between Tuscany and the Pope, 54; her letters to Gregory XI., 54, 55; to the Signoria of Florence, 55, 56; at Florence and at Avignon, 56, 57; persuades the Pope to return to Rome, 57; at Genoa, 57; letters to Lapa, Giovanna Maconi and the Pope, 57, 58; her rupture with Gregory XI., 58, 59; her troubles, 59; at Florence for peace, 59; addresses Urban, 59; is assailed by the Ciompi, 60; letters to Frate Raimondo and her disciples at Siena, 60; her literary work, 61; her attitude towards Urban VI., 62; preaches to the Cardinals, 63; her passionate support of Urban against Clement, 63, 64; rebukes Frate Raimondo, 64; works with the Roman Republic, 64; last political letters, 64, 65; saves Urban from the people, 65; her vision of the _Navicella_, 65; last farewell to Raimondo, 66; her death, 66; Niccolò Borghesi's devotion to her, 85; pictures of her, 114, 118, 119, 120, 123, 139; canonisation of by Pius II., 174; her relations with the Disciplinati, 187; unhistorical historical picture of her, 188; site of her first vision, 189, 190; her "Oratorio in Fontebranda," 191; its history, 191, 192; statues of her by Urbano da Cortona and Neroccio, 192, 195; frescoed scenes of her life in her house, 195, 196; her cell and relics, 196; the two upper oratories in her house, 196, 197; the legend of the reception of the Stigmata, 197, 198; bust of her by Cozzarelli, 198; her festa in the Contrada, 198, 201; her shrine in San Domenico, 204, 205; her relics, 206; in the Cappella delle Volte, 206-208; her portrait by Andrea di Vanni, 206, 207; reflections on her mysticism, 209; heals a feud in San Cristofano, 289; her letters in the Biblioteca Comunale, 292; at Belcaro, 303; relations with the Augustinian hermits of Lecceto, 305, 308, 309; her praises sung by the papal choristers to the monks of Monte Oliveto, 323. Ceccolini, Cerreto, 17, 251. Cerretani, family of the, 37, 40. ---- Ildebrando, 89. Cellino di Nese, sculptor (later Trecento), 99. Charlemagne, alleged privileges granted by him to Siena, 2. Charles I., King of Naples (Charles the Elder of Anjou), 18, 20, 331.