Coryate, his journey on foot, Feluca, 266.
Crystal hunters, 23.
Cumæ, 230.
Dandolo Henry, his embark- ation, 67.
Dante, his seat at Florence, 122; his Inferno, 123, and note; his adventure in the Baptistery, 124. Decameron, scene of, 133. Desaix, his tomb, 21.
Florence, her splendour and beauty, chapel of Massac- cio, seat of Dante, baptis- tery, chapel of the Medici, citadel, &c. 121.
Florence, campagna of; Ci-
mabué, Giotto, Boccaccio, Macchiavel, Galileo, Pe- trarch, &c. 132. Foreign travel, 203.
Forum at Rome, 170.
Dogs of St. Bernard, 13; Foscari, 90.
Geneva, departure from at Johnson entering London, 3.
day-break, 1.
Genoa, 270.
Jorasse, a chamois hunter,
Gibbon at Lausanne, 7, and Joux, the castle of, in
Ginevra, 110; note, 310. Giotto, a Madonna of his be- longing to Petrarch, note, 108; found, when a shep- herd-boy, by Cimabué, 132. Glow-worm, 202.
Godfrey of Bouillon, 256. Goldoni, his excursion, note, 79.
Goldsmith, his journey on foot, note, 205. Gondola, 76. Gondolier, his song, 79. Gongora, romance of, note, 334.
Gracchus, Caius, note, 325. Grande Chartreuse, 17, 18; its origin, note, 289. Great St. Bernard, 13. Guirlandina, 110.
Hannibal, crossing the Alps,
Hofer, his embarkation on the lago di Garda, his death and tomb, note, 44. Holland, history of the re- public of, note, 299. Horace, 169. 172. 201. 203. Horatii, sacred field of, 188.
Ilex, its longevity, note, 330. Imelda, her story, 144, 145. Isabella de' Medici, 149. Italian character, 57.
Franche-Comté, 5. Jugurtha, 174. Juliet at Verona, 48. Jura, 5.
Kepler, his letter to Galileo, note, 315.
La Riccia, 188.
Lake of the Four Cantons, 8. Laocoon, group of, disco-
vered, note, 323. Larian Lake, 38. Lausanne, 7.
Leman Lake, 3. 11. Lionardo da Vinci, his fresco of the Last Supper, note, 326.
Loredano, his hatred, 97. Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, his statue called Il Pensiero, 125. Lucrezia, Madonna, 237. Ludlow, note, 7. Luigi, a carbonajo, a valet, a guide, &c. 63.
Macchiavel in Val di Pesa, 136. Mal'aria, 252. Malta, knights of, their ori- gin, 256. Mantua, 39.
Marco di Sciarra, the bandit,
his conduct to Tasso, 213.
Marco Griffoni, 275.
Marco Polo, 69.
Marcolini, story of, 102.
Montorio, story of, 162.
Mora, the game of, 63; and note, 300.
Maremma, 281; anecdote of Morgante Maggiore, sung by
Marguerite de Tours, story of, 28. Martigny, 30. Massaccio, his chapel, 121; Raphael and Michael An- gelo studying there, 122. Mastino de la Scala, his hos-
pitality, 45, and note. Medici, Lorenzo de', his sta- tue, 125; Cosmo and his sons Garzia and Giovanni, 128.
Pulci at the table of Loren- zo the Magnificent, 148. Mount Alburnus, 249.
Naples, her bay sailed round, the Elysian Fields, tomb of Virgil, Vesuvius, Cu- mæ, Baiæ, Capreæ, Pom- peii, 226. Napoleon, his conduct to Toussaint, 5; his march over the Alps, 21. 37; turns aside to see the pe- ninsula of Catullus, 39. Nardi, note, 302. Necker, tomb of, 7. Nisus and Euryalus, 187. Nun taking the veil, 196.
Meillerie, 6. Michael Angelo, studying at Florence, 122; his sculp- tures in the chapel of the Medici, 125; his Cartoon of Pisa, 140; his speech on his road to Rome, 315; Orfano, Canal, 72. his visit to the Laocoon,
Milton, his interview with Galileo, 138; reclining by the Arno, 142.
Padua, 55. 154.
Pæstum, her temples, their long obscurity, the Greek city, the Roman city, 248.
Modena, palace of the Or- Palatine, 169.
sini at, 110.
Mons Albanus, 186.
Mons Sacer, 188.
Mont-Blanc, in the morning,
4; in the evening, 288. Monte Cassino, a Benedic- tine Abbey, 259. Monte Cavo, 186. Montesquieu and Chesterfield at Venice, note, 306.
Palazzo Vecchio, 130. Palestrina, 188.
Palmyra, 174.
Pansa, his house at Pompeii,
232; note, 332. Parthenope, 228.
Pauline chapel, note, 192. Perseus and his sons led in triumph, 173; his suppli- cation to Æmilius, note,326.
Petrarch, his verses sung by Raphael, his funeral, 179. the minstrels, 46; present | Ravenna, 118.
at a tournament, 68; his funeral attended by F. Car- rara I, note, 45; his tomb, 105; his visits to Vau- cluse and his seclusion at Arquà, 107, 108; nearly lost, when a child, in the Arno, 141; in his youth a student of the law under Andreas, 242; his walk with Stephen Colonna, note, 328.
Petrocchi, his sonnet, 311. Piedmontese nobleman, his story, 209, 210. Pindar, his house, note, 334. Pisa, 139; lines on, note, 320. Pisani Nicolo, note, 267. Pliny the Younger, his villas
on the Larian Lake, 38. Pliny the Elder, his death, note, 231. Poggio Caïano, villa of Lo-
renzo de' Medici, murder of Bianca Capello and the Grand Duke there, 148. Polesine, when overflowed, 280.
Rhodes, Knights of, 256. Rhone, the, its descent from the Alps, 11; its rapidity, and its vineyards, castles, &c. 106. Rialto, 88. Ripaille, 6.
Rome, her solitude, her gran- deur, the Palatine, Forum, &c. 167; her origin and her progress from the landing of Eneas to the irruption of the Goths, 186. Rousseau, 2; note, 37. Runnemede, 10. Rusconi, the bandit, 220.
Sacred way, 172. St. Bruno, note, 289. St. Mark's Place, the church, campanile, ducal palace, the bridge of sighs, a scene of revelry and masking, 66. St. Peter's church, exposi- tion of the holy sacrament, there, note, 192.
Salvator Rosa, his life as a bandit, 255; his portrait of his hostess, note, 323. Scala de' Giganti, 70. Scala, Mastino de la, his hos- pitality, 45.
Sforza, Francesco, 94, and
Sforza, G., his death de-
scribed, 139, and note. Sicardi, 257.
Song of the sky-lark, 1. 151; of the nightingale, 270. Sophonisba, 174.
Sorrento, the birth-place of Tasso, 254. Spartacus, 249.
Spezzia, Gulf of, 266. Strozzi, Filippo, his writing
on the wall, 126.
Sun-rise in Italy, note, 323. Sun-set in Italy, 144. 150;
Tarantella, the dance de- scribed, 228. Tartarus, 227. Tasso, his dungeon, 64; his adventure with the ban- ditti, 213; his birthplace, 254; his villa, 292. Tassoni, note, 110. Tell, William, 9. 34. Terracina, 203.
Theatre, in the gardens of the villa Madama, 161. Thermopylæ,
Thrasymene, 152.
Tiber, its source, 139. Tiberius at Capreæ, 230.
Tibur, now Tivoli, 169. 187. 201.
Titian, his Supper, 302. Tintoret, his sally at table, 302.
Tophana, 147, and note. Tournaments in St. Mark's Place, 68; in the Place of S. Croce, note, 68. Toussaint, his dungeon, 5. Trabocchetto, il, 147, and note.
Val d'Aosta, 29. Val di Pesa, 136. Vallombrosa, 18. Varano, note, 330. Velino, the falls of, 157. Venice, her birth, her enter-
prize, her commerce in the East, her caravans in Eu- rope, her decline and fall, 54.
Verdea, La, 137; and note,
Via della Morte, note, 312. Via Sacra, 172.
Villas Gherardi and Palmi- eri, 134; Poggio-Caïano and Cerreto, 148; Caffag- giòlo, 149; Madama, 160; Zanga, 292.
Violets of Pæstum, 249, and note.
Virgil reading the Eneid to Octavia, 170; travelling to Brundusium, 203; his farm, 39. Virginius, 171.
Visconte, Duke of Milan, note, 295.
Wandering Jew, 74; and note, 303.
Zanga, Tasso's villa near Bergamo, note, 292. Zenobia, 174.
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