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Coryate, his journey on foot, Feluca, 266.

note, 205.

Cristine, her story, 51.

Crusoe, note, 308.

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.

De Thou, 130.

De Witt, note, 300.

Ferrara, 64; note, 293.

Ferney, 6.

Fiesco, 274.

Fiesole, 132.

Fire-fly, 200.

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.

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Geneva, departure from at Johnson entering London, 3.

day-break, 1.

Genoa, 270.

Jorasse, a chamois hunter,

22; his adventure, 24.

Gibbon at Lausanne, 7, and Joux, the castle of, in

note.

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,

37.

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

Pia, note, 281.

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,

324.

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.

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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.

St. Preux, 8.

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

note.

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;

and note, 322.

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,

10.

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.

Tramezzine, Bay of, 41.

Ugolino, 101. 141.

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,

317.
Vevey, 4. 7.

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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