قراءة كتاب A Decade of Italian Women, v. II (of 2)
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A DECADE
OF
ITALIAN WOMEN.
BY
T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE,
AUTHOR OF "THE GIRLHOOD OF CATHERINE DE' MEDICI."
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.
1859.
[The right of Translation is reserved.]
LONDON
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.
CONTENTS.
TULLIA D'ARAGONA.
Born, about 1510. Died, about 1570.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| PAGE | |
| My Lord Cardinal's daughter | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Aspasia rediviva | 10 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| "All's well, that ends well" | 21 |
OLYMPIA MORATA.
Born, 1526. Died, 1555.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Good old times in Ferrara.—How a Pope's daughter became a Duchess; bygones were bygones; and Love was still the lord of all | 30 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Troublous new times in Ferrara.—How a French King's daughter became a Duchess; bygones were aught but bygones; and Mitre and Cowl were lords of all | 54 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| How shall a Pope be saved? with the answer thereto.—How shall our Olympia be saved? To be taken into consideration in a subsequent chapter | 77 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| "The whirligig of time brings in his revenges."—Still Undine.—The "salvation" question stands over | 92 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Dark days.—The great question begins to be answered | 108 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| The question fully answered at last.—Farewell, Ferrara!—Welcome inhospitable Caucasus.—Omne solum forti patria est | 122 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| At Augsburg; and at Würzburg | 143 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| The home at Schweinfurth | 154 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| The makers of history.—The flight from Schweinfurth | 168 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| A new home in Heidelberg; and a last home beneath it.—What is Olympia Morata to us? | 182 |
ISABELLA ANDREINI.
Born, 1562. Died, 1604.
| Italian love for the Theatre.—Italian Dramatic Literature.—Tragedy.—Comedy.—Tiraboschi's notion of it.—Macchiavelli's Mandragola.—Isabella's high standing among her contemporaries.—Her husband.—Her high character.—Death, and Epitaph.—Her writings.—Nature and value of histrionic art | 205 |
BIANCA CAPPELLO.
Born, 1548. Died, 1587.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| The pretty version of the story; and the true version of the same.—St. Mark's Square at Florence.—Bianca's beauty.—The Medici en famille.—The Casino of St. Mark.—The proprieties.—"Cosa di Francesco" | 220 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| A favourite's husband.—The natural | |