General Index
This index includes both names and subjects. All references are to the introduction and the English translation. References to proper names that are alluded to in the text but not explicitly mentioned are enclosed in square brackets. For names in the Latin text, see the glossarial index.
Abbot of Corvara
43n
Abruzzo
69n
Acciaioli, Niccolò
43, 43n
Achates
7n, 95n
Acqui Terme
99n
Acts of the Apostles
139n
Adda (river)
127
Adeimantus (character in Plato’s Republic)
4, 101n
Adorno, Antoniotto
41
Adriatic Sea
125
See also Illyrian Sea
Aedui
125, 127
Aeneas
7n, 95, 95n, 181
Aeschines
Pro Ctesiphonte
41n
Aesculapius
243, 243n
Africa
125
Africanus. See Scipio Africanus, Publius Cornelius and Scipio Aemilianus, Publius Cornelius
Aganippe
171
agate (gem)
7, 95, 95n
Ἁγία Σοφία (Hagia Sophia)
173
Agrippina
197, 197n
Ahala, Gaius Servilius Structus
23n, 133
Alan of Lille
39n
Albano Vercellese
41
Albertino da Salso
237
Albert the Great
8, 20, 39n, 40
Alcaeus
251
Alcibiades
50
Alexander V, pope. See Filargo, Pietro
Alfieri, Alberto
Ogdoas
41
Alighieri, Dante
32, 32n, 60, 119n
Convivio
33
Alonso de Burgos
37n
Alps
4, 14, 42, 127n, 129, 159, 221n
Alverni
125
Ambigatus
125
Ambraci
125
Ambrose, Saint
69, 139, 139n
Anacharsis
93
Anaxagoras
243
ἀνδρεία. See fortitude
Antonio da Rho
37n
Antonio da Vimercate
103n, 181n
Apelles
17, 255, 255n
Apennine Mountains
129
Apollo
243
Apuleius Saturninus, Lucius
133
Apulia
14, 221
Arabia
123
Arabs
243
Archilochus
8, 253
Archimedes
243
Archytas
71, 243
Arese, Andreolo
53
Argelati, Filippo
3n
Argus
223
Arian heretics
139
aristocracy (Gr. ἀριστοκρατία)
9, 131
Aristotelian (follower of Aristotle)
12n
Aristotelianism
38, [50]
See also Scholastic Aristotelianism
Aristotle
7–8, 12, 12n, 18, 38, 47–50, 51, 52, 69n, 119, 241, 243, 253
Dialectic
241
Ethics
241
Historia animalium
39
Metaphysics
241
Meteorology
60, 60n, 241
Physics
107n, 241
Politics
25, 25n, 40, 49, 241
Rhetoric
241
pseudo-Aristotle
Economics (or Oeconomica)
21, 51, 241, 253n
arithmetic
13, 65n, 205–207
Armenia
123
Artemisia
197
Arsenal (of Venice)
235
Asclepiades
243, 243n
Asclepius. See Aesculapius
Asian (adj.)
87
Assyria
123, 225n
astrology
13n, 207
astronomy
13n
Athenian (adj.)
241
Athenians
159, 173, 185
Athens
17, 34, 173, 177, 241, 243
Augustinian (adj.)
209n, 233, 233n
Augustinus, Aurelius (or Augustine), Saint
10n, 20, 28, 34, 40, 69, 199
De civitate Dei
241n
De libero arbitrio
34n
Augustus
253
Aulerci
125
Auvergne
125
Avaricum
125n
Avicenna
243
Bacchus
6, 73, 179
Balbi, Giovanni
60n, 61
Catholicon
59, 65
Baldo of Perugia. See Degli Ubaldi, Baldo
Barbato da Sulmona
42n
Barnabas, Saint
139, 139n
Baron, Hans
24, [38], 46
Barsabbas, Joseph
139n
Barzizza, Gasparino
40, 73n
Basilica of Saint Peter in Ciel d’ Oro in Pavia
233, 233n
Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan
4, 6, 77n, 163n
See also shrine of Ambrose
Battle of Cannae. See Cannae
Battle of Casalecchio
19n, 33, 43n
Battle of Porto Conte
46n
Bauli (now Bacoli, Campania)
75n
Bellovesus
125, 127, 129
Bembo, Pietro
64
Bendideia
4
Bergamo
42, 43, 43n, 46n, 48
Bernardo, Aldo S.
43n, 45n
Berry
125n
Bias (philosopher)
241
Bible
12, 193
See also Old Testament and Vulgate
Bituriges
125, 125n
Boccaccio, Giovanni
42n
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus
233
Boethius’s tomb
233
Bohemia
125
Boii
129
Bologna
27, 237
Bolognese
44n
Bourges
125n
Bracciolini, Poggio
99n
De nobilitate
34
Brennus
129
Brivio, Giuseppe
1
Bruges
26
Bruni, Francesco
31n
Bruni, Leonardo
21–28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37–38, 39, 40, 41, 41n, 46, 48–50, 51, 253
De militia
22–23, 25, 27
Dialogi ad Petrum Histrum
32
Latin translation of Aeschines’s and Demosthenes’s Pro Ctesiphonte
41n
Latin translation of Aristotle’s Politics
49
Latin translation of the pseudo-Aristotelian Economics
21, 51, [253], 253n
Latin translation of Plato’s works
39n, 50
Laudatio Florentine urbis
25, 28, 29n, 34, 37
Life of Aristotle (Vita Aristotelis)
48, 48n
Oratio in funere Iohannis Strozze
23, 29n, 46n
Brutus, Lucius Junius
131, 161
Brutus, Marcus Junius
197
Brutus, Tiberius Junius
[131], [161]
Brutus, Titus Junius
[131], [161]
Burley, Walter
De vita et moribus philosophorum
48n
Bussolari, Jacopo
43n
Byzantine (adj.)
2
Cadiz
73
Caepio, Quintus Servilius
133
Caesar, Gaius Julius
11, 30, 31n, 32, 46, 173, 197, 207, 223
Calabria
71
Calcidius
19, 19n, 39, 40
translation of Plato’s Timaeus
19
Calpurnius Bibulus, Marcus
251n
Camillus, Marcus Furius
23n, 247
Campanians
233
Candaules
[95]
Candia
1
Candido. See Decembrio, Pier Candido
Cane, Facino
2, 13, 21, 75n, 135n, 217
Cannae
14, 163, 221
Capitoline Hill (Rome)
129, 203, 251
Capra, Bartolomeo
40, 41n
Capua
233
Carbonara, Piazza
42, 235
Caria
197
Carmites
125
Carneades
243
Carnutes
125
Carrara, Francesco I da
46n
Carthage
159, 221
Cascellius, Gaius Aulus
239
Catholic faith
12n, 36
See also Christian faith
Cato, Marcus Porcius or Cato the Elder
16, 77, 195, 229
Cato (Roman pontifex)
223, 223n
Cato Uticensis, Marcus Porcius or Cato the Younger
11, 30, 32, 177, 179, 197, 203, 205
Catullus, Gaius Valerius
69
Cebà, Niccolò
49–50
Celtic Gaul. See Gaul
Celts
125
Cenomani
129n
Cephalus (character in Plato’s Republic)
4, 7, 7n
Ceres
181
Chalcis
243
Charles IV, Holy Roman emperor
43n
Charondas
249, 249n
Chartres, school of. See school of Chartres
Chenae
241n
Chilon
241
Christ
75, 139
true light from True Light
223, 257
See also Jesus
choleric man. See four humors theory
Christian (adj.)
12, 20, [34], 46, 64, 73n, 139, 173
faith
12, 18, 137, 139, [223], [257]
See also Catholic faith
Christianity
64
Christians
6, 75, 223, 257
Christmas
115n, 153n
Chronica fratrum Humiliatorum
127n
Chrysippus
243
Chrysoloras, Manuel
2, 3, 19, 64
church of Saint Adrian (Pavia)
233n
Ciceri, Francesco
54, 54n
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
3, 6, 6n, 9, 12, 17, 18, 19–20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 34, 38, 39, 41, (plural) 44, 45, 47, 51, [52], 55, 57, 64, 64n, 75, 75n, 77n, 79, 101n, 131n, 141, 143, 147, 153, 179, 183, 191, 223, 231, 249n, 251, 253, 257
Academica
75n
Brutus
75n
Catilinariae
23n
De divinatione
57n, 75n
De fato
57n
De finibus bonorum et malorum
75n
De natura deorum
57n
De officiis
4, 9, 12n, 16, 19, 20–21, 23, 23n, 24, 39, 47, 48, 51, 89n, 141n, 147n
De oratore
41, 75n
De provinciis consularibus
55
De re publica
18, 34, 39, [79], 79n
De senectute
223n
Latin translation of Xenophon’s Oeconomicus
21, 253, 253n
orations
55
Orator
41
Scipio’s Dream, or Somnium Scipionis (i.e., the sixth book of the De re publica)
18, 39, 79, [257]
Tusculan disputations, or Tusculanae disputationes
4, 11, 17, 38, 48, 57, [75], 179
Cicero Minor, Marcus Tullius
[45], [183]
Ciceronian (adj.)
7, 12, 20, 52
Cincinnatus, Lucius Quintius
17, 133, 161, 249, 249n
Circe
111
civil philosophy, or politics (Gr. πολιτική)
245, 251
Cleanthes
243
Cleobulus
241n
Cleopatra
197, 197n, 251
Clusium
129
Clytemnestra
197, 197n
Codrus
11, 177
Colonna, Giovanni
16n
Comitium
251
Como, Lake
127
Consignatio librorum
53
Constantinople
173
Consualia
81
Contrebia
161n
Corinth
241
Corinthian (adj.)
161
Cotta, Gaius Aurelius
161, 161n
Council of Constance
77n, 139
Council of Pisa
2
Cretans
131
Cromwell, Oliver
36n
Instrument of Government
36n
Cumae
75n
Curius Dentatus, Manius
15, 177n, 229
Curtius, Quintus
177, 177n
Curtius Rufus, Quintus
177n
Dandolo, Andrea
43n
Dante. See Alighieri, Dante
d’ Arbois, Jean
17, 255, 255n
Davus (a slave in Horace’s Satires)
31n
de Canistris, Opicino
Liber de laudibus civitatis Ticinensis
233n
Decembrio, Angelo Camillo
1, 37n
Politia litteraria
3n, 37n
Decembrio, Anselmo
1
Decembrio, Modesto
1, 2, 3, 41, 52, 56–59, 61, 62n
Decembrio, Paolo Valerio
1
Decembrio, Pier Candido
1, 2, 3, 8, 13, 19n, 30, 31, 36, 37, 37n, 42, 50, 50n, 51, 52, 54–56, 57–58, 62n, 217
Celestis Politia (translation of Plato’s Republic)
[37n], 50, 50n
De laudibus Mediolanensium urbis panegyricus
9, 37, 37n, [38]
Epigramma Matthei Iohannis Secretarii
55
Eulogium in Rinucium avarum et maledicum
55
Notitiae obitus nonnullorum ex familia Decembrii Uberti et eorum sepulchri
55
Vita Philippi Marie Vicecomitis
[36n], [54n]
Decembrio, Uberto
references in the De re publica libri IV
[71], [73], [75], [77], 79, [80], [87], 91, 93, [99], 101, [105], [113], [117], [119–121], [123], [129], [139], [145], [147], [155], [157], [159], [163], [165], [167–169], [171], [179], [185], [187], [191], [193], [209], [211], [217–219], [221], [257]
Life
allegedly meets Petrarch
1
appointed podestà of Treviglio by Filippo Maria Visconti
2, 43, 54
appointed secretary of Pietro Filargo
1, 13, [29], [167]
dies in Treviglio
2, [56]
early years and family
1
imprisoned by Facino Cane
2, [3], 13, 31, 75n, [135], 217
meets Coluccio Salutati in Florence
1
moves with Filargo to Milan
2
praises Gian Galeazzo Visconti
10, 32, 167, 237
released after Facino Cane’s and Giovanni Maria Visconti’s deaths
2, 13, 217
studies Greek with Manuel Chrysoloras
2, 18n, [39]
thanks Filippo Maria Visconti for the appointment of his son Pier Candido as ducal secretary
13, 217
translates Plato’s Republic with Manuel Chrysoloras
3, 8, 18n, 19, 20, 21, 39, 40–41, [52], [56], [57], [58], 64, 79
Thought
adopts Petrarch’s anti-Scholastic and anti-Aristotelian polemic
18n, 38, 47
adopts Petrarch’s claim about the superiority of Latin over Greek
38, 47
composes the De re publica libri IV to overcome the ‘crisis’ of Milan
21, 36
definition of justice
6, 27, 91
definition of res publica (commonwealth)
6, 26, 81
political thought and ‘civic humanism’
18–38
reappraises Aristotle
18n, 47–50
similarities with Leonardo Bruni’s political thought
21–34
the ‘inviolable rule’ of the commonwealth
18, 34, 36, 257
translates Plato’s Republic and rediscovers Greek culture and the Greek language
39–40
Works
Compendium Historiae Romanae
3
De candore
3, 3n, 30, 31n, 32, 55, 56
De modestia
3, 55, 56
De re publica libri IV
analysis of
4–18
composition date of
51–52
reception of
36–37, 52–54
manuscript tradition of
54–58
style of
63–65
Epistula ad consolamen amici
42n
In questione proposita utrum maioris sit dignitatis an marchio an comes
42n
Latin translation of Plato’s Republic
3, 8, 18–21, 23, 39, 40, 40n, 41, 50, 52, 55, 56, 57, 58, 64–65, 79
letters
3, 3n, 29n, 55, 56
to an unknown Scholastic follower of Aristotle
38, 47
to Antonio da Vimercate
103, 181
to Bartolomeo Capra
40–41
to Coluccio Salutati
1, 29–30, 32n
to Gian Galeazzo Visconti
19, 33, 44
to Leone Morigia
62n, 73n, 115n, 153n, 183n
to Manuel Chrysoloras
2
to Simone Morigia
62n, 73n
Moralis philosophie dyalogi
3, 52, 53n, 55, 56, 56n, 57, 57n
Oratio de adventu Martini V pontificis
51n, 55
poems
3
to Antonio Loschi
33
to Giovanni II Visconti
32n
Sermo factus ad missam novi sacerdotis
42n
Decius Mus, Publius (father)
30, 177
Decius Mus, Publius (son)
30, 177
degli Omodei, Signorolo
18, 237
degli Ubaldi, Baldo
16, 18, 237
Commentariolum super pace Constantiae
18
della Croce, Manfredo
77n
character in Uberto Decembrio’s De re publica libri IV
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 77, 77n, 79, 91, [93], [99], 111, [117], 123, [129], [139], [145], [155], [157], [163], [165], [171], [185], [191], 193, [215], [221], [257]
della Scala, Antonio
107n
della Scala (family)
[62n], 229
delle Colonne, Guido
Historia destructionis Troiae
95n
Demetrius Phalereus
241n
democracy (Gr. δημοκρατική [πολιτεία])
9, 131, [133]
δημοκρατική. See democracy
Democritus
119, 243
Demosthenes
3, 17, 41n, 253
Pro Ctesiphonte
41n
de’ Terzi, Ottobuono
135
dialectic
13, 17, 205, 241, 253
δικαιοσύνη. See justice
Diogenes Laertius
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
241n
di Santasofia, Marsilio
[62n], 237
Disticha Catonis
4
Donatist heretics
139
Dondi dell’Orologio, Giovanni
1, 42, 217
Drusus, Marcus Livius
133
Du Cange, Charles de Fresne, sieur
63n
duchy of Milan
2, 15, 19
Duria, pass of the
127
economics (Gr. οἰκονομική)
245, 251
Egypt
123
Egyptian (adj.)
251
Egyptians
243
Elders of Genoa
31n
Elis
235
emperor
ancient Roman
73, 173
Holy Roman
43n, 135
England
125
English language
54, 63
Ennius, Quintus
11, 179
ephors
251
Epirus
249n
Eppia
197n
Er. See Myth of Er
Erasmus (of Rotterdam), Desiderius
64n
Erastianism
14, 14n
Erastus, Thomas
14
Eritonius
129
Este, Leonello dʾ
31n
ethics. See natural philosophy
ἠθική. See natural philosophy
Etitovius
129n
Etruscan (adj.)
129
Etruscans
129
εὐκαιρία. See occasion
Euclid
16, 239
εὐταξία. See modesty
Eutropius
249n
Fabian gens
251
Fabius Maximus Eburnus, Quintus
160, 251
Fabius Maximus, Quintus (son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus)
[251]
Fabius Maximus Rullianus, Quintus
161n
Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, Quintus
23n, 161, 223, 249–251
Fabricius Luscinus, Gaius
249, 249n
Falcone, Bartolomeo
145
Faliscans
247–249
Fate (personified)
69, 181
See also Fortune
Ferrando, Giovanni
42–43
Ferrara
31n
Ferraù, Giacomo
52
Fiamma, Galvano
Manipulus florum
129n
Filargo, Pietro
1–2, 13, 29
Alexander V, pope
2, 13, 167
Flavian dynasty
233
Florence
1–2, 3, 21, 22, 25, 28n, 29, 31, 32, 34, 39, 44n, 255
Florentine (adj.)
18, 21, 23, 27, 31n, 32, 34, 38, 46, 50, 51
fortitude (Gr. ἀνδρεία)
7, 109, 151, 247
Fortune (personified)
5, [69–71], 91, 101, 103, 109, 115–117, 125, 181, 191, 193, 217–219, 247
See also Fate
four humors (or elements) theory
83, 201
Francesco, bishop of Acqui
99n
French
dishes
87
(language)
63
words (or terms)
39, 145, 147, 147n
Fulvius Flaccus, Gneus
161
Fulvius Flaccus, Quintus
161, 233
Furius
239
Gabriel (archangel)
199n
Galen
99, 243
gardens of Giacomo da Modone
10, 41–42, 171
gardens of Sant’Ambrogio
4, 6, 7, 42n, 75, 163
gardens of Santa Valeria
42n
Garin, Eugenio
19
Gaul
125, 125n
Gauls
129
Genoa
16, 31n, 41, 46, 235
Genoese (adj.)
41, 46n, 49, 50
Genoese (people)
235
Gentile da Fabriano
17, 255, 255n
geometry
13, 207
Germans (or Germani)
129, 129n
Germany
125
Ghibellines
135
Giacomo da Modone
163n
character in Uberto Decembrio’s De re publica libri IV
4, 10, [11], 14, 41, 163, [165], [171], [179], [185], [193], [215], [221], [243], [257]
Giotto di Bondone
17, 62, 255
Giovanni da Siena (engineer)
255n
Giovanni da Siena (painter)
255, 255n
Giovanni da Viterbo
Liber de regimine civitatum
20
Giovanni dell’Orologio. See Dondi dell’Orologio, Giovanni
Giovanni di Paolo
255n
Giovannolo da Mandello
43n
Glaucon (character in Plato’s Republic)
4, 7
Gnatho (character in Terence’s Eunuchus)
64n
God
12, 14, 27, 33, 46, 64, 95, 99, 101, 103, 109, 115, 117, 125, 133, 135, 137, 139, 175, 187n, 191, 193, 223, 225
god (or deity)
6, 71, 73, 171, 181
Gorgias (philosopher)
77, 119, 243
Gracchus, Gaius Sempronius
133
Gracchus, Tiberius Sempronius
133, 197
grammar (Greek and Latin)
13, 205, 207, 211, 213
Greece
17, 171, 173, 235, 243
Greek (adj.)
4, 16, 39, 59, 65, 77, 129, 147n, 243n
language
2, 7, 18, 37, 38–41, 47, 57, 62, 79, 109, 173, 205, 239, 253
Greeks
38, 38n, 40, 109, 129, 131, 159, 163, 171, 189, 207, 225, 237, 241, 243, 245, 247, 253
Guarino Veronese
40
Guelfs
135
Gyges
7, 7n, 95, 95n
Hankins, James
19n, 23, 37, 50
Hannibal
14, 163, 203, 221, 221n
Hecato
189
Helen
197, 197n
Helicon
171
Hercules
6, 73, 157, 171, 225
Hercynian Forest
127
Hesiod
11, 179
Hildegard of Bingen
39n
Hippocrates
243
Hispania
159
Holy Nail, ceremony of the
54n
Homer
11, 38n, (plural) 44, 179, 243
Iliad
243n
Horace
4, 11, 131n, 201, 237, 255
Ars poetica
17n, 32n
Satires
31n, 153n
Hortensius Hortalus, Quintus
75n
Hypsicratea
197
Ianziti, Gary
54n
Iapyx
243
Illyrian Sea
125
See also Adriatic Sea
India
123
Insubrium
127
See also Seprio
International Gothic style
255n
Ireland
125
Ippia
197, 197n
Isidore of Seville
Etymologiae or Origines
95n
Isocrates
243
Istria
125
Italian (adj.)
[79n]
language
63, 233n
See also vernacular
religion
137
Italic
tribe
69
Italy
71, 125, 127, 129, 159, 163, 189, 243
Iubilus, Marcus
251, 251n
Jacobins
6n
Jesus
64
See also Christ
Jews
139, 139n
Job (prophet)
181n
book of
103n
John of Salisbury
Policraticus
28
Jovinian heretics
139
Jugurthine War
159
Julia (Caesar’s daughter)
197
Julian Alps
127
Julius Caesar. See Caesar, Gaius Julius
Julius Paris
epitome of Valerius Maximus’ Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri
161n
Jupiter (god)
64
Jupiter (planet)
207
justice (Gr. δικαιοσύνη)
4–5, 6–7, 10, 17, 18, 19, 21, 25, 26–28, 29, 34, 36, 47, 53, 79, 81, 83, 89–105, 109, 111, 113, 117, 123, 137, 149–151, 167, 177, 179, 209, 237, 239, 245, 247, 249, 251, 255, 257
cosmic
19
definition of
5, 6–7, 26–27, 89, 91
divine
10, 10n
examples of
247–249
eye of the soul
113
first office of
149, 183
foundation of the commonwealth
27–28, 83, 89, 171, 237
holy
[27], 33
human
10, 10n, 19, 91
origin of
93
Platonic model of
10n
Justinian I
10, 14, 32, 46n, 99, 227
Digest
171, 173n
Juvenal, Decimus Junius
4, 10, 11, 177, 189, 213, 225, 227, 231
Satires
13, 157n, 197
Kaiser, Cristian
41
Keyes, Clinton W.
34n
Lacedaemon
241, 251
Lacedaemonians
151, 197, 253
See also Laconians and Spartans
Laconians
131, 185
See also Lacedaemonians and Spartans
Lactantius
34
Landulf of Saint Paul
Historia Mediolanensis
6n
Lar (and Lares)
249n
Latin (adj.)
3, 4, 13, 16, 39, 41, 42, 47, 51, 54, 55, 57, 58, 65, 77, 133n, 159, 163, 181, 233n, 249, 253n
Latini, Brunetto
Livre du Trésor
20
Latin language
3, 19, 21, 31, 38, 39, 41, 47, 50, 60, 64n, 79, 187, 205, 239, 245, 249, 253
archaic
64
classical (or ancient)
39, 62, 63, 64, 64n
ecclesiastical
64
humanist
63, 64
medieval
61, 63, 64, 65
Latins
38, 47, 109, 203, 241
Laufella
197, 197n
law
5, 6, 10–11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 26, 28, 33, 34, 70, 73, 79, 81, 83, 87, 91, 93, 99, 131, 133, 143, 149, 171n, 173, 175, 177, 191, 225, 227, 229, 231, 233, 237, 239, 249
Agrarian
83
basic
36
canon
10, 18, 175, 237
civil
10, 18, 101, 173, 237
Corn
83
divine
139
eternal and unchangeable
34
holy
121, 139
human
6, 79, 245
Marriage
83
municipal
10, 17, 173, 175, 239
of nations
10, 173, [175], 191
of society
149
of the Twelve Tables
83, 173
praetorian
239
primitive natural (or nature’s)
10, 115, 171, 191
public
83
Roman
32, 46n, 173
unwritten
10, 175
written
9, 10, 141
Lazio
221n
Leonardo Aretino. See Bruni, Leonardo
Leontini
119, 243
Leontius Pilatus
38n
Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius
203
Libya
123
Liguria
42, 53, 69, 75, 125, 127, 135, 221
Ligurians
163
Lindos
241n
Lingones
129
Liutprand
233, 233n
Livy
4, 8, 14, 23, 23n, 81n, 125, 125n, 127, 127n, 129, 129n, 221, 221n
Historiae
125n, [127]
Locrians
249
Lombards
233
Lombard school
209n
Lombardy
1n, 38, 43, 52
Loschi, Antonio
1, 21, 33, 40
Lucan
4, 10, 11, 23, 133, 149, 177, 179, 179n
Pharsalia
11, 23n, 32, 133n, 179n
Lucius III, pope
De novi operis nunciatione
175n
Lydia
95, 241, 241n
Lysias
3
Macedon
163, 243
Machaon
[243], 243n
Machiavelli, Niccolò
20n
Maelius, Spurius
133
Maeotian marshes
125
Maggiore, Lake
127
Magna Graecia
71
Magnani, Bernardino
145
Mai, Angelo
[79n]
Maineri, Maino de
16, 237
Mallius Maximus, Gnaeus
233n
Manlius, Gaius
231, 233, 233n
Manlius Imperiosus Torquatus, Titus
161
Mantegazza, Agnese
41
Mantua
69
Marazzi, Caterina
1
Marcellus, Marcus Claudius
163
Marco Genovese
43n, 44
Marius, Gaius
189
Mars (planet)
207
Martesana
127
Martin V, pope
2, 51, 139
Martini, Simone
255n
Martin of Tours, Saint
52
Mary, Virgin
64
Annunciation to the
[199], 199n
mathematics
243
Matthias (apostle)
139
Mauritania
123
Mausolus
197
McManus, Stuart M.
31n
Medea
197, 197n
Medici, Cosimo deʾ
50
medicine
16, 85, [91], [99], 101, [183], 185, 237, 243
Mediolanum
127, 129
Mela, Marcus Annaeus
179n
melancholic man. See four humors theory
Mercury (planet)
207
Messalina
197, 197n
Messenia
163n
Messius, Quintus
161, 161n
Metellus Macedonicus, Quintus Caecilius
161n
Metellus Numidicus, Quintus Caecilius
133, 159
Methoni (Gr. Μεθώνη, It. Modone)
62n, 163n
Michelino (or Michele) of Pavia. See Molinari da Besozzo, Michelino
Middle Ages
8, 10, 13n, 19, 40, 60, 60n, 63n
Milan
1–2, 3, 4n, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21, 29, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 42, 42n, 51, 52, 54n, 55, 56, 69, [71], [73], 75n, 77n, [79], [99], 127, 129n, [135–137], 139n, 165, [168], 171, [189], 218, [229], 229n, [235], 237, [239]
Cathedral
2, 51
foundation of
8, 37, 125–129
mistress and mirror of all Liguria
42, 69
Petrarch’s stay in
1, [4], [38–39], 42n, 171n
site of
5, 8, 37, 37n, 123–127
Milanese (adj.)
38, 44n, 46, 54
citizens (or people)
9, 22, 129, [175], [183], [189], [195]
duchy. See duchy of Milan
Miletus
241
military artifice (Gr. στρατηγήμα)
163
See also stratagem
Minerva
75, 131, 145
Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus, Lucius
161
Minyan (adj.)
197
Mithridates
197
modesty (Gr. εὐταξία)
3, 6, 83, 109, [121], 137, 153, 157, 187, 189, [191], 195, 199, [213], 231, 247
Molinari da Besozzo, Michelino
1, 13, 209, 209n, 255, 255n
Montemagno, Buonaccorso da
33
De nobilitate
33
moon
207, 243
moral philosophy (Gr. ἠθική)
[5], [6], [8], [10–11], 17, [20], [38], [47], [71], [77], [79], 241, 245
Morigia, Leone
62n, 73n, 115n, 153n, 183n
character in Uberto Decembrio’s De re publica libri IV
4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 36, 73, 75, 77, 87, 89, 91, 99, 105, 113, 117, 123, 129, [145], 147, 155, 157, 157n, 163, 179, 209, 213, [215], [221], [257]
Morigia, Simone
62n, 73n
character in Uberto Decembrio’s De re publica libri IV
4, 5, 6, [7], 13, [14], 27, 73, 75, 77, 79, 89, 91, 105, 117, 123, 129, [145], 147, 155, 157, 163, 211, [215], [221], [257]
Moses
193n
book of
12n, 193
See also Pentateuch
Mucius Scevola, Quintus
189, 239
music
13, 38n, 91, [183], 185, 207
Myson
241n
Myth of Er
18, 48, 257
Mytilene
241
Naevius, Quintus
233, 233n
Naples
16, 16n, 42, 43, 55, 56, 56n, 235
natural philosophy (Gr. φυσική)
50, 183, [239], 241, 243
Navius, Quintus
233n
Nelli, Francesco
4n
Nemean lion
73
Niccoli, Niccolò
25, 32n, 39
Novara
1
Numantia
159
occasion (Gr. εὐκαιρία)
189
οἰκονομική. See economics
Old Testament
181n
See also Bible and Vulgate
Olgiati, Antonio
55
Oliari, Bartolomeo
31n
ὀλιγαρχική. See oligarchy
oligarchy (Gr. ὀλιγαρχική [πολιτεία])
9, 129, 131
Olympic Games
16, 235
Olympus, Mount
235
Ovid
4, 8, 69, 69n, 139, 199, 213, 253
Ars amatoria
199n, 213n
Padua
46, 217, 237
Paduan
42
Paeligni
69n
Paelignan (adj.)
69
pagan (adj.)
6, 75, 223
paganism
[64], [75], 115n, [137], [179n], [223], [257]
pagans
75, 137
Palatine Hill (Rome)
75n
Palmieri, Matteo
Vita civile
20
Pamphylia
257
Πανδέκται
173
Panigarola family
17, 239
Papias
Elementarium doctrinae
65
Papirius Cursor, Lucius
161
Paris (city)
12n
Paris, Julius. See Julius Paris
Parrhasius
17, 255, 255n
Patarenes
139, 139n
Paulus Diaconus
233n
Paulus, Lucius Aemilius
30, 163
Pavia
1–2, 16, 52, 56, 145, 209, 233, 233n, 237, 255
Pavian (adj.)
1, 16
Library. See Visconti Library
Pecuniola, Publius Aurelius
161n
Pelignian
69
Peloponnese
163n
Penates
179n
Peni
129, 129n
Pennine pass
129n
Pentateuch (or Torah)
193n
Deuteronomy
193n
Exodus
193n
Genesis
12n, 193n
Leviticus
193n
Numbers
193n
Periander
241, 241n
Peripatetics
115
Perseus of Macedon
163n
Perugia
221, 237
Peter, Saint
237n
Petilius Spurinus, Quintus
163
Petrarch (or Petrarca), Francesco
1, 4n, 16, 17, 18, 34, 38, 39, 41–46, 47, 56, 58, 59, 60n, 61, 62, 62n, 64, 171, 171n, 209n, 255n
Contra eum qui maledixit Italie
38
De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia
38
De viris illustribus
62n
latin poem to Barbato da Sulmona
42n
Res familiares
41, 43
Res seniles
41, 42, 55, 56
uncollected letters
43
Phaedra
197, 197n
Phalaris
189
phlegmatic man. See four humors theory
φρόνησις. See prudence
φυσική. See physics
Piacentini, Angelo
3n
Piacenza
52, 237
Piccolomini, Enea Silvio
16, 16n
De liberis educandis
16n
Pietro da Castelletto
209n
Pilatus, Leontius. See Leontius Pilatus
Pindar
101, 101n
Pirene
241, 241n
Pisa (Greece)
235
Pisa (Italy)
2, 16, 61, 65, 235
Pisanello
31
Piso Frugi, Lucius Calpurnius
161
Pittacus
241, 251
Pizolpasso, Francesco
31n, 37n
Plancus, Gaius
197, 197n
Plancus, Marcus
197, 197n
Platina. See Sacchi, Bartolomeo
Plato
3–14, 16, 17–23, 25, 26, 28, 29, 32, 37, 39–41, 44, 46, 47–50, 52, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 64–65, 71, 77n, 79, 95, 101, 119–121, 129–131, 141, 141n, 143, 147, 149, 151, 155–157, 177, 179, 205–207, 209–211, 239, 241, 243, 251, 253, 253n, 257
arithmetic
65n, 205–207
banning of poets and painters
8, 26n, 32n, 47, [50n], 52, 253, 253n
community of goods, wives, and children
9, 40, 47, 48–49, [50n], 52, 119–121, 157–159, 177n
dialectic
65n, 241
five types of regimes
9, 37, 37n, 129–131
gold, silver, and bronze/iron men
9, 11, 22, 187, 239
‘healthy’ and ‘fevered’ city
6, 25, 52n, 81–89
metaphysics
8, [48], [119]
philosopher-king
9, 11, 20, [137], [139–143], [177], [183–185], [187], [201], [209], [223], [231], [235], [239], [251], [253]
theory of the transmigration of souls
40, 47–48, [119], [257]
two rules (or warnings) of
21, 141
utopia
3, 46, 47
Works
19, 39, 50, 79
Apology of Socrates
8, 50
Crito
50
Gorgias
50
Letters
23
Laws
8, 28
Phaedo
39n, 50
Phaedrus
8, 50
Protagoras
241n
Republic
3, 4–5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 37, 39, 40, 41, 46, 47, 50, [50n], 52, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 60n, 62, 62n, 64, 79, 95n, 101n, [119–121], 147, [155], 179, 211n, 253n, [257]
Symposium
12, 12n, 50
Timaeus
19, 40
Platonic
3, 6, 8, 9, 10n, 14, 19, 40, 46, 48, 52n, 65n
Platonist
8
Plautius Hypsaeus, Marcus
197n
Plautius Numida, Gaius
197n
Plautus
84
Pliny the Elder
Historia naturalis
95n
Plutarch
Life of Pyrrhus
249n
Pompey the Great
197
Pontic Gulf
159
Pontus
197
Porta Romana (Milan)
2
Portia
197
Postumius, Lucius
161, 161n
Postumius Tubertus, Aulus
161n
Prague
1
Priene
241n
Priscian
60
prudence (Gr. φρόνησις)
7, 83, 109, 111, [113], [137], [147], 167, 187, 193, 197, [199], [223], [229], 245
See also wisdom
Publilius Syrus
119
Pyrrhus
249, 249n
Pythagoras
119, 241
Pythagorean (adj.)
8, 48, 71
Pythagoreans
243
Quintilian
41
Institutio oratoria
41
Ramus, Peter
47
rape of the Sabine women
[81], 81n
rational philosophy
17, 241, 253
Regulus, Marcus Attilius
23n, 30
rhetoric
13, 17, 45, 64n, 183, 185, 205, 241
Riccardo da Saliceto
237
Rimini
25
Roman (adj.)
9, 14, 15, 22, 28, 32, 73, 131, 139, 159, 163, 197, 203, 223, 233, 249
commonwealth
159
discipline
14, 23, 159, 163
empire
159
law. See law, Roman
people
43, 173, 227, 251
republic
19, 21, 23, [28], 29, 32
state
30, 131
Romans
1, 14, 75, 81, 129, 159, 173, 179, 197, 203, 207, 221, 223, 225, 227, 229, 231, 235, 247, 249
Rome
14, 16, 17, 34, 37, 83, 127, 129, 129n, 131, 139, 179, 189, 221, 235, 251
Romulus
81, 159
Rostra
251
Rupilius, Publius
159n
Ruthenia
125
Rutilianus, Fabius
161, 161n
Rutilius, Publius
159
Rutilius Rufus, Publius
133, 231
Sacchi, Bartolomeo
34
De vera nobilitate
34
Sallust
43
Bellum Iugurthinum
43
De coniuratione Catilinae
22
Salluvii
62n, 129
Salutati, Coluccio
1, 29, 30, 31, 31n, 32, 32n, 37n, 39, 40, 40n
De tyranno
31n
letters
31n, 40n
Samnites
15, 229
Samos
241
sanguine man. See four humors theory
Sardanapalus
225, 225n
satirists
183, 255
Saturn
207
Saufeia
197n
Scaevola. See Mucius Scaevola, Quintus
Scaurus, Gaius Aurelius
231
Scaurus, Marcus Aemilius
223
Schmitt, Carl
36, 36n
Scholastic (adj.)
77n
Aristotelianism
38
disputation
77n
unknown scholar
38, 40, 47
school of Chartres
40
Scipio Aemilianus, Publius Cornelius
159, 251, 257
Scipio Africanus, Publius Cornelius
14, 159, 221, 251, 257
Scipio Nasica, Publius Cornelius
223, 223n
Scipio, Publius Cornelius
203
Scythia
125
Second Rome
37, 127, 127n
Segovesus
125–127
Senate (Roman)
15, 28, 161, 163, 177, 189, 249n, 251
Seneca, Lucius Anneus (or Seneca the Younger)
4, 10, 30, 38, 41, 42, 47, 52, 64, 167, [179], 179n, 199, 207
dialogues
23n
Epistulae ad Lucilium
3, 167n
Octavia
199n
Senones
125, 129
Seprio
127
See also Insubrium
Sette, Guido
43n, 46n, 171n
seven sages of Greece
173, 241, 241n, [243]
shrine of Ambrose
73, 77, 99
See also Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan
Sicily
159, 161, 163, 243
Siena
2, 255
Sienese (adj.)
255
Simonides
7n
Sirens
143
Skinner, Quentin
20
Socrates
49, 119, 141, 177, 225, 243, 245
character in Plato’s Republic
7, 7n, 52, 79, 247, 253n
Solon
173, 241
σοφία. See wisdom
Sophocles
11, 179
σωφροσύνη. See temperance
Spartans
251
See also Lacedaemonians and Laconians
statue of Bacchus in the Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio
6, 6n, 73
Stoic (adj.)
7, 12
Stoics
115, 131, 169, 243, 247
stratagem
149–151, 163, 205
See also military artifice
στρατηγήματα. See military artifice and stratagem
Strozzi, Nanni
24
Suetonius
De vita Caesarum
57n
Sulla, Lucius Cornelius
189, 203
Sulmona
42, 69
sun
113, 123, 207, 243
Syracuse
163
Tanais
125
Taranto
243
Tarquinius Priscus
129
Tarquinius Superbus, Lucius
131
Taurine passes
127, 127n
Taurus, Mount
159
temperance (Gr. σωφροσύνη)
7, 17, 109, 111, 141, 153, 167, 231, 245–247
Tempier, Étienne
12n
temple of Janus
235
temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus
251
temple of the nourishing Virgin
139
See also Milan Cathedral
Terence
56n, 64, 89n
Eunuchus
64
Testaccio, Mount
235
Thales
241
Themison
245
Theophrastus
48n, 119
Theopompus
251
Thessaly
235
Thierry of Chartres
40
Thomas Aquinas, Saint
8, 10n, 20, 28, 34, 34n, 40, 119n
commentary on Aristotle’s Physics
107n
Summa Theologiae
34n
Thrace
125
Thurii
249n
Ticino Bridge
237
Ticino River
14, 127, 203, 221, 233
timocracy (Gr. τιμοκρατική [πολιτεία])
9, 37n, 129, [131]
τιμοκρατική. See timocracy
Titius, Gaius
161
Titus Livius. See Livy
Torah. See Pentateuch
Trajan
17, 249, 249n
Trasimene, Lake
14, 221
Trebbia River
14, 221
Trebia
161, 161n
Treviglio
2, 42, 43, 54, 54n
Trojan War
243
True Light, the. See Christ
Tuscany
221n
Tuscia
221, 221n
Tusculum
75n
tyranny
9, 15, 21–22, 32, 36, 38, 111, 131, 133, 135, [217]
Tyre
249, 249n
Uguccione da Pisa
61
Magnae derivationes
65
Ulpian
7, 27, 171n
Umbria
221n
Umbrians
129
University of Bologna
237, 237n
University of Padua
237
University of Pavia
16, 51, 52, 73n, 237, 239
Valerius Maximus
4, 9, 10, 15, 17, 23, 137, 159, 159n, 161n, 163n, 177n, 189, 197, 197n, 233n, 239n, 249n, 251n
Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri (or De dictis et factis memorabilibus)
23n, 62
Valerius Publicola, Publius
23n, 131
Varro, Marcus Terentius
Saturae Menippeae
64
Venetian (adj.)
163n
Venetians
125, 235
Venice
2, 16, 43, 235
Venus
207
Verbano, Lake
127
Vercelli
41
Vergerio, Pier Paolo
37n, 40, 40n
vernacular (i.e., Italian)
39, 60
See also Italian language
Verona
15, 62n, 107n, 129, 229
Vigevano
1, 13, 46n
Virgil
15, (plural) 44, 56n, 57, 69, 81, 95, 181n, 201, 205, 213, 227, 255
Aeneid
43, [95n]
Georgics
81n
Virgin Mary. See Mary, Virgin
Visconti, Bernabò
41, 43n
Visconti, Caterina
41
Visconti court
53–54, 255
Visconti duchy (or state). See duchy of Milan
Visconti family
18n, 28, 32n, 33, 41, 44n, 237
‘plenitude of power’
18, 28, 37
Visconti, Filippo Maria
2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 13, [16], [20], 21, 31, 32, 32n, 36–37, 40, 51–54, 57, 69, 77n, [119], [135], [167], [218], [237–239]
Decree on the Crime of Lèse-majesté
36, 54
Visconti, Gabriele Maria
41
Visconti, Galeazzo II
16, 237
Visconti, Gian Galeazzo
1, 2, 10, 15, 16, 19n, 21, 32n, 33, 41, 44n, 46n, 107n, 135, [167], 209n, [237]
Visconti, Giovanni II (archbishop of Milan)
32n
Visconti, Giovanni (archbishop and lord of Milan)
15, 18, 75, 75n, 229, 229n
Visconti, Giovanni Maria
2, 21, 77n, 135
Visconti Library
16, 51, 53, 217, 239
Visconti, Luchino
18, 75n
Visconti Milan. See Milan
Vittorino da Feltre
16n
Vulgate
139n
See also Bible and Old Testament
Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia
1
William of Conches
40
William of Moerbeke
39, 39n
Latin translation of Aristotle’s Historia animalium
39
wisdom (Gr. σοφία)
4, [6], 7, 9, [14], 15, [29], [38], 69, 77, [81], 91, [93], 101, 103, 105, 109, [113], [115–117], [123], [133], 143, [147], [149], 167, 171, [173], 185, [189], 205, [207–209], [221], 223, [225], 231, [235], 241, [253]
See also prudence
Xenophilus
243
Xenophon
251
Oeconomicus
21, 51, 251–253
Zaleucus
249
Zanella, Antonio
42, 57
Zeno
243
Zeuxis
17, 255, 255n