Benedetto da Maiano (1442–97), 129–130, 230
Benedetto da Rovezzano (1474–1515), 168
Benedict XII (Jacques Fournier), Pope (334–42), 36, 51–52, 53, 57
Benedict XIII (Pedro de Luna), Antipope (1394–1423), 362, 363, 364, 365
Benedictines, 574
Benigno, Cornelio (1515), 508
Benivieni, Antonio (c. 1440–1502), 531–532
Bentivoglio, Giovanni II, lord of Bologna (1469–1506 d. 1508), 333–334, 336, 423, 443
Berengario da Carpi, Iacopo (1470–1530), 531
Berenson, Bernard (1865–$$$$), 455
Bergamo, 197–198, 312
Bernardino da Corte (1499), 190
Bernardino of Siena, St. (1380–1444), 64, 576, 582, 607
Bernardo da Rapallo (1451), 533–534
Berni, Francesco (1496–1535), 376, 623, 625, 654–655
Beroaldo, Filippo (1470–1518), 488
Berruguete, Alonso (1486–1561), 472
Berruguete, Pedro (d. 1503), 343
Bertoldo da Firenze (d. 1491), 95
Bessarion, Joannes (1403–72), 79, 315, 371, 387, 393–394, 538, 569
Biagio da Cesena (1541), 716
bianchi, 3, 229
Bianchi–Ferrari, Francesco de’ (1457–1510), 328
Bibbiena (Bernardo Dovizi: 1470–1521), 320, 344, 345, 477, 485, 489, 490, 510, 513, 515, 517, 540, 598, 701
Bibbiena, Maria (c. 1515), 513
Bible, 379
Bismarck, Otto von (1815–98), 549
Black Death, 28, 29, 30–31, 533
Blacks, see neri
blank verse, 696*
Blois, treaty of, 615–616
blood transfusion, 532
Boccaccini, Boccaccio (c. 1467–1525), 198
Boccaccini, Camillo (1501–46), 198
Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313–75), 10–11, 13, 23, 28–34, 42–44, 46–47, 78, 81, 222, 320, 384, 572, 599
Boccanera, Simone, Doge of Genoa (1339–44; 1356–63), 39
Bocciardo, Giorgio (1494), 409–410
Boiardo, Matteo Maria (1430–94), 11, 128, 270, 271–272, 274
Bologna, 4–5, 237, 333–331, 338, 443, 444–445, 713
Fontana di Nettuno, 713
San Petronio, 335–336, 473, 640
Bologna, Concordat of, 619, 620
Boltraffio, Giovanni (1467–1516), 228
Bombasi, Paolo (1527), 632
Bonfigli, Benedetto (1420–96), 244, 245, 380
Boniface VIII (Benedetto Caetani), Pope (1294–1303), 49, 50, 51, 52, 62, 408–409
Boniface IX (Piero Tomacelli), Pope (1389–1404), 362–363, 364
Bonifazio Veronese de’ Pitati (1487–1553), 311, 669
Bono, Pietro (d. c. 1505), 605
Bonsignori, Francesco (c. 1453–1519), 325
Book of Loves, A (Marquis of Pescara), 585
Book of My Own Life, A (Cardan), 691, 692–693
book collecting, 488, 489
bookkeeping, 71
Bordone, Paris (1500–71), 321, 678, 728
Borgia, Angela, Countess of Sassuolo (1506), 265
Borgia, Caesar (1475–1507), 209–210, 216, 256–257, 286, 343, 344, 355, 396, 405, 407, 408, 411, 412, 413, 414–415, 416–417, 411–428, 430, 431, 432, 433, 436, 437–440, 442, 447, 466, 535, 548–549, 552, 560, 561, 563, 569, 611, 614, 615, 616
Borgia, Giofre (b. 1481), 405, 412
Borgia, Giovanni, Duke of Gandia (d. 1497), 405, 411, 412, 416–417, 418, 429, 439
Borgia, Girolama (d. 1483), 404
Borgia, Lucrezia (1480–1519), 264, 265, 270, 309, 318, 319, 405, 411, 412, 416, 425, 427, 428–433, 436, 438, 439, 440, 444, 584
Borgia, Pedro Luis (d. 1485), 404, 416
Borgia, Rodrigo (1431–1503), see Alexander VI, Pope
Borgo San Sepolcro, 230
Borgognone, Ambrogio (c. 1455–1523), 197
Borromeo, Carlo, St. (1538–84), 711–712
Bosch, Hieronymus (Hieronymus van Aeken: c. 1450–1516), 544
botany, 700
Botticelli, Sandro (1444–1510), 76, 115, 130, 131, 136–139, 140, 162, 397, 468
Birth of Venus, 137–138, 139
Nativity, 139
Primavera, 138, 139
Calumny, 139
Boucher, François (1703–70), 683
Bourbon, Charles, Duke of (1490–1527), 629, 630, 708
Bourbon, Peter II, Duke of (d. 1503), 612
Bourges, Pragmatic Sanction of, 369, 388, 620
Braccio da Montone (c. 1370–1424), 367
Bracciolini, Poggio (1380–1459), 78, 79, 82–84, 129, 193, 350, 367, 371, 377, 378, 387, 495, 526, 571, 572
Bramante (Donato d’Agnolo: 1444–1514), 27, 195–196, 197, 203, 334, 341, 441, 449–450, 451, 457, 459, 460, 497, 503, 505, 507, 651, 720
Brancacci, Rinaldo (d. 1423), 356
Brandano (Bartolommeo Carosi: fl. 1527–29), 630
Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeilles, Seigneur de (c. 1535–1614), 609, 619
Brancacci Chapel, Florence, 100–101, 140
bravi, 590
Bregno, Andrea (1421–1506), 238, 397
Brescia, 198, 712
bribery, 592
Bridget of Sweden, St. (c. 1303–73), 59
Briosco, Andrea (1470–1532), see Riccio
Briosco, Benedetto (1490), 179
Broke, Arthur (d. 1563), 699*
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo: 1502–72), 656, 703
Brunellesco, Filippo (1377–1446), 28, 87–89, 90, 91, 99, 182, 371, 497, 533, 719
dome of Florence duomo, 88, 371, 719
Bruni, Leonardo (1369–1444), 79, 81–82, 83, 84, 96, 350, 351, 371, 377, 579
Bruno, Giordano (1548?–1600), 537, 538, 695, 727
Brusasorci (Domenico del Riccio: 1494–1567), 325, 678
Bucentaur, 290
bullfights, 417–418, 595
Buon the Elder, Bartolommeo (d. c. 1464), 293
Buon the Younger, Bartolommeo (c. 1450–1529), 293
Buon, Giovanni (d. c. 1442), 293
Buoncompagni, Ugo (1502–85), see Gregory XIII, Pope
Buondelmonti, Zanobi (1513), 551
Burchard, Johann (fl. 1481–1513), 408, 427–428
Burckhardt, Jacob (1818–97), 426
Buridan, Jean (d. c. 1359), 223, 225
burning of the vanities (Savonarola), 156–157, 158
business, 282, 590, 649
Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron (1788–1824), 125, 315
C
Caccia, La (Ercole Strozzi), 270
Caesar, Gaius Julius (100–44 B.C.), 42, 439, 606
Caetani, Benedetto (c. 1235–1303), see Boniface VIII, Pope
Cahors, 51
Calandra (Bibbiena), 344, 490, 598, 639
Caldara da Caravaggio, Polidoro (c. 1495–c. 1543), 505
Calepino, Ambrogio (1435–1511), 333
Caliari, Carlo (1570–96), 680
Caliari, Gabriele (1568–1631), 680
Calixtus III (Alfonso Borgia), Pope (1455–58), 353, 382–383, 404, 409
calligraphy, 168, 314, 317, 357, 379
Calvin, Jean (1509–64), 279
Calvinists, 711
Calvo, Fabio (1515), 496, 507
Cambrai, League of (1508), 288, 292, 443, 616–619
Cambrai, treaty of, 635
Campanella, Tommaso (1568–1639), 695
Campano, Giovanni, 588
Campi, Antonio (d. c. 1591?), 198
Campi, Bernardino (1522–c. 1590), 198
Campi, Galeazzo (c. 1477–1536), 198