42.
MEDA, Caterina da (waiting-woman of Virginia de Leyva), murder of, i.

322.
MEDIAEVAL habits, survival of, in Italy in the sixteenth century, i.

306.
MEDICI, de', family of: their advances towards Despotism, i.

10; violent deaths of members, 382 _sqq._; eleven murdered in a half-century, 387.
-- -Alessandro, Duke of Florence, i.

19, 46, 388.
-- -Cosimo, i.