304.
MURDERS in Italy in the sixteenth century, i.

305 _sqq._ MURETUS: his difficulties as a professor in Rome, i.

214, 216.
MURTOLA, Gasparo, attempted assassination of the poet Marino by, ii.

263.
MUSIC, Italian, decadence of, in the sixteenth century, ii.

315; foreign musicians in Rome, 316; the contrapuntal style, 317; licenses allowed to performers, _ib._; the medleys prepared by composers, _ib._; disgraceful condition of Church music, 318; orchestral _ricercari_, 320 _n._; Savonarola's opinion of the Church music of his time, _ib._; musical aptitude of the people, 322; lack of a controlling element of correct taste, _ib._; advent of Palestrina, _ib._; the Congregation for the Reform of Music, 325; rise of the Oratorio, 334; music in England in the sixteenth century, 338; rise of the Opera, 340.
MUSICIANS, Italian, of the seventeenth cenutry, ii.