6 _sqq._ SANTA CROCE, Ersilia di, first wife of Francesco Cenci, i.

347.
SANVITALE, Eleonora, Tasso's love-affair with, ii.

48.
SARDINIA, the island of, a Spanish province, i.

45.
SARPI, Fra Paolo: his birth and parentage, ii.

185; his position in the history of Venice, 186; his physical constitution, 189; moral temperament, 190; mental perspicacity, 191; discoveries in magnetism and optics, 192; studies and conversation, 193; early entry into the Order of the Servites, _ib._; his English type of character, 194; denounced to the Inquisition, 195; his independent attitude, 196; his great love for Venice, 197; the interdict of 1606, 198; Sarpi's defence of Venice against the Jesuits, 199 _sqq._; pamphlet warfare, 201; importance of this episode, 202; Sarpi's theory of Church and State, 203; boldness of his views, 205; compromise of the quarrel of the interdict, _ib._; Sarpi's relations with Fra Fulgenzio, 207; Sarpi warned by Schoppe of danger to his life, 208; attacked by assassins, 209; the _Stilus Romanae Curiae_, 211; history of the assassins, 212; complicity of the Papal Court, 213; other attempts on Sarpi's life, 214 _sq._; his opinion of the instigators, 216; his so called heresy, 218; his work as Theologian to the Republic, 219; his minor writings, 221; his opposition to Papal Supremacy, _ib._; the _History of the Council of Trent_, 222; its sources, 223; its argument, 224; deformation, not reformation, wrought by the Council, 225; Sarpi's impartiality, 226; was Sarpi a Protestant?
228; his religious opinions, 229; views on the possibility of uniting Christendom, 230; hostility to ultra-papal Catholicism, 231; critique of Jesuitry, 233; of ultramontane education, 235; the Tridentine Seminaries, 235; Sarpi's dread lest Europe should succumb to Rome, 237; his last days, 238; his death contrasted with that of Giordano Bruno, 239 _n._; his creed, 239; Sarpi a Christian Stoic, 240.
SARPI, citations from his writings, on the Papal interpretation of the Tridentine decrees, i.