25.
VENETIAN ambassadors' despatches cited: on the manners of the Roman Court in 1565, i.

142, 147; the expulsion of prostitutes from Rome, 146.
VENICE, the Republic of, its possessions in the fifteenth century, i.

9; relations with Spain in 1530, 45; rise of a contempt for commerce in, 49; the constitution of its Holy Office, 190; Concordat with Clement VIII., 193; Tasso at, ii.

19 _sq._; its condition in Sarpi's youth, 185; political indifference of its aristocracy, 186; put under interdict by Paul V., 198.
VENIERO, Maffeo, on Tasso's mental malady, ii.

52, 63.
VERONA, Peter of (Peter Martyr), Italian Dominican Saint of the Inquisition, i.