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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Many hands and minds contributed to the building of the Basilica of St. Peter, and many have contributed to telling its story. My thanks to F. Joseph Spieler, Wendy Wolf, Hilary Redmon, Douglas Steel, Dom Julian Stead, O.S.B., Rita Dwyer Scotti, Evans Chigounis, and Francesca Chigounis. Thank you also, to Dr. B. J. Cook, Curator of Medieval and Early Modern Coinage at the British Museum, the Frederick Allen Lewis Room of the New York Public Library, Pina Pasquantonio of the American Academy of Rome, and to the scholars, historians, and art historians whom I consulted. If any is slighted, it is unintentional.
INDEX
Admonet nos suscepti (papal bull)
Adrian VI, Pope
Age of Discovery
see also New World
Agrippina, Roman Empress
Alberti, Leone Battista,
Alexander VI, Pope (Rodrigo Borgia)
Alexander VII, Pope (Fabio Chigi)
&n
bsp; Alfred, King of England
Alighieri, Dante see Dante Alighieri alum
ambulatories
Ammianus Marcellinus
Anastasius
Annales (Tacitus)
Apollo Belvedere
apostolic secretaries
aqueducts
arches
barrel vaults and
dome as series of
architecture, architects:
Alberti’s theory of
as artists
classical book on
as engineers
humanism and
Vitruvius’s views on
Aretino, Pietro
Aristotle
art, artists
as integral to politics
rivalries between
medals as business cards of
as traveling salesmen
assassination plots
papal elections and
Athens, ancient
Attila the Hun
Augustinians
Augustus, Roman Emperor
Austria
Avignon, papacy in (Babylonian Captivity)
Baldacchino
banks, bankers
Chigi as
barbarians
Barberini, Francesco
Barberini, Maffeo, see Urban VIII, Pope
Baroque
theatricality of
Barozzi, Jacopo (da Vignola) see also Vignola
Basilica of Maxentius (Temple of Peace)
basilicas:
ancient Roman
see also specific basilicas
Bayezid II, Sultan
Bazzi, Giovanni Antonio, see Sodoma
Beauvais, Gothic cathedral of
Becket, Thomas à
Belvedere
Belvedere Court
Bembo, Pietro
Benediction Balcony
Benedict XIV, Pope
Bernini, Gianlorenzo
Alexander VII’s relationship with
Baldacchino of
bell towers of
Cathedra Petri of
colonnades and piazza of
comparison with Michelangelo
in France
prodigy as
Rome as his workshop
Urban VIII’s relationship with
workshop of
Bernini, Luigi
Bernini, Paolo
Bernini, Pietro
Betto, Bernardino di, see Pinturicchio
Biagio da Cesena
Biancho, Giuseppe
Bibbiena, Maria
Bologna
Julius II’s victory in
Michelangelo in
Boniface VIII, Pope
Bordighera
Borghese, Camillo see Paul V
Borghese, Oratorio
Borghese, Scipione Caffarelli
Borgia, Cesare
Borgia, Rodrigo, see Alexander VI, Pope
Borgia Apartment
Borromini, Francesco
Bracciolini, Poggio
Bramante, Donato
Basilica designs of
Belvedere Court and
commissions of
competing with Florentine artists
death of
as experimenter
at foundation-stone ceremony
Guarna’s satire about
Julius II’s selection of
Leo X’s relationship with
as Michelangelo’s nemesis
in Milan
obelisk problem and
Raphael as protégé of
successor selected for
Tempietto of
as the wrecker
Bramante & Co.
Bramantino (Bartolomeo Suardi)
bricks
Bridget, Saint
bronze
Browning, Robert
Brunelleschi, Filippo
Buonarroto di Ludovico Simoni
Buonarroto, Michelangelo see Michelangelo Buonarroti
Burckhardt, Jacob
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
Byzantium
Caedwalla
Caligula, Roman Emperor
Calixtus III, Pope
Cambrai, Treaty of (Ladies’ Peace)
Camera Apostolica, 80
Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer)
Cappella dell’Imperatore
Cappella del Re di Francia (Chapel of the King of France)
Carrara
Castel Sant’Angelo
as popes’ refuge
Castiglione, Baldassare
Catari, Giulio
Cathedra Petri
Cellini, Benvenuto
central plans
Cesari, Giuseppe (Cavaliere d’Arpino)
Chapel of St. Gregory
Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V, Emperor
Charles VIII, King of France
Charles the Bald
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chigi, Agostino
as banker
as il Magnifico
Chigi, Fabio, see Alexander VII, Pope
Christians, Christianity
Constantine’s legitimizing of
persecution of
Cibo, Franceschetto
Circus of Caligula
Civitavecchia
Clement VII, Pope (Giulio de’ Medici)
Charles V crowned by
Charles V’s reconciliation with
death of
Fabbrica organized by
Michelangelo’s relationship with
Sack of Rome and
Clement VIII, Pope
Clement IX, Pope
Colbert, Jean-Baptiste
College of Cardinals
Collegium LX Virorum
Colonna, Cardinal Pompeo
Colonna, Vittoria
Colonna family
Colosseum
Columbus, Christopher
columns
see also specific styles
concinnitas
concrete
Condivi, Ascanio
on Michelangelo-Clement VII relationship
on Michelangelo’s reconciliation with Julius II
on Sistine Chapel
Confessio di San Pietro
Baldacchino for
Constantine I, Roman Emperor
basilica of, see St. Peter’s Basilica, first
capital moved by
Christianity legitimized by
Constantinople
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Corinthian style
Cortona, Luca da, see Signorelli, Luca
Council of Trent
nepotism and
Counter-Reformation
Baroque art and
Sixtus V and
cross, bronze
cross, in church designs
Greek
Latin
cross, Constantine’s sighting of
Curia
purchase of offices in
reform of
Dante Alighieri
David (Michelangelo)
de Grassis, Paris
De re aedificatoria (Alberti)
Diocletian, Roman Emperor
dividing wall
Divine Comedy (Dante)
domenica in albis (“Sunday in white”)
dome of St. Peter’s
dome and cross atop
of Antonio the Younger
of Bramante
completion of
copper ball and bronze cross in
of della Porta
double shells in
iron bands of
of Michelangelo
ruining of view of
domes
of Duomo
of Pantheon
as series of arches
Donation of Constantine
Doric columns, Doric order
Egidio da Viterbo
El Greco
Eliot, George
encyclicals, papal
&
nbsp; engineering
England
English Church
Erasmus, Desiderius
Julius exclusus of
Ethelwulf, King
Etruscans
excommunication
Exsurge domine (papal bull)
“fabbrica di San Pietro, la,”
Fabbrica di San Pietro nel Vaticano
as congregation
Michelangelo’s relations with
Michelangelo’s views on
Sampietrini of
Farnese, Alessandro, see Paul III, Pope
Farnese, Giulia (La Bella)
Felice (Julius II’s daughter)
Ferdinand, King of Spain
Fifth Lateran Council
Florence
Duomo in
Medici popes and
Michelangelo in
Pazzi conspiracy in
Renaissance in
Sangallo’s return to
Signoria of
Uffizi Gallery in
Fontana, Carlo
Fontana, Domenico
Fontana, Giovanni
forgery
Fornarina, La (Raphael)
fornarina, la (Raphael’s mistress)
Forum, Roman
Founding of the Vatican Library by Sixtus IV, The (Melozzo da Forli)
Fountain of the Four Rivers
France
Charles V vs.
Julius II’s exile in
see also Avignon
Francesco, Girolamo de
Francis I, King of France
Galileo Galilei
Germany
Ghinucci, Stefano
Giamberti, Antonio da, see Sangallo
Antonio da, the Elder, and Sangallo
Antonia da, the Younger
Giamberti, Giuliano, see Sangallo
Giuliano da
Gibbon, Edward
Giocondo, Fra Giovanni
God
glory of
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
gold
New World
Gothic cathedrals
Great Schism
Greeks, ancient
Gregorovius
Gregory XIII, Pope
Gregory XIV, Pope
Gregory the Great, Pope
Guarna, Andrea
Guicciardini, Francesco
Guicciardini, Luigi
guilds
Gutenberg, Johann
Hadrian, Roman Emperor
Hanno (white elephant)
Hapsburg empire
Heemskerck, Maerten van
Helena
hell
Henry II, King of England
Henry VII, King of England
Henry VIII, King of England
Heraclitus
Holy Office
humanism
Huns
indulgences
Julius II’s granting of
Leo X and
Luther’s criticism of
Inferno (Dante)
Inghirami, Tomasso
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