and Michelangelo 3,36,41,42,53,56,63,198,271murder 212
Alviano,Bartolomeo d’ 128
Ancona 194
Andrea Luigi(L’Ingegno)94
Angelico,Fra 67
Anghiari,battle of(1440)242;see also Leonardo da VinciAntiochus Epiphanes 190
Apocrypha,the 190,249
Apollo Belvedere 152
Aquinas,Thomas 135,160
Aretino,Pietro 106
Ariosto,Lodovico:
as ambassador of Alfonso d’Este 193,257,261,262depicted by Raphael 210
Orlando furioso 167,193,194,210,243-4,261,262arriccio see fresco painting
Arrotino(‘Knife Grinder)149
Aspertini,Amico 47
Assisi:churches of San Francesco 44
astrology 41,159,197
Attila the Hun 128
Augustine,St 135,160,162
Augustinian Hermits,Order of the 200
Avernus,Lake 161-2,165,167
azurite 62-3,82,100,121
Baglioni,Gianpaolo 29,33
Baglioni,the 94
Baldini,Baldino 253
Bandinelli,Baccio 152
Barbarigo,Agostino,Doge of Venice 199Barna da Siena 49
Basso,Piero 74-5,76
Bayezid II,Sultan 31
Bazzi,Giovanni Antonio(Sodoma)92,107,108,171,209,210Apollo and Marsyas 111-13,113,114
Beck,James 295
Bellini,Giovanni:The Feast of God 259Benivieni,Girolamo 184
Bentivoglio,Giovanni 29,34
Bentivogli,the 39,40,89,167,178,197,212,232,234,256Bernard of Clairvaux 248
Bernardino d’Antonio 40
Bibbiena,Cardinal Bernardo Dovizi da 238,287Bibbiena,Maria da 287,288
Biblia pauperum(‘Poor Man’s Bible’)190Bichiellini,Niccolò 147
Blake,William 292
Boccaccio,Giovanni 86,98,210,226
Decameron 250


