Mistress of the Vatican (77 page)

299–300, 349
Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 13
tiara, papal, 151, 284
Tiber River, 50, 73, 102–3, 220, 311–12,

320, 353
Timothy, Letters of St. Paul to, 174, 283 Timothy, Saint, 145
Tor de’ Specchi Convent, 60, 204, 244–45,

268–69, 273, 344, 401
Tor di Nona prison, 50, 220, 305,

311–12
Totila the Goth, 252
Trajan, Emperor of Rome, 46 Trastevere, 236, 333–34, 353, 402 Trauttmansdorff, Maximilian von, 234 Trent, Council of (1545–63), 14, 23, 25–26,

57, 89, 391
Trinity Institute of Pilgrims, 259–60 Trivulzio, Giangiacomo, 375 Turks, 189–90, 269, 318
Tuscany, 95, 115, 182, 219, 226, 251, 376,

381, 383 typhoid, 48, 50–51

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, 161
Ulysses
(Joyce), 1
Umbria, 115, 348
Urban VIII, Pope, 73–74, 77, 78, 80, 82,

84–85, 89, 99, 100, 103, 111–12, 115–19, 121–22, 123, 127, 131, 147, 150–51, 183, 190–93, 195, 242, 261, 266, 286, 338, 344, 355, 412

Valençais, Bali de, 5, 170, 296–97 Valerian, Emperor of Rome, 144 Valtellina, 74–75
Vatican:
archives of, 1, 71, 83, 126–27 corruption in, 3, 45, 70, 72, 78, 124,

154–55, 171–73, 182–86, 246–52, 302–9, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314–15, 332, 336–43, 349, 381–89, 396, 412–13
dataries and subdataries of, 246–52, 284,

287, 299, 302–9, 311, 313, 314, 344, 360, 362, 385, 388
legal system of, 89–91, 302–9, 310, 311,

312, 313, 384–89, 395, 404, 412–13 military forces of, 115, 182, 183–84,

188, 190–91, 193, 218–20, 245–46, 313, 338–43
political influence of, 112–15, 233–35,

415
treasury of, 1, 68, 81–82, 115, 118, 124, 131, 166, 182, 198, 245, 315, 318, 332, 334, 336, 356, 367, 368, 377–80, 386–87, 412–13, 414
see also
Papal States
Vatican City, 165–66, 415
Vatican Library, 83, 126–27
Velázquez, Diego, 267–68
Venice, 47, 59, 63, 70, 83, 86, 96, 103, 115,

128, 140, 153–54, 155, 171–72, 179, 190–91, 201, 235, 318, 382, 396 Veronica, Saint, 241
Via dell’Anima, 44, 101, 163, 313
Via Latina, 255–56
Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy, 415 Villa Bel Respiro, 187–88, 207–8, 255, 277,

297, 341, 416
Villa Borghese, 198–99, 200, 206 Villa del Sale, 198

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Index

Villafranca, Count of, 303–4
Villani, Giovanni, 176
Virgil, 67–68
Virgin Mary, 19, 241, 146, 265, 350 Visconti, Teobaldo, 16
Vitellius, Emperor of Rome, 119 Viterbo, 9–43, 44, 51, 54, 56, 75, 105, 110,

163, 166, 210–12, 229, 246, 289, 293–95, 328–30, 333, 354, 395, 401, 403–8, 415–16, 418

Westphalia, Peace of (1648), 233–35, 282,

349 witchcraft, 91, 271

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