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Paganino, Alessandro, 419

Paglia, story of the practical joke played in the inn at, 157-9

Painting: affectation in, 37; variety of, 50; the courtier to be proficient in, 65; praise of, 65-70; discussion as to the comparative merits of painting and sculpture, 67-8, 349-50

Paleologus, Margarita, Duchess of Mantua, 414

Paleotto, Annibal, 134, 135, 364, 367 Camillo, 138, 147, 367 Vincenzo, 364

Pallas, 197, 356

Pallavicino, Count Gaspar, 12, 13, 14, 23, 27, 30, 41, 63, 64, 85, 88, 100, 104, 105, 107, 108, 112, 118, 129, 142, 143, 144, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 172, 173-4, 175, 178, 181-2, 185, 186, 190, 193, 194, 197, 199, 201, 202, 203, 206, 207, 209-10, 213, 218, 221, 223, 226, 231, 237, 238-40, 243, 245, 251, 254, 259, 261, 264, 267, 268, 269, 272, 285, 286, 287, 296, 307, 308, 332, 403, 407

Palma Vecchio, 343

Panætius, 250, 408

Pandora, 408

Paolo, a dutiful son, 196

Paolo Romano, 333

Paredes, Diego Garcia de, 371

Parentucelli, Tommaso,—see Nicholas V

Paris, the “noble school” of, (the Sorbonne), 57, 346-7

Paris and the three goddesses, 172, 387

Parmesan, the battle fought in the, i.e., the battle of Fornovo, 117, 360

Passano, Giambattista, (I Novellieri Italiani), 417

Passavant, 342

Passions, to be tempered, not extirpated, 257-8

Past, declared to be inferior to the present, 79

Paul, St., 129, 308, 363

Paul III, 317, 369

Paullus, Simon, 421

Paulus, Lucius Æmilius, 69, 351

Pausanias, 390

Pavia, the battle of, 376, 387 the Bishop of,—see Pavia, the Cardinal of the Cardinal of, (Francesco Alidosi), 146, 151, 314, 319, 368, 375

Payne, Olive, 421

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