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Pazzi, Gianotto de’, 151, 378 Giovanni de’, 378 Rafaello de’, 150-1, 378

Peace, the arts of war no more glorious than those of, 265-6

Pedrada, Sallaza dalla, 140, 370

Pelagio, Guido del, 374

Peleus, 284, 387, 414

Penalties for crime, preventive rather than punitive, 253

Pepoli, the Count of, 139, 369

Peralta, Captain Luijse Galliego de, 152, 379

Pergamus, 358

Periander of Corinth, 408

Pericles, 208, 391, 402, 403

Persecutions endured by girls at their lovers’ hands, 216-8

Perseus, King of Macedon, 351, 392

Persia: Alexander the Great’s conquest of, 103; the King of (in the time of Themistocles), 275; the Sophi King of,—see Ismail Sufi I

Persians defeated in battle, story of their wives’ rebuke, 201

Personal attention, princes’ need to attend personally to the execution of their commands, 265

Personal service, the perfect courtier not busied with, 174

Perugia, two cousins who fought at, 30

Perugino, 342

Pescara, the Marchioness of,—see Colonna, Vittoria the Marquess of, 319, 322

“Peter Piper,” 365

Petrarch, 41, 42, 44, 49, 50, 51, 52, 220, 323, 339, 345, 348, 383, 404, 405

Petrarch’s Trionfo d’Amore, 340

Phædra, a character in Seneca’s Hippolytus, 367

Phèdre, a tragedy by Racine, 367

Philip of Austria, 413

Philip of Burgundy, 387

Philip of Macedon, 34, 143, 374, 414

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