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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