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Philip V of Macedon, 200, 392

Phœnix, 284, 414

Phrigio,—see Frisio

Phrisio,—see Frisio

Phryne, 402

Physiognomists, who read a man’s character and thoughts in his face, 294

Pia, Alda, 394 Emilia, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 32, 53, 54, 66, 72, 93, 119, 122, 123, 130, 131, 136, 144, 167-8, 169-70, 186, 189, 190, 191, 200, 226, 228, 229, 230, 231, 241, 269, 273, 281, 288, 307, 308, 309, 322, 329, 332, 334, 352, 361, 403, 414

Pianella, Count, (Giacomo d’Atri), 142, 373-4

Piazza d’Agone at Rome, 249, 407

Piccinino, Niccolò, 77, 355-6

Piccolomini, Æneas Silvius,—see Pius II

Pierpaolo, 36

Pietro Antonio da Vinci (Leonardo’s father), 341

Pietro da Napoli, 12, 62, 93

Piety towards God, princes’ need of, 270

Pindar, 197, 391

Pinturicchio, 351

Pio, Alberto, 329, 332, 394 Alda,—see Pia Emilia,—see Pia Giberto, 329 Leonello, 332 Ludovico, 12, 62, 99, 114, 332, 395 Marco, 329

Pio family, eulogy of the women of the, 202

Piombo, Sebastiano del,—see Luciani

Pippi, Giulio, called Romano, 314

Pirithous, 106, 358

Pisa: story of a soldier wounded at, 27; story of a merchant of, rescued from Barbary pirates, 195-7

Pisan war, story about Florentine methods of raising funds for, 130-1

Pisan women, bravery of, 205

Pistoia, 131, 363

Pistoia (Antonio Cammelli), 142, 373

Pittacus of Mitylene, 408

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