Part 132

Pius II (Æneas Silvius Piccolomini), 361

Pius III (Francesco Todeschini), 126, 361

Plato, 5, 63, 78, 181, 269, 284, 285, 286, 308, 313, 345, 364, 370, 391, 409, 415

Plato’s “Laws,” 388 Phædo, 356 “Republic,” 269, 279, 324, 388, 409 “Symposium,” 391

Plautus, 44, 340, 363

Plautus’s Menæchmi, 321 Trinummus, 336

Pleasantries: beginning of the discussion on, 120; classified, 126; cruelty to be avoided in, 135-6

Pliny, 349, 351, 391

Plotinus, 308, 416

Plutarch, 356, 364, 389, 391, 393, 408, 411, 412, 414

Plutarch’s “Apothegms and Famous Sayings of Spartan Women,” 393 “Concerning Women’s Virtue,” 390, 392-3 “How to Tell Friend from Flatterer,” 348 “Life of Alexander the Great,” 401 “Life of Camillus,” 392 “Life of Lucullus,” 389 “On Garrulity,” 390 “On the Ignorant Prince,” 409

Podestà, explanation of the word, 360

Poetry, the courtier to be versed in, 59

Poisoned cannon shot, story about, 130

Poland, the King of, 132

Poliphilian words, 235

Politian,—see Poliziano

Poliziano, 51, 320, 327, 344-5

Pollux, 404

Pompey (Pompeius), Cneius, 58, 346, 347, 378 Sextus, 192, 193

Pontormo, 358

Pontremolo, Gianluca da,—see Gianluca

Pontus, 264

Ponzio, Caio Caloria, 161-2, 383

Popes, play upon the names of two, 126-7

Porcaro, Antonio, 138, 367, 370 Camillo, 140, 141, 367, 370 Valerio, 367

Porcia, 190, 389

Porta, Domenico dalla, 151