Part 133

Portalegre, Diego de Silva, Count of, 317

Porto, 274, 410

Portugal, Eleanora of, 396 Elizabeth of, 387 Emanuel I of, 133, 364 John III of, 317

Portuguese mariners, discoveries by the, 133

Porzio,—see Porcaro

Poseidon, 349, 411

Potenza, the Bishop of, (Giacopo di Nino di Ameria), 135, 365

Pozzuoli, 274, 410

Practical jokes, instances of, 155-62

Practice vs. precept, 267-8

Praise, to be modestly disclaimed, 60

Prato, 131, 363

Praxiteles’s “Hermes,” 387

Precept vs. practice, 267-8

Prefect of Rome,—see Rovere, Francesco Maria della

Près, Josquin de, 113, 359

Present, declared to be superior to the past, 79

Primero, or primiera, a game of cards, 382

Princes: courtiers’ intercourse with, 93-102102; courtiers not to intrude upon the privacy of, 95; to deserve their favour is the best way of gaining it, 96; a picture of the perfect prince, 261-72; evils endured by tyrannical princes, 263-4

Procella, fury or storm, 94, 357

Procrustes, 275, 411

Prometheus, 252, 408

Proto da Lucca, 137, 366

Protogenes, 37, 69, 338

Provençal: Boccaccio’s use of, 4; fallen into decay in the author’s time, 49

Provence, René of, 375, 395

Provincial flavour, not necessarily a blemish in literary style, 47

Ptolemy, 389