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Publius Licinius Crassus Mucianus, 101-2, 358

Pulci, Luigi, 365

Puns, instances of, 126-7, 134-5, 137-9

Purifying influence of love, 219

Purism of speech deprecated, 52

Pygmalion, 175, 388

Pylades, 106, 358

Pyramids of Egypt said to have been built in order to keep the Egyptians busy, 267

Pythagoras, 90, 171, 357

Pythagoreans, the, 356

Quack, story of the peasant who had lost an eye and consulted a, 150

Qualities of the courtier, how to be employed, 81 et seq.

Rabani, Vettor de’, 419

Racine, 367

Raibolini, Francesco, better known as Francia, 332

Raleigh, Professor Walter, 316, 422

Rampazzetto, Francesco, 420

Rangone, Count Ercole, 139, 369

Raphael, 2, 50, 66, 67, 149, 313, 321, 333, 342-3, 378, 410, 411, 415

Ravenna, the battle of, 378, 379

Recitative, 89

Regio, Raffaele, 367

Reinhardstöttner’s article on the German translations of THE COURTIER, 417

Remondini, 421

Remus, 378

René of Provence, 375, 395

Renier, Rodolfo, 373, 399

Reputation: a courtier to be preceded by his, 110; the influence of, 112

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